Bags With Homing Beacons

So after a show in Luxembourg with Queens Of The Stone Age and the Hives. It was off to Helsinki for our only indoor show of the tour and of course it was a beautiful day out while we were stuck inside. Typical eh!!

We flew from Luxembourg to Copenhagen to Helsinki and unfortunately our bags didnt. They eventually caught up with us the next morning just before we were about to go back to the airport.

The show was at the Ice Hall Arena which holds about 9,000 people. We had 3 local support bands as well, one of which had the most insanely thick hair ive ever seen. Its not 1987 and we're not in LA and your not Motley Crue Damnit!!!


I swaer to god that is real!!!

I also met a sound engineer who was kind of uptight about his chair been "Borrowed"



So, after picking up my bag at checkout it was back to the airport to fly from Helsinki to Copenhagen to Kristiansand in Norway. And guess what....thats right they lost our bags again. Well Lost is an unfair term implying they didnt know where they were. i knew where it was as i got to see it sitting on the tarmac while we taxi'ed away from the gate. Bloody propeller planes. This time we didnt have the luxury of having a hotel to deliver them to as we were back on the Bus to drive to belgium that night. Luckily the bags were delivered to us on the festival site just 20 mins before we had to leave.

After a 10 hour drive and a 6 hour ferry we stopped in Hamburg for the night and hit the famous Reeperbahn. This was where the Beatles got theyre start and it hasnt changed much i can tell you.
I did mange to find the most well presented Burger King i think ive ever seen.


it amazes me that someone would allow a burger joint to be built ina nice building like this. Surely there is a better use for it.
Now im one to call "Shenanigans" too often but i think this shop is slightly guilty of false advertising.


And anyway i dont think he wears Tag Heuer.


Onwards we went to the Werchter festival in Belgium which is for my money the best run festival in the world. Everything both backstage and out front is fantastically organised. Its also somewhere i go every year and find a huge lighting rig to play with.


Also today we played with Keane and Peter Gabriel.


While Gabriels set wasnt probably best seen at a festival in front of an impartial crowd, you cant argue when he plays "Solisbury Hill" and "Sledghammer" back to back. I had a brief encounter with him backstage and he seems like a very nice guy. No security teams or hordes of assistants around him which was very refreshing to see.

So, now its the 14 hour drive to Prague as the sound of the Chemical Brothers drifts away behind us from the stage.