The question is when? So after the fizzy cheese party ( my goodness it was fizzy and cheesy) the band has finally run out of steam,and no ammount of apfelwein, jagermiester, holy serbian saint juice or delicious food from Karl Bumb was going to reanimate the shattered remnants of the icebreakers former selves. So we packed and cleared up the sausage fest of a basement we have been sleeping in and promptly found or more accuratly didn,t find toms passport. CAPTAIN CHAOS STRIKES AGAIN. At one point it was looking like 600 kilometers to munich for a new one and maybe back on xmas eve. Panic, tears,curses,german phone calls and a rush to the airport where we skillfully managed to push past 200 people in a cue and get through security,blagged a German passport for tom, buy some grog loads of smokes, and erdnuss flips and have a vigerous search by a sadistic german millitry police woman ( she wasn,t gentle , didn,t even get me drink).
So now here we are looking out the window waiting for our delayed flight to go, and all I can think of is die hard YIPPIEKAIYAAAAAMUTHERFUCKERS
The joy of a tuned piano,acoustic instruments and 2 old ribbon mics. Great sessions in the basement with our old school recording technique, we will post them up soon, its just like the 50s. We recorded some tracks with our new friends jazmine and richard who wrote a great rock n roll song about rockabilly haircuts. The infestation of the terrible evil blight that is the xmas market was actualy started in this country, so we had to go and visit one. All I can say is meat good gluwien good firesangboller good but missing this time and we managed to get the goose his first haxe. Also found that calvados with apricots that re not apricots but apparently a peach pple hybrid go down very well.
Fizzy cheese party tommorow, bring the pain
Boudoir session day 2 with Jasmin, Richard and Marc on Magic Lemon… Hairstyler!
Tom, the Goose, Jim and Paul De Gaul in front of Karl Bumb’s (Steve’s parents best friends) gourmet butcher shop…
Well well who knew 2 long island ice tea was the required dose to make paul do the paul white dance. Snow days in frankfurt, rock,n,roll recording session, schwienshaxe then the goose showed up all the way from toronto and mark reintroduced me to the beatles (remasters amazing like hearing songs you know but for the 1st time). Oh and we ate reindeer paste and dubios coch kasse.
Ok so we got in at 11 went to shop got applewien, picked up double bass and amp from our friend Richard,keys from our friend Timo, borrowed guitarstuff from Kayvan and was lent an amazing kit from Nico. Thanks FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE guys. we ate kartoffle salad mit wurst and baumkuchen spitzen, then did a radio show on x fm and got to Driekonnegskeller for 8sound check. The place rocks and has an Elvis shribe and its amazing how smoking in a Bar makes it cool sonehow. We hit the stage at 10PM and did 19 songs for an hour and a half Thanks to everyone that Made it brought t shirts ,albums, merch or booze for the band ,dispite the massive snow drifts and thanks to mrs K for the door. More nonsense tommorow love the Icebreakers
We arrived safely in Frankfurt and are rehearsing in Stevan’s boudoir for gig, Radio & recording…
5.30am start to get to terminal 5 and the seafood bar for gin and tonics on ba to frankfurt
Rubbish breakfast with good ale. More gin on the plane, apple wine when we get in. Now to go and find some instruments for the weeks activities.
we are playing a live acoustic session on Frankfurt’s Radio X tomorrow evening (16.12.2010) at 6.30pm before our show at the Dreikönigskeller, check it out on FM or via online streaming… http://www.radiox.de/
Don’t forget that we are playing at the Dreikönigskeller in Frankfurt am Main, Germany this Thursday, the 16.12.2010, it’s going to be der Überhammer! Doors open at 21h and we should be on stage around 22h, entry is 5 Euros, be there or be square!
