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The first week of our touring relationship with editors has come and gone so quickly, mostly because it has been very good and highly enjoyable. We started in gent, belgium where we were very, very late due to traffic. We finally made it to the gig 5 minutes before our stage time. "Cripes!" I thought. "What a terrible first impression to make, editors will hate us forever" i fretted. That couldnt have been further from the truth, they are all top fellas. Gig went fine, watched editors, they were good. I tried to get up on the balcony and trod on someones hand, oops. Next day we were off to Utrecht, a beautiful and tranquil city with all the character of holland's more famous destinations but without the sex crazed stoned wankers. Our ex-pat friend richard foster was present and supplied us with literature, music and some rather smokeable afgan cannabis resin, yum yum. Next it was off to bielfeld, germany. We got a bit lost on the way in so tom went in to a record shop called Ween. The shop front was even adorned with Weens logo. Seeing as most of us are big Ween fans we found this extremely amusing. It was only that morning that we had been watching a Ween live dvd too! The venue was tucked away in an industrial estate, had a fusball table and a yo la tengo poster in the toilet. These things made me happy. Pre gig, i was sitting next to our merchandise table with keith and waynne when a girl ran up and started staring at our flyer. "Are they a rakes covers band?" she said. We all found this very funny, "No!" i said. She looked at me, looked at the flyer and in almost comical fashion had a double take moment before running off in embarrasment after realising who i was. I felt a bit sorry for her. There was a gaggle of british barracks kids present. Apparently their school gives them tickets once a month to go out so they dont get bored. They certainly made our night, they all went suitably mental during our set even though they didnt know who the hell we were. The long drive to Malmo, sweden was something i was looking forward to. We drove up past hamburg, into denmark and across the biggest bridge in europe. It was very bad weather and it felt like we were driving into the sea. We made it to malmo with not much time so no soundcheck for us. We did well considering but it was quite hard work. Another long drive faced us the next day. Waynne was concerned as it had been snowing the previous night but it had stopped soon after we went to bed. It was a magical journey through fjords and heavy unspoiled snow planes. We bumped into richard hawley at a service station, failed to speak to the man himself but his crew were very friendly. Stockholm was bitingly cold, we made it there in good time and managed to fit in everything into our schedule. There was an in-store at a quality record shop called pet sounds, it sounded good and we were surprised to have a few fans there. Sweden is a notoriously hard place to do well in, and having not had the best reaction the night before we were nervous about the gig. Id been to debaser a few years ago, it is a nice venue and i really wanted it to go well so as not to taint my happy memories of the place. It turned out to be the best show so far for us. The audience needed a little encouragement to step forward and fill the gap but once everyone was involved it was lush. Got highly pissed afterwards and cant quite remember certain details. Woke up thinking it was the middle of the night because our rooms were underground and have no windows, it was actually ten past nine. I'm now wondering where everyone is as we have another long drive today, off to oslo!
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