Day Four – Trieste

Another heavy travel day: Bratislava through Austria and Slovenia to Italy. Some stunning scenery along the way and something particularly awesome about driving through mountain clouds with Black Sabbath playing. Soundtrack of my life. Rolled up in plenty of time at the great venue. The crew were amazingly hospitable and helpful. Great sound, great crowd, …

Day Three…Bratislava

Excellent venue 🙂    Met up with Operation:Mondcrime and the duo Fire and Water (who are absolutely fantastic). Anyway, local crew and promoter were very very nice as we’re all the band people. Ingo is TM; we met before on tour 🙂    Gig went very well – great crowd who were awesome to us. …

Day Two…

Driving…driving…driving. We left Stuttgart and chewed up the miles; past MĂĽnchen to the Austrian border near Passau. Huge traffic jam the other way as the Polizei had a roadblock up, but we sailed through. Then just hammered through the length of Austria to Slovakia. Now in the hotel in Bratislava – cool little place, with …

Day One…

Early start from London; 7am out the door – early ferry from Dover to Calais. It’s great to be back in France, though strange to see the extra barbed wire and police units everywhere; not to mention sprawling camp next to the port. Anyway, we hared along the coastal road in France to Belgium, through …

Tour Diary…kind of

Yes, I know…we’re not on tour yet. But we are gearing up for it so it’s as good a time as any to start waffling about the upcoming shows. It’ll be nice being back in mainland Europe. The last time I played anywhere over the Channel was with the last incarnation of Iron Knights at Swordbrother’s Festival. …