19.10.2012 - Rendsburg, Germany
Overnight drive. As I wrote in my previous entry we left Paris around 3 am and took the road to Rendsburg, Germany. The distance between the two cities is around 1000 kms and we needed maybe 14 to 15 hours to arrive at our destination. The show was at T-Stube, a really nice venue at the heart of the city. It was in the middle of a big park with a river nearby. Our hosts were really nice and hospitable: they cooked us a delicious vegan ragou with potatoes and salad. Awesome!!! While they were cooking we walked around the city: it was 6pm and it was already very calm, almost dead... The shops were closed and there were no people on the streets. We ate after 7pm and a little bit after 9pm the show started. First played Planner, they sounded like a bad Discipline copy. Their mix of street punk and eurocore (think backfire, early discipline) sung in German was nothing special. They were really nice guys and we even slept at their bassist's place. Nine Eleven played next as it was getting late and they prefer to play before 10.30pm. They gave their best and at first look the 40 to 50 people present liked their music. This was confirmed at the end of the show at the merch table :) News at 11 went on stage after Nine Eleven and had the difficult task to headline the show. I went to the van to take a nap as I was really sleepy (I was the co-driver almost all night long and I started feeling the consequences). The band was playing a kind of energetic and melodic punk hardcore. It looks like the audience was having fun while I was resting. At one point I had to wake up and help the dudes to get the backline in the van. At the same time the promoter of the show was trying to figure out where we were going to sleep and a fight broke up between the guy supposed to host us and a girl. Apparently our host to be was some kind of sexist pig (this is what the locals told us, we didn't understand the argument due to our bad German). At the end we ended up at the house of Planner's bassist as a last minute plan. We arrived there and it was already 2 am and we had to get up very early the next morning. I went to sleep around 2.30 am.
20.10.2012 - Torun, Poland
We slept for a few hours (maybe 5) and woke up very early. Only the bravest from our small group of people took a shower as the water was cold. I should say I wasn't one of them. We left the sleeping house around 8 am and took the road to Torun, Poland. It was another day spent driving/travelling: almost 800 kms and maybe half ot them on the highway. We were all tired from the overnight drive and the time passed by very slowly in between sleeping, jokes and breaks for breakfast/lunch. We arrived at Torun around 6h30 pm. The city is very beautiful, with a river passing through it. We unloaded the backline and the merch and had a nice dinner. Then I just chilled with the guys and we took it easy on a Saturday night. I checked Momma Knows Best from the Czech Republic who played before Nine Eleven. They played metalcore and did a cover of every time I die. Then Nine Eleven took the stage and got the crowd moving. A few drunk dudes pogoed and a few hardcore kids moshed. Then it was time for the headliners of the night, Schizma, to take the stage and deliver their powerful metalcore ala hatebreed. I was really tired and not in the mood for such a hardcore attack so I just chilled at the merch. After the show was over we just stayed in the venue to party and went for a snack to a nearby grocery store. I went to bed earlier than the others and they had the pleasure to wake me up when they arrived kinda drunk and in a party mood an hour or two later at the hostel.
21.10.2012 - Warsaw, Poland
I woke up around noon on Sunday morning, One by one the dudes went to take a shower and we went to eat in a very nice vegetarian restaurant in the city center. We left Torun around 4pm and arrived just in time for the show in Warsaw. Unfortunately we didn't have any time to visit the city. We went straight to the venue, unloaded the gear and had some pizza while the 2 local bands were playing. One of them sounded like the early discipline albums but kinda worse. After the eurocore band came on stage a NYHC band who did a warzone cover. Next on stage were Momma Knows Best and they delivered again their metalcore while people seemed to enjoy their music. Nine Eleven were headlining the show and closed the evening in beauty! Their played a good set, a lot of energy and even some mosh and side to side moves :) After the show we went to sleep in an appartment in the city center and left very early the next morning.
22.10.2012 - Grodno, Belarus
We left Warsaw around 8 am and headed straight to the border with Belarus. A little bit before the border we stopped in a small town to change our zlotys in euros and buy some breakfast/lunch. We didn't get a lot of shit at the border but were they taking their time. We passed almost uneventfully (the customs' officer didn't even check the back of the van) if we don't count the time spent there. We needed 3 hours just to pass the border between Poland and Belarus. 20 minutes later we arrived in Grodno. The promoter came to pick us up from the city center (3 big buildings and two statues). The show was maybe 5 minutes away from the center by car. We arrived near a big communist type building and found the show was taking place in a kinda chic restaurant. The personnel moved the tables away and we set up the stage in the middle of the big room. The back stage was fucking cool as it was a private room with a big round table, an aquarium and a huge TV. We had a little bit of food and a tea/coffee and set up the merch in the entrance hall. People were really interested in the merch but very few of the kids spoke English. We managed to understand each other somehow :) When there's a will, there's a way... Two bands played before Nine Eleven. The first band was playing some kind of crust music and their drummer was the only person singing. They were cool and we saw them also the next day in Minsk. The second band was playing a melodic modern hardcore and I really liked the voice of their singer. He also did the most amazing thing on stage I've ever seen: he received an sms in the middle of the song and just read it on his phone while still singing!!! I laughed my ass off! Nine Eleven played in front of maybe 80 to 100 people and everybody was having fun. The people were really into them and got them to sign a lot of posters and even some passports at the end of the show. After the show was over (a dude tried to steal a shirt from Jerome but didn't manage to do it thanks to the help of one local kid) we packed the van and went to Julia's place where we were supposed to spend the night. A hot vegan dinner was waiting for us and we were very pleasantly surprised. After a hot shower and a hot meal I went to bed full and happy! Just like everybody else I guess.
Overnight drive. As I wrote in my previous entry we left Paris around 3 am and took the road to Rendsburg, Germany. The distance between the two cities is around 1000 kms and we needed maybe 14 to 15 hours to arrive at our destination. The show was at T-Stube, a really nice venue at the heart of the city. It was in the middle of a big park with a river nearby. Our hosts were really nice and hospitable: they cooked us a delicious vegan ragou with potatoes and salad. Awesome!!! While they were cooking we walked around the city: it was 6pm and it was already very calm, almost dead... The shops were closed and there were no people on the streets. We ate after 7pm and a little bit after 9pm the show started. First played Planner, they sounded like a bad Discipline copy. Their mix of street punk and eurocore (think backfire, early discipline) sung in German was nothing special. They were really nice guys and we even slept at their bassist's place. Nine Eleven played next as it was getting late and they prefer to play before 10.30pm. They gave their best and at first look the 40 to 50 people present liked their music. This was confirmed at the end of the show at the merch table :) News at 11 went on stage after Nine Eleven and had the difficult task to headline the show. I went to the van to take a nap as I was really sleepy (I was the co-driver almost all night long and I started feeling the consequences). The band was playing a kind of energetic and melodic punk hardcore. It looks like the audience was having fun while I was resting. At one point I had to wake up and help the dudes to get the backline in the van. At the same time the promoter of the show was trying to figure out where we were going to sleep and a fight broke up between the guy supposed to host us and a girl. Apparently our host to be was some kind of sexist pig (this is what the locals told us, we didn't understand the argument due to our bad German). At the end we ended up at the house of Planner's bassist as a last minute plan. We arrived there and it was already 2 am and we had to get up very early the next morning. I went to sleep around 2.30 am.
20.10.2012 - Torun, Poland
We slept for a few hours (maybe 5) and woke up very early. Only the bravest from our small group of people took a shower as the water was cold. I should say I wasn't one of them. We left the sleeping house around 8 am and took the road to Torun, Poland. It was another day spent driving/travelling: almost 800 kms and maybe half ot them on the highway. We were all tired from the overnight drive and the time passed by very slowly in between sleeping, jokes and breaks for breakfast/lunch. We arrived at Torun around 6h30 pm. The city is very beautiful, with a river passing through it. We unloaded the backline and the merch and had a nice dinner. Then I just chilled with the guys and we took it easy on a Saturday night. I checked Momma Knows Best from the Czech Republic who played before Nine Eleven. They played metalcore and did a cover of every time I die. Then Nine Eleven took the stage and got the crowd moving. A few drunk dudes pogoed and a few hardcore kids moshed. Then it was time for the headliners of the night, Schizma, to take the stage and deliver their powerful metalcore ala hatebreed. I was really tired and not in the mood for such a hardcore attack so I just chilled at the merch. After the show was over we just stayed in the venue to party and went for a snack to a nearby grocery store. I went to bed earlier than the others and they had the pleasure to wake me up when they arrived kinda drunk and in a party mood an hour or two later at the hostel.
21.10.2012 - Warsaw, Poland
I woke up around noon on Sunday morning, One by one the dudes went to take a shower and we went to eat in a very nice vegetarian restaurant in the city center. We left Torun around 4pm and arrived just in time for the show in Warsaw. Unfortunately we didn't have any time to visit the city. We went straight to the venue, unloaded the gear and had some pizza while the 2 local bands were playing. One of them sounded like the early discipline albums but kinda worse. After the eurocore band came on stage a NYHC band who did a warzone cover. Next on stage were Momma Knows Best and they delivered again their metalcore while people seemed to enjoy their music. Nine Eleven were headlining the show and closed the evening in beauty! Their played a good set, a lot of energy and even some mosh and side to side moves :) After the show we went to sleep in an appartment in the city center and left very early the next morning.
22.10.2012 - Grodno, Belarus
We left Warsaw around 8 am and headed straight to the border with Belarus. A little bit before the border we stopped in a small town to change our zlotys in euros and buy some breakfast/lunch. We didn't get a lot of shit at the border but were they taking their time. We passed almost uneventfully (the customs' officer didn't even check the back of the van) if we don't count the time spent there. We needed 3 hours just to pass the border between Poland and Belarus. 20 minutes later we arrived in Grodno. The promoter came to pick us up from the city center (3 big buildings and two statues). The show was maybe 5 minutes away from the center by car. We arrived near a big communist type building and found the show was taking place in a kinda chic restaurant. The personnel moved the tables away and we set up the stage in the middle of the big room. The back stage was fucking cool as it was a private room with a big round table, an aquarium and a huge TV. We had a little bit of food and a tea/coffee and set up the merch in the entrance hall. People were really interested in the merch but very few of the kids spoke English. We managed to understand each other somehow :) When there's a will, there's a way... Two bands played before Nine Eleven. The first band was playing some kind of crust music and their drummer was the only person singing. They were cool and we saw them also the next day in Minsk. The second band was playing a melodic modern hardcore and I really liked the voice of their singer. He also did the most amazing thing on stage I've ever seen: he received an sms in the middle of the song and just read it on his phone while still singing!!! I laughed my ass off! Nine Eleven played in front of maybe 80 to 100 people and everybody was having fun. The people were really into them and got them to sign a lot of posters and even some passports at the end of the show. After the show was over (a dude tried to steal a shirt from Jerome but didn't manage to do it thanks to the help of one local kid) we packed the van and went to Julia's place where we were supposed to spend the night. A hot vegan dinner was waiting for us and we were very pleasantly surprised. After a hot shower and a hot meal I went to bed full and happy! Just like everybody else I guess.
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