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Crack

MESSINA support tour for Friska Viljor started! We got to play Ante Festival on a little hill in Winterthur. Home turf. Best way to start off an international tour. At one point it was so windy I was convinced the concert would be cancelled before we could play. Wouldn‘t have been the first time. Anyway having to say goodbye to friends, family and loved ones was easier by playing a show for them first. Plus we got to play in between Ginger And The Alchemists and Sirens Of Lesbos which made it all the more enjoyable.

Lighthouse

One last dinner with all the girlfriends before we head out on the road. During the dinner we get a mail, that because of a storm there’s been damage to the first venue and the first gig is cancelled. We leave at 22:00 from Winterthur and head up to Rostock. We arrive at 9:30. Mirco and Fabian drive us up and take the bus back and we get on the nightliner bus with Friska Viljor.

Hobby Horsing

Because the venue was damaged by a storm, we had an off day in Rostock. What does one do in Rostock on a Sunday. Not much. Start drinking at noon, get forced into watching the liverpool wolverhampton match and eat at the Braugasthaus zum alten Fritz, where every meal is somehow beerinfused. Even the Crème Brûlée is made with dark beer.

Freitag

Half asleep we pack, get into our bus and head to Hamburg. The venue is called Übel und Gefährlich. It’s inside a Flak tower. Built during world war two, it now finally fulfills a good purpose.

Badi

My first night sleeping in a nightliner was horrible. When i stretch myself, my head and feet touch my coffin like bed and the ceiling hight was constructed for tall people in the 1680s. Sleep deprived I zombie walked around Berlin, trying to get rid of my headache with pills and water bottle after water bottle. Raphi took the best picture of that day of me, in front of an abandoned football stadium. Gian and I also went to Pauls Boutique. The amount of clothes stuffed into this thrift store would make sardines in a crushed tin box feel claustrophobic.

Böögg

Well rested I woke up in Munich. Tour life is a constant back and forth of being tired and awake, happy and grumpy, focused and disorganised, social and antisocial. I had heard that there was an Alec Soth exhibition at the kunstfoyer, so Raphi and I headed over there. All 5 of his Projects were on display. Afterwards we met a man bringing a pigeon to the vet. I love the tourlife.

Engromarkt

Züritipp

Footage missing. I was told, a rather small italian man was seen sneaking into the tourbus and erased all the photos of that day from my computer.

Velo WM

What’s the difference between swimming laps in a pool and swimming from one side of a lake to another. It’s the same distance. The difference is the little rest after every lap, even if it’s just inside your head. It’s the same way with a tour. You never have that little rest of being at home. After a while where you are, what day it is and even what time of day it is disolves to an extent. So it was incredibly comforting to get home for a few hours. Lie down in an actual bed, repack (I had packed two cameras and about six lenses and realized I only needed the Fuji X100V), shave, shower, shit etc.

*some photos were shot by Olivia Kurz

Day 10: Salzburg - Hiding in a 2 x 1 x 0.60 meter box.

I always want to be honest and open with the people who take the time to actually look at the things I do and say. It’s not a given and I am greatful. So I will tell you that this was the hardest day. I was drained. Being more sensitive than average, always being around people, always being on the road and performing every night I hit a wall. I talked to raphi about something and tears started forming or no reason. So I spent every minute I could in my little bed, watching the fourth season of stranger things to just distract myself. At the end of the day I was fine again. Just needed to recharge my batteries.

*some photos were shot by Olivia Kurz

Day 11: Wien - “you’re coming out of THAT shower dirtier, than when you went in!”

Wien is beautiful place. Very clean and big. Which is the opposite of where we played that night. After spending the night on the bus you arrive at the location sweaty and hungry. You feel dirty most of the time on tour. The priorities on tour are (in order): Good buffet, good shower and a pleasant staff to make you feel welcome. So we were off to a bad start when we saw how dirty the shower was at flex. It was the architectual equivalent to syphilis and I wouldn’t have been surprized if there were trace amounts of syphilis scattered around the “room“.

One of the most important things to do as a support act is to move all of your stuff out of the way as quickly as possible, the minute your concert is over. And that is quite the challenge when you’re playing in a tiny venue with an even tinier backstage.

Because we were gonna spend the next day in wien, we decided to splurge on an airbnb and enjoy a real bed for a change.

Day 12: Off Day in Wien

It was a welldeserved and badly needed break from tour. When the budget is big enough you can afford more offdays on tour. John Mayer once said in an interview he likes to have an off day every other day to get to know the city and get some rest. Today was our only off day of the entire tour. We did what all hipster musicians do with too much time: Go thriftshopping, spend too much money on food because we went to the wrong place and I once again dragged the rest along to a museum. There was an Ai Wei Wei Exhibition at the Albertina Modern