For the first weekend of April a Hungarian mini-tour was planned and organized by Jack guys (Hungarian Punkgrind commando) for Bombatölcsér. We were really waiting for this event and everything was arranged for it to be a perfect weekend (even the van was rented). Then one day before Tereza, our vokillist got seriously ill, she had a temperature of 39°C, so we had to cancel the journey in the very last moment. For the Budapest show, they still needed a foreign band instead of Bomba... so why not? I took a try with Morsa, and within some minutes everyone set themselves free for that weekend and we were ready to go in an instant...:)
Saturday morning we needed a fast practice as having had no gigs since January, we were concentrating almost only on writing new songs - at that time I already had a strange feeling, but was sure it is purely the aftermath of the night of drinking at Přísnotice (there was a show with local bands there). By arriving to Budapest (cca 7pm) it was certain that I caught some illness causing coughing, fever, chills and headache... First we went to the accommodation, where Kristóf, our host was waiting for us... with his 2 dogs at least 20 reptiles in a small studio-flat! After some welcome drinks he ensured us, none of the reptiles will eacape from their terrariums, and we will have a pleasant night - fortunately he was right, I would not be glad to meet his newest acquisition in the dark of the night: a some-week-young anaconda, which seemed to keep its terrirory aggressively, by our luck just behind the glasswall. We have finished our meal (excellent soy roast a la Basov) and some more drinks (me just tea this time) and was high time we went to the venue.
Finding a parking place was not easy, being the concert in the centre of the Hungarian capital, with narrow, one-way streets, so we missed the first two local bands, and got to the club only for the first moments of Do You Think I Care? - good, D-beat infected band by some ex-members of Gyalázat. After them Jack came with an intensive show, then the Brazilian bands Defy and Subterror, which I saw two days before in Brno and they offered the same, though due to my feeling more and more ill, I could not enjoy their sets that much. It was half past one when we were to go on stage, and someone from the bar told us we should be fast - they were to stop the live music within 20 minutes....Uhhhh... that would be enough for our short programme, but we need approximately the same amount of time to prepare everything for the show, to have sound-check etc. Furthermore, it turned out that none of the bands before had two toms, so I also had to use only one... It is like playing with a guitar one string less, but there was not time to find any solution, so even without soundcheck , we started our set and rushed through all the 6+1 songs. Apart from the sound with the drums pushed a bit aback and the vocal in front, people seemed to have enjoyed our noise. You can find some minutes of each band of that night here .
There was some afterparty at Kristóf's flat, which I just took part agonizing, with him and Filip listening to some really noisy 7"EPs from his collection. The reptiles might have been kept away from us by this, next morning all of us woke up in one piece, uneaten by any of his snakes:)
Finding a parking place was not easy, being the concert in the centre of the Hungarian capital, with narrow, one-way streets, so we missed the first two local bands, and got to the club only for the first moments of Do You Think I Care? - good, D-beat infected band by some ex-members of Gyalázat. After them Jack came with an intensive show, then the Brazilian bands Defy and Subterror, which I saw two days before in Brno and they offered the same, though due to my feeling more and more ill, I could not enjoy their sets that much. It was half past one when we were to go on stage, and someone from the bar told us we should be fast - they were to stop the live music within 20 minutes....Uhhhh... that would be enough for our short programme, but we need approximately the same amount of time to prepare everything for the show, to have sound-check etc. Furthermore, it turned out that none of the bands before had two toms, so I also had to use only one... It is like playing with a guitar one string less, but there was not time to find any solution, so even without soundcheck , we started our set and rushed through all the 6+1 songs. Apart from the sound with the drums pushed a bit aback and the vocal in front, people seemed to have enjoyed our noise. You can find some minutes of each band of that night here .
There was some afterparty at Kristóf's flat, which I just took part agonizing, with him and Filip listening to some really noisy 7"EPs from his collection. The reptiles might have been kept away from us by this, next morning all of us woke up in one piece, uneaten by any of his snakes:)
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