8/16/19

We played Marseilles the other day in this tiny club called La Salle Gueule. It a two level club that can’t be more than 800 square feet total and that includes the toilet and stairs. The shows are down in the basement, a windowless cave that is a sweat factory as soon as six people are in it. I had a sport-coat on...

We were last on a bill of three. First off was a trio of folks from Russia!!  I wish I could remember their name (not that I could spell it if I did....) they were down here on holiday and were added to the bill last minute. Did some really nice noise rock I was digging hard. At least for the three songs I saw... sweaty in that jacket. 

The Dirtees were next. Apparently they lost their drummer a while back and they’ve been playing with a drum machine for the last month. It wworked! Rockin stuff with a lot of energy. But I was able to make it for three tunes. 

We went up and it was pretty crowded. We had a great set. The crowd was really into it. At the end the floor was soaked with sweat. The humidity in the room must have been 90%. I was drenched through. I went outside and took off my shirt to cool down. When My body dried off I put it back on and was freezing. After we watched a dozen or so rats running around the street. Huge fuckers that did not care. Marseilles!

8/15/19

Yesterday was pretty much a day off. We drove from Bilbao us to Toulouse in France to hang with our buddy Misty White. And by “we drove” I mean our driver Flo did the driving. He’s a really cool guy that grew up in Columbia and moved to Europe twentyish years ago for work. We are lucky to have him. 

So we end up at Misty’s place and hang for a bit.  She had contacted the local radio station about having us on to play. And even though we don’t have a show here they had us on!!

99.2 Radio Canal Sud has a nice little studio and they were playing lots of good rock and roll before it was our turn. Did three tunes sitting around a desk. It was pretty frenetic but fun. Good day off!