Chez Paulette – Toul wed 6th of May

A cab picked up me and all our instruments outside our rehearsal place 4.30 in the morning. Then we picked up all the other girls and backline tech Tomten at the central station, and then we headed off for Arlanda airport. Everything went surprisingly smooth. They didn’t even charged us for the instruments, just put a blue sticker on each and then let us pass through.
The flight went fine, and we arrived 40 minutes ahead of schedule and took 2 cabs to the Paris est train station where we had a quick coffee and sandwich before it was time to jump on the train to Nancy. After we arrived we had a short walk to the hotel, where we got a well needed rest for 2 hours before it was time for sound check. At 4 we were picked up by a shuttle and went to Chez Paulettes. We played there 4 years ago with American Dog so we already knew the place.
It took pretty long to sound check, we were using the support acts backline (Seyminhol; thanks for letting us play on your stuff! ) and it took a long time to set it our way. But as soon as the set up was ok, the sound check went fast. Then we went for dinner at a restaurant and then back again to warm up before the gig. Old memories from our gig here with American Dog 2005!!

It was pretty crowded at our gig and it went really well, even though the amp they had rented for us sounded like shit… After the gig we tried to cool down a few minutes but it was difficult, ‘cause our dressing room was just a 2 m2 big hole in the wall with a curtain, so people just walked in there all the time. Since there were no showers we had to wash ourselves with some stuff I brought with me, meant to wipe baby asses with.. better than nothing….

Then we went out to the crowd to say hello, take some pictures and sign stuff. Unfortunately we didn’t have any cd’s with us, because of misunderstandings between our recordlabels or something, any way out of our hands. It is always fun to meet the people after the show but this night it became a bit stressful, some people were really too much and I almost freaked out once. But then it’s great to have these nice people around as well who just takes it easy and behave good. We really appreciate that and it makes it worth to go out.

the nice people!!

If people continues acting crazy as some did this night, we won’t be able to go out and meet the fans after the shows ‘cause it’s just too stressful. We’ll see what happens tomorrow… :-) Paris here we come!

/Mia
Crucified Barbara

(more pictures will be added later!)