Thursday, 14 April 2011

"das Zelt" with Kirsty

Hi y'all

Last week was lots of fun! I was playing with Kirsty at "das Zelt" in Zurich.

Line up:
Kirsty Bertarelli v
Claudia Fontaine bv
Leyla Stuber bv
Kilian Haiber keys
Eric Mandango guit, tattoos ;-)
Dave Troke b
me, myself and I dr

On Monday, Claudia, Aidy (Hall), Dave, Tom (Nichols), Steve (Lyall) and me flew from London with the 8.50am Swiss flight to Geneva. Listening to Aidy on how busy Heathrow would be on a Monday morning, him and I got there at 6.50am. Well, this airport might be busy on some Monday mornings, but on this one it was like a ghost town. Check in and security was done in 10 minutes (rounded up) and so we found ourselves 2h early having breakfast at the airport. (Thanks Aidy for having me get up at 5.30am... ;-)
A driver was waiting for us at Geneva airport and drove us to the rehearsal room at Dynamec Studios in Gland.

Everything was already set up, so after a sound check we were ready to play.
To your right, you see Eric with his new (and removable...) tattoos. Funny man, I tell you.
From l to r, me, Aidy, Dave (the three brave amigos)

On Wednesday evening we boarded a bus that took us to Zurich and after a good night of sleep, we were ready for soundcheck. We were, but the desk for the stage sound and in-ears wasn't...
After the fastest swap that I've ever witnessed, we were ready to rock n' roll with a new one... give thanks to our engineers Neal Allen and Graham White!!!

Seconds before the gig.


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