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Post by delorentos on Nov 30, 2006 18:52:27 GMT
day 7: Killarney INEC, Kerry We woke up in Galway, drank some tea and then hit the road to Killarney. Its longer than you'd think... although, we did get to drive through Gort for the second time in three days which is always good. Arrived at our hostel in Killarney.. had a lie down.. (when will we learn that drinking solidily every night for a week is a terrible idea? never? oh, ok...) then off to the INEC, to our deadly dressing room under the stage. After a short soundcheck we went on around 7.45.. at the start there were only a handful.. but it soon filled up (thanks to everyone who did!) and it was fun too. people were calling out for "Basis Of Everything", but we'd decided to omit it in favour of new ones... we had a quick onstage commitee meeting and decided to press ahead without... (sorry...!) Afterwards outside we met lots of youngfellas, two of which pinched our backstage passes and tried to blag into bell x1's dressing room, eventually ending up on the STAGE going "where's bell x1? we're with Delorentos! take us to bell x1!" with ten bemused road crew looking quizzically at each other... heh... Anyway.. afterwards we treated ourselves to a nice chinese and then we went drinking.... for a change. That Shane McGowan never had a chance. (interesting Bell x1 fact: Brian plays the keys and lead guitar at the same time in one song, very impressive...) K
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Post by Mully on Dec 1, 2006 8:29:54 GMT
What time are you on at tonight (Point) ?
Don't want to be missing it.
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Post by delorentos on Dec 1, 2006 13:07:06 GMT
good day we're due onstage at 1930. Ro.
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Post by aspiration on Dec 1, 2006 13:18:05 GMT
Hey ye forgot the Cork gig!! Tell us about the Cork gig god damnit!!
Soph
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Post by delorentos on Dec 1, 2006 14:12:07 GMT
day 8: The Savoy, Cork Ouch. I think we were supposed to check out of our hostel room at 10.30, but really, that was never gonna happen. Around lunchtime we dragged ourselves out of bed and into the local greasy spoon for a fry. (note to self: never eat a fry again in a place which claims to be "shortly closing indefinitely". hmmnn...). Eventually got on the road to Cork and booked into Sheilas hostel overlooking the city. The Savoy is on the main street, Patrick Street, so no soundchecks can start before 6. Which is bad news for us... when it comes to setting up we end up rushing through it... go upstairs, do a setlist and quickly return to the stage... Cork was one of the gigs i most looked forward to, but there wasn't a massive crowd, i didn't get my sound set up well enough, and our snare broke just as we felt we were warming up... The crowd was small at first but gradually grew and we put our heads down and played as best as we could... i hope everyone that came early enjoyed it sorry about the sound probs, we did our best! Its tough being the support act, first on, early starts, for these shows, its no-ones fault, its the nature of the beast i suppose. I'd like to think we're making the most of it anyway, we try to play our best at every gig regardless of crowd.. and hopefully a few folks leave enjoying it. I think we could be annoyed by it, but the fact that the Bell x1 lads and the crew are so accomodating and good to us we haven't got any problem. Anyway, everything is a learning curve, and i think we're better at setting ourselves up and looking after ourselves quickly without a fuss as a result of this tour. Afterwards we went to the brog and swapped clothes with people. Nial looks quite fetching in a ladies red satin top, y'know... and drank. Oh yes dear reader. Thank god we've a day off tomorrow... (Interesting Bell x1 fact: When they come off stage before their encore they all drink a glass of orange juice and won't go back out until they've answered five trival pursuit questions. Dom's the sport expert, while Dave will only answer the History ones....)
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Post by delorentos on Dec 2, 2006 19:17:05 GMT
day 10: The Point Depot, Dublin. I woke up in Cork, in Sheila's, and quickly realised i broke one of my teeth from drunken escapades last night. rock and roll eh? ah well. So then we went down to the rental car, and discovered that the window was wide open all night. Through the torrential night rain. So, Kieran sat on plastic bags all the way to dublin and got a wet bum. This never happened to Axl Rose... When we dropped the car back (hide plastic bags, stand in front of passenger door, create diversion...) we all went home to our respective houses and had some rest. I, however, went to see the Rapture in the village and had a late night. Tsk Tsk. Friday morning we arranged ourselves and headed into the Point. Its kinda a massive deal playing it, if i look above my computer here i can see all the ticket stubs of all the gigs i've seen here, all the great bands... and its hard to not to be a little proud of ourselves... walking around the area Níal and me took photos and kinda nodded at each other at the significance of it all... We got mini kitkats and heineken in the back room, made a few badges for folks who wanted them and went up to do our soundcheck. The seemed to be a few technical issues... we couldn't hear the soundman, the monitor person asked us to do stuff, and all the time the door time was getting closer and people were nervously tapping their watches. We left the stage kinda worried, wrote up a setlist and stood at the side looking out at everyone assembled at the front. When we got the nod went out and gave it everything, and judging on the reaction people liked it. When the time was up, it felt like we'd only been on for about 5 mins... When we got off stage one of the venue managers walked by and gruffly said "congrats, ye just played the point". Pretty good eh? Afterwards we drank the night away in the Point private bar. Of course. I managed not to damage any other teeth though, i made sure of it... Thanks to everyone who helped out on the tour, the crew, managers, and especially the band were all great and we enjoyed every minute of it. Roll on 2007! K
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Post by eoin on Dec 2, 2006 22:09:44 GMT
Yeah you guy's did a great job in Killarney. I bought The Rules on single there and I haven't stopped playing it since.
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Post by rojo on Dec 2, 2006 22:18:33 GMT
Didn't get the pass... RAGE! I'll have to wait 'til you headline the point.... ;-)
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Post by aspiration on Dec 3, 2006 13:32:52 GMT
Re: Savoy Gig.. Well I think ye should have listened to Ronan when he said "and this is our last song for the night" even though ye had just played it. We would have benefited from one extra track being played! I'm disgusted ye went to the brog. After moving the car from the car park to the south mall after the gig, my friend and i were strolling towards the brog to discover that the queue was backed up all the way to the grand parade and said f*ck it. And now i know it could actually have been worth our while queueing up to see Nial in some chicks satin top! And seeing you break a tooth from yer drunken antics!
Re: Point Gig... Sounds like the tour ended on a high note anyways! Yer such divas with yer mini kitkats and heineken. What happened to the stella?? And like rojo, I will also be waiting until ye headline. Hurry up and get cracking on that gig! ;D
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Post by Hazey on Dec 4, 2006 2:42:35 GMT
hahaha! fantastic diary entries! ever so quirky! sounded like a ton of fun guys. ill have to make the effort to go see yes support a big band at some stage! hehe
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Post by joanna on Dec 4, 2006 14:59:58 GMT
interesting Bell x1 fact: Tim has a jaffa cake between each song to keep his energy up. Is it disturbing that i already know that? Hehe, excellent tour diary lads. I know you weren't impressed with the sound in Mandela, but it was still an awesome set!
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Post by Mully on Dec 5, 2006 16:27:52 GMT
day 10: The Point Depot, Dublin. I woke up in Cork, in Sheila's Officially Irelands most Rock n Roll Hostel ... Seems to be the choice of the stars when they head off on a tour of the country. Bollix of a hill to climb when drunk, though.
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Post by aspiration on Dec 5, 2006 20:22:46 GMT
day 10: The Point Depot, Dublin. I woke up in Cork, in Sheila's Officially Irelands most Rock n Roll Hostel ... Seems to be the choice of the stars when they head off on a tour of the country. Bollix of a hill to climb when drunk, though. ...Where there's a will there's a way! I've heard good things bout that hostel alright - and Brú on MacCurtain Street as well. Their sessions in the pub are great. And there's not as much of a hill to climb than Sheila's!
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Post by Kier on Dec 6, 2006 0:08:05 GMT
day 10: The Point Depot, Dublin. I woke up in Cork, in Sheila's Officially Irelands most Rock n Roll Hostel ... Seems to be the choice of the stars when they head off on a tour of the country. Bollix of a hill to climb when drunk, though. ain't dat the truth. anyway, i just said "i woke up there" i didn't say i meant to.. K
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Post by Shane on Dec 6, 2006 17:15:15 GMT
Officially Irelands most Rock n Roll Hostel ... Seems to be the choice of the stars when they head off on a tour of the country. Bollix of a hill to climb when drunk, though. ain't dat the truth. anyway, i just said "i woke up there" i didn't say i meant to.. K Ahem: "Giggedy Giggedy - oohh right!" ;D
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