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Our first show in Amsterdam/Netherlands

So we've been hanging out here in Amsterdam for 3 weeks now. Looking for job, a place to live, and finishing recording our new EP.

Last night we played our first show in Amsterdam, and it was sweeet! We played at the closing party of a big open air film festival called Pluk De Nacht. It was an extremely well run show, the people who put this on are pretty amazing. The room was packed with about 500 people! Everyone we met was really friendly, and we even managed to bump into a guy that used to work at Mighty Mighty, a bar in Wellington that we played at a bunch of time. Small world. Great night!

Here are some pictures:

Blogotheque

We played Midi Festival in the south of France and it was amazing! Blogotheque were there and asked us to do a little take away show. Here's some of the footage! See if you can spot Piklet, Joe, guys from Dent May, guys from Jeffery Lewis and guys from Jeremy Jay. Epic jams

http://liveweb.arte.tv/fr/video/Midi_Festival_Jour_1___Dent_May__Francois_Virot__Little_Pictures____/

Baby moved to Amsterdam

Yeeeah, we're living here. Sort of. We're in a temporary rental and looking for a permanent place and jobs. But we're here! And we're working on new recordings which are coming up pretty Millhouse.

Will post up tour photos and stories. Needless to say it was awesome, and we'll be touring Germany again in a couple of months.

Woah

Man we suck at updating. We have so many pictures and great stories, all will be revealed soon!

For now, here are some awesome pictures from a garden party we played in Kassel, in the backyard of our excellent booker Volker, how cool are these? (heaps more if you follow the link)

http://longlivethequiet.com/magicgarden.html

Berlin show, at the Bread & Butter Vice Party

We'll have blogs and pictures up about our Italian tour (which was amazing!!) as soon as we fix the camera (dropped and broken)! Until then:

We played in Berlin last night. There's a big fashion festival on in Berlin at the moment called Bread and Butter. We were playing at Vice magazine's party for the festival. It was a really crazy event at this big new half constructed hotel. It was an open bar and it was invitation only.

Everything was running really late and we didn't get to sound check, so our set was pretty bad, the worst all tour actually. Heaps of feeding back mics and stuff. The sound guy got mad at us afterwards for some reason too. I didn't quite understand why. Everyone was really loud and drunk. A guy tried to steal my saxophone after we played. People were trying desperately to get into the place, so the organisers had to barricade the door with upturned tables to keep people out.

It was WAY too much for us.

But luckily we met some really nice people, and some very kind people who said they liked our music. Two of these people were from a band we didn't know much about called Eight Legs who it turns out are really good. They'd played a show earlier in the day as part of the Bread and Butter festival and they said it was weird too. I'm glad we weren't the only ones who found it all a bit much. They offered to book some shows for us in England which was very nice of them.

We also met a couple of the other bands that played and they were really nice guys. One of the bands knew New Zealand band The Datsuns, which was weird. They actually sounded quite a bit like The Datsuns too.

Berlin seems like an awesome city! We met up with our lecturer and friend Geoff Stahl who's living there at the moment. It was great walking through the city, it's such a sprawling, massive city!

Anyway, it was a strange night but in the end it was all ok. The guy putting it on was fantastic, and everyone who was helping putting the thing on was friendly and nice. Every show on the tour has been really different, and this one was no exception.

Reutlingen

Yesterday we played in Reutlingen which is a small town in the south of Germany. It was another strange show, this time in a clothes shop. When we heard we were going to be playing in a clothes shop on a Monday night we were a bit worried..

But it actually turned out to be a really good show. The shop is really interesting. It's a store that sells hipster style clothing with a fair trade ethic. They've also set it up as a place for people to hang out in, selling drinks and stuff like that. And people do hang out in it. It's really cool, surprisingly cool for such a tiny little town.

The show itself was an early one, but a good one. The shop is tiny, and was full with the 40 odd people that came along. The promoter wanted us to play two sets, so we gave it ago. It was something we'd never done before. But it actually worked quite well, and we got to talk to people in between the sets. People bought our album, people seemed into it. It was a really good show, and I think the first time we'd ever played on a Monday.

After the show the shop owner, promoter, and host Henrick took us to a local bar. It was this weird Irish pub that was packed full of people, and it was Kareoke night. This was the first time we really experienced any real sort of culture shock. People were singing these English language songs, and putting on their best American or British accents in an attempt to mimic the original performers. So strange.

Afterwards we went back to Henrick's place, and what an amazing host! He had this room set up for us with beds, internet, and a fridge full of beer, fizzy drink and food for us. We were totally blown away. I'm sitting in said room at the moment typing this out. It's 3 in the afternoon, we should really go and do our washing. Next stop is Italy.. Milano I think. See ya there