Erlangen

We had a few days off in our touring schedule, so our excellent German bookers found us a few shows to fill the gaps. This is one of those shows.

So we drove back to Germany to a town called Erlangen, to a venue called E-Werk. E-Werk is a giant cultural center with multiple stories, lots of different performance spaces plus community art spaces and stuff like that. A really great space actually.

The space we played in was this weird cafe/venue. It felt like it was lifted straight out of a tv show, like when people go to see a band in The O.C. or Gossip Girl or something like that. It was a seated venue, something we'd never played in before.

We opened for an 'alt rock' band, haha, we've never played with a band like that before. It's so so weird to hear German bands sing in English. Most of the time the people singing can't speak English all that well, and then they sing in a really strong American or British accent. I guess that's kind of like some bands in New Zealand. But it seems stranger here.

We met one of our booker's friends, who was hosting us for the evening. He's a VJ and has VJ'd some really huge parties. I found it all really interesting, VJing is such a new, emerging thing. He was saying he sees it as adding ambiance to a show or party. A sort of creative lighting director, or something. Anyway, check out some of his VJing installations at big parties, really impressive: http://www.myspace.com/schallbild



Anyway, he did some VJing during our set. He used little wirless cameras and some graphics, and it looked really cool :D

All in all, even though we were just tacked on at the last minute, and we were opening for a totally different kind of band, it was still heeaps of fun :)