Hanging out in Heidelberg

We drove yesterday from Kassel where we did that rained out festival, to Heidelberg. We're not playing a show here for a few weeks, but it's on the way to our next show in Vienna, and one of our promoters, Santiago, lives here so we're hanging out for a day.

The drive was sweeet, nice and short, we saw a car that looks like a sneaker:



It was cool meeting Santiago finally, after sending him so many emails. And what a nice guy!



Anyway, we met him at his friends place, where a bunch of friends were having a BBQ. Everyone was nice to us, and people even spoke English to each other while we were around to make us feel comfortable. It's been so strange hanging out with people while they speak a foreign language, at first I find it really interesting but after a while it gets really hard to concentrate on what they're saying. Also, I feel like I'm the only person in the world who only speaks one language. What a douchebag. Haha. But the BBQ was great fun. They gave us totums, or power animals. Mine is Seal (fly like an eagle, let my spirit carry me) and Johanna's is the disappointingly predictable 'owl'. Booo.





The ex-Dunedin girl we're staying with has been so nice to us. She gave us her bed and even bought us breakfast this morning! Considering we don't know her at all and only met her yesterday, how nice is that?!? Also, she mentioned Fur Patrol's song Lydia, another European Fur Patrol connection. Will this become a reoccurring thing? Is this a stupid thing to be thinking about? Yes and yes.

Our music equipment keeps on breaking. We knew this would happen, because we were only able to get these cheap electronic drum pads. I have to open them up after each show to solder them up. But they've finally started completely dying. But we'll figure something out.

Me fixing the pads after our first show:


And other parts of our gear have started dying. We're going to spend most of today trying to sort it all out. Fingers crossed it'll be ok! My Clarinet has started to squeak a lot too... probably more to do with my terrible technique than anything else.

Our bookers keep on adding new shows to the tour, so exciting! Couple more German ones confirmed, the less days off the better!

When Johanna posted about Wurzburg she didn't have time to upload images, so here are a few from hanging out with Frank and playing in Wurzburg: