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GERMAN/DUTCH TOUR DIARY 2010
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THURSDAY 8TH APRIL. WEIMAR, DRUMS CLUB SUPERYOB + MUMMY'S DARLINGS + NASTY MATTER
WHEN ASKED IF WE WOULD LIKE TO
DO SOME SIGHTSEEING BY OLI AND DIANA, SUPERYOB SAID YES.....
SO WE WENT TO LOOK AT THE SITE OF BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMP
FROM WW2..... AS THE JOURNEY TO WEIMAR PROGRESSED, OUR MINDS BECAME ONCE AGAIN FOCUSED ON THE SCHEDULE WE HAD TO KEEP, AND WE ARRIVED AT THE VENUE IN WEIMAR CALLED DRUMS WHERE WE HAD OUR FIRST SHOW THAT EVENING. WE WERE MET BY HERBSTI THE PROMOTER AND UNLOADED THE EQUIPMENT AND MERCHANDISE THEN WENT TO OUR HOTEL. FRANKY AND MICK SHARED A ROOM WITH TWO SINGLE BEDS, DAVE AND ANDY HAD THE DOUBTFUL PLEASURE OF HAVING A ROOM WITH A DOUBLE BED TO SHARE...! (HAHA...OOO-ER!). THE TOUR PARTY WENT BACK TO THE VENUE AND THEN 'MUMMY'S DARLINGS' ARRIVED AND IT WAS GOOD TO SEE MUNICH'S FINEST- WASTL, KORBE, BENE AND EMMI - AGAIN! SOON AFTER THIS, YOUNG BLADES 'NASTY MATTER' TURNED UP, AND AFTER SOUNDCHECKS WE ALL ATE A MEAL AT THE VENUE.
LATER ON AT THE MERCHANDISE STALL, RANDALE RECORDS BOSS DIANA UNVEILED THE NEW SUPERYOB VINYL RELEASE, A VINYL COLLECTORS SPECIAL EDITION PACKAGE CALLED 'DOUBLE TROUBLE'. THIS IS A DOUBLE 12 INCH VINYL ALBUM RELEASE PLUS A 10 INCH VINYL BONUS ALBUM; AND FEATURES THE FIRST TWO SUPERYOB ALBUMS "AGGROPHOBIA" AND "MACHINE GUNS 'N' ALCOHOL" PLUS FIVE RARE BONUS TRACKS; A TOTAL OF 25 TRACKS IN ALL. THIS WAS THE FIRST NIGHT OF SALES FOR 'DOUBLE TROUBLE' AND THE ALBUM MANUFACTURE HAD BEEN COMPLETED JUST TWO DAYS BEFORE, SO IT WAS LUCKY THAT HE PRODUCT WAS AVAILABLE, A VERY NARROW TIME FRAME BETWEEN COMPLETION AND FIRST NIGHT SALES! AT THE CONCERT, WHICH HAD ABOUT 90-100 PEOPLE PRESENT, A STRONG SET OF SONGS FROM NASTY MATTER DREW APPLAUSE AND THEN MUMMY'S DARLINGS RAISED THE STAKES WITH A VERY GOOD PERFORMANCE, THEY SEEM TO GET BETTER EVERY TIME THEY PLAY; AND THEY HAVE THE INSTINCTS TO MAKE VERY GOOD STREETROCK/Oi! MUSIC. SUPERYOB TOOK THE STAGE AND SOON ALL WERE SINGING ALONG WITH THE YOBS, AND THE CROWD ROARED APPROVAL. BODIES WHIRLED, MOSHED AND THRASHED IN THE PIT AS THE FANS SLAMMED AND BODYCHECKED EACH AND EVERYONE, SOMETIMES WITH HILARIOUS RESULTS....AND DAVE HAYSTACKS GUITAR PEDALS GOT CHRISTENED WITH BEERS ABOUT THREE TIMES, BUT STILL SOMEHOW SEEMED TO WORK.....
FRANK AND DAVE NARROWLY AVOIDED LOSING FRONT TEETH AS MICROPHONE STANDS GOT KICKED AND SHOVED AND BODIES STARTED TO FLY ACROSS THE STAGE EQUIPMENT..... A SLIGHT SETBACK TO THE FLOW OF THE SUPERYOB SHOW OCCURRED WHEN THE SNARE DRUM SKIN SPLIT AND MICKY DRUMMER HAD TO CHANGE THE DRUM....HOWEVER, THE ADRENALIN SOON RETURNED AND THE CLIMAX OF SUPERYOB'S SET WAS A MASS SINGALONG ON 'LONDON PRIDE', 'EIGHTEEN' AND 'ON YER BIKE'... THEN, KORBE, THE BIG DRUMMER FROM MUMMY'S DARLINGS JOINED FRANK ON THE MIKE FOR THE CHORUSES IN 'ON YER BIKE'...THE SUPERYOB SHOW ENDED TRIUMPHANTLY AND A FIGHT KICKED OFF AS THE YOBS CLOSED THEIR SET..... ALL PART OF LIFE'S RICH PAGEANT (!) WE HAD DONE WELL CONSIDERING THE LACK OF SLEEP THE NIGHT BEFORE. A GREAT SUPERYOB SHOW AND TWO GOOD SETS FROM THE SUPPORT ACTS AS WELL. WE ALL SHARED BEERS AND HAD A LAUGH OR TWO LATER, TALKING WITH THE FANS AND MEETING OLD FRIENDS AS WELL......THEN WENT BACK TO THE HOTEL AND GOT TO BED AT ABOUT 3AM. A LONG BUT EVENTFUL DAY! ZZZZZZZ.......
------------------------------- FRIDAY 9TH APRIL. WEGELEBEN, ALTE ZUCKERFABRIK CLUB SUPERYOB SKINFULL + CRIMINAL CLASS + MUMMY'S DARLINGS. + FRANKY FLAME SOLO SHOW
WE ASSEMBLED AT 10.30 AM; LAUGHING
AT THE WAY THAT HAYSTACKS AND ANDY HAD TO SHARE A DOUBLE BED....ANDY
DREAMED OF HIS GIRLFRIEND PINKY AND ACCORDING TO HAYSTACKS WAS
'LIKE AN OCTOPUS' (HAHAHAHAHA...) WHILE ANDY SWORE THAT DAVE'S
FARTS BLEW HIM OUT OF THE BED. (POWERFUL METHANE NIGHTMARE NUCLEAR
BLASTS...HEEHEE...) ANDY COMMANDED THE SHOWER IN HIS ROOM AND
POOR OLD DAVE HAYSTACKS HAD TO RETREAT TO FRANK AND MICKY'S
ROOM TO USE THE TOILET.
WE ALL HAD COFFE IN THEATERPLATZ, SHARED STORIES AND TOOK PHOTOS, INCLUDING PHOTOS OF THE STATUE OF GOETHE AND SCHILLER AS WE STOOD ON THE STEPS OF THE PLINTH....SKINHEADS IN THEATERPLATZ! SHOCK HORROR! Oi! HAS ARRIVED IN WEIMAR!
WE ARRIVED AFTER OUR DRIVE AND
MUMMY'S DARLINGS WERE ALREADY THERE, TOGETHER WITH SKINFULL
FROM COVENTRY, ENGLAND. OUR OLD MATE JIM SKIN AND HIS LADY NAMED
MARINA HAD ALSO ARRIVED. GREAT TO SEE JIM AGAIN. TONIGHT'S SHOW
WAS BILLED AS 'THIS IS ENGLAND'; PROMOTED BY TWISC; AND THE
BILL FEATURED SUPERYOB, MUMMY'S DARLINGS, CRIMINAL CLASS AND
SKINFULL. WE ALL HAD A 'CATCH-UP CHAT' AND SHARED ROAD STORIES
AND THEN GOT SOME BEERS. STRANGE BUT TRUE, THE MAYOR AND MAYORESS OF WEGELEBEN CAME TO THE VENUE AND MADE A POINT OF INTRODUCING THEMSELVES TO US AND THE ASSEMBLED COMPANY! PERHAPS THEY WERE CURIOUS ABOUT THE SKINS AND PUNKS IN THE TOWN.....THE MAYOR TARGETED FRANK, AND SHOOK HIS HAND SAYING, ' I AM THE MAYOR'.... AND THE MAYOR'S WIFE TOOK A PICTURE OF THE SUPERYOB SINGER SHAKING HANDS WITH HIM. 'BLIMEY!' SAID FRANK,'THAT'S THE FIRST TIME A MAYOR HAS WANTED HIS PICTURE TAKEN WITH ME!' (AT THE END OF THE NIGHT, THE MAYOR HAD A FEW TOO MANY BEERS AND HIS WIFE KICKED HIM OUT OF THE VENUE, SHE WAS NOT AMUSED...HEHE). ALL THE BANDS SOUNDCHECKED. THE SHOW PROVED TO BE A GREAT SUCCESS, WITH ABOUT 180-200 IN THE AUDIENCE TO SEE THE BANDS. MUMMY'S DARLINGS STARTED THE SHOW, PROUDLY DELIVERING THEIR SONGS WITH FLAIR AND PASSION, AND WINNING THE THUMBS UP FROM ALL PRESENT!
THEN CRIMINAL CLASS TOOK TO THE STAGE, PLAYING A SHORTER SET, WITH SOME SPEEDY NO-NONSENSE FAST PUNKROCK.
AFTER THIS THE MIGHTY SUPERYOB
PLAYED FOR AN HOUR AND TEN MINUTES IN FRONT OF THEIR MAGNIFICENT
STAGE BANNER, WHICH FEATURES THE UNION FLAG MOTIF, AND THE WORDS
'SUPERYOB' AND 'LONDON'. OUR SET GOT A GREAT RESPONSE AND WE
GAVE NO QUARTER, AS WE PLAYED ANTHEM AFTER ANTHEM FOR THE MASSED
RANKS OF Oi! AND PUNK FANS.
SOON AFTER SUPERYOB DEPARTED FROM THE STAGE, COVENTRY'S FINEST YOUNG BAND SKINFULL TOOK THE STAGE, AND PROVED THEY ARE ONE OF THE BEST BANDS TO WATCH AND COULD BECOME THE LEADERS OF THE NEW BREED: THE FUTURE OF THE SCENE. THEIR SET WAS A JOY TO SEE AND LISTEN TO! THEY ARE YOUNG, BUT AT THE SAME TIME HAVE A POSITIVE MESSAGE, STRONG SONGS, GOOD SOUND, AND ENOUGH EXPERIENCE TO PUT ON A VERY GOOD SHOW. THEY ARE UNASSUMING AS PEOPLE, BUT DELIVER THE GOODS IN SPECTACULAR STYLE WHEN THEY ARE ONSTAGE. HEY SKINFULL!- JUST KEEP GOING, YOU ARE A GREAT PROSPECT!......
AFTER THE COVENTRY YOUNGSTERS, FRANKY FLAME TOOK TO THE STAGE TO DELIVER HIS ONE MAN SHOW AS A KEYBOARD AND VOCAL SINGALONG SET..... WITH HIS KEYBOARD PROPPED UP ON BEER CRATES, THE 'WIZARD OF OI!' STOOD BEHIND IT AND ENTERTAINED WITH ROUSING CHANTS SUCH AS "FRANKY FLAME'S BARMY ARMY!!!!" AND SONGS BY COCK SPARRER, THE BUSINESS AND SUPERYOB PLUS FOOTBALL, COMEDY AND TRADITIONAL DRINKING SONGS. FRANKY ENTERTAINED DIE ALTE ZUCKERFABRIK CROWD IN TRUE FINE COCKNEY PUB PIANO PLAYER STYLE WITH HIS UNIQUE "OI! THE PUB SINGALONG" OFFERINGS AND THE CHANT "HERE WE GO" SAW THE CROWD FORMING A LINE AND DOING 'Oi!-THE CONGA' AROUND THE VENUE! FRANK PLAYED HIS COMPOSITION, THE CLASSIC 'LONDON PRIDE' AS AN ENCORE, AND ONCE AGAIN THE AUDIENCE SANG THE CHORUS AND JOINED IN SINGING THE CATCHY LA-LA-LA-LA SECTION OF THE SONG, ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR LIVE SONGS THAT SUPERYOB HAVE EVER MADE.......PRAISE INDEED. SWEATING AND THIRSTY, FRANK RETREATED TO THE DRESSING ROOM TO GET SOME BEERS, AFTER SIGNING COPIES OF THE NEW SUPERYOB ALBUMS.
DIANA, SVEN AND OLI WORKED NON
STOP ON THE MERCH STALL AND COULD BE SEEN SINGING ALONG WITH
ALL THE ACTS AT THE SHOW, WITH SPECIAL SMILES FOR FRANK'S KNEES-UP
PARTY SHOW. TWISC THE PROMOTER WAS FULL OF PRAISE AND WAS POSITIVE
ABOUT THE NIGHT'S PROCEEDINGS..... OTHER FACES AT THE SHOW INCLUDED
THOMAS ECKE, PROMOTER OF ENDLESS SUMMER FESTIVAL AND Oi! THE
MEETING, WITH HIS NEW LADYFRIEND. THOMAS AND HIS GIRL HAD A
DRINK WITH US BACKSTAGE. ------------------------------- SATURDAY 10TH APRIL. MÖNCHENGLADBACH, ROOTS CLUB SUPERYOB + EVIL CONDUCT + THE BRAWLERS
WE STUMBLED OUT OF BED AT 11AM
AND ATE BREAKFAST WHICH SVEN AND OLI HAD KINDLY DRIVEN INTO
THE TOWN TO BRING BACK FOR US. NOT QUITE ENOUGH SLEEP BUT NEVER
MIND....FRANK'S VOICE SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN LEFT BEHIND IN DIE
ALTE ZUCKERFABRIK AND HE WAS HAVING TROUBLE TRYING TO EVEN SPEAK,
WHICH WAS NOT A GOOD SIGN FOR THE PROSPECT OF SINGING AT TWO
MORE Oi! SHOWS!
WE MOVED IN THE EQUIPMENT AND THE MERCHANDISE STOCK, AND SOON OUR FRIENDS FROM HOLLAND, THE GREAT EVIL CONDUCT, ARRIVED. WE SOUNDCHECKED AND LATER ATE PIZZA. THE PROMOTER CEM PLAYS DRUMS IN THE BRAWLERS, AND THE BRAWLERS TOOK THE STAGE FIRST, AFTER WHICH THE FINEST Oi! BAND IN HOLLAND'S HISTORY TOOK TO THE STAGE.
EVIL CONDUCT ARE WELL KNOWN TO
ALL IN OUR SCENE AND THEY NEVER FAIL TO DELIVER A GREAT CLASSIC
SHOW FOR SKINHEADS EVERYWHERE. ALL WAS GOING WELL, UNTIL THE
STAGE MANAGER TRIED TO SHORTEN THEIR SET FROM THE AGREED SET
TIME (WHILE THEY WERE ONSTAGE) AND THEN THE STAGE MANAGER PROCEEDED
TO PLAY HARDCORE MUSIC THROUGH THE PA SYSTEM- WHILE EVIL CONDUCT
WERE STILL PLAYING THEIR SONGS ONSTAGE..... HAN RAY AND JOOST
WERE NATURALLY FURIOUS WITH THIS AND THE STAGE MANAGER GOT A
COUPLE OF SLAPS FROM HAN....THEN FOLLOWED ABOUT TEN MINUTES
OF FEEDBACK AND CONFUSION AS EVIL CONDUCT MOVED TO THE BACK
OF THE STAGE WITH THE AMPS STILL TURNED ON, TO DECIDE WHAT TO
DO. THEIR SHOW HAD BEEN SABOTAGED AND THE BAND HAD SEEN THEIR
MOMENTUM WITH THE AUDIENCE BROKEN BECAUSE OF THE ACTIONS OF
THE MANAGEMENT. FINALLY THEY LEFT THE STAGE. THIS WAS A REAL
PITY BECAUSE EVIL CONDUCT ARE ONE OF SUPERYOB'S FAVOURITE BANDS,
THEY HAVE GREAT SONGS AND A GREAT WAY OF PERFORMING; AND THEY
HAD BEEN TREATED BADLY. THEY ARE ALSO GREAT BLOKES AND IT JUST
SEEMED SUCH A STUPID COCK UP TO TREAT THEM LIKE THIS. THEY WERE
HUGELY PISSED OFF AND I DIDN'T BLAME THEM.
WHEN SUPERYOB MOVED TO THE STAGE
TO CONTINUE THE SHOW, ONLY TWO MICROPHONES WERE WORKING, SO
WE HAD TO USE TWO INSTEAD OF THREE FOR THE SUPERYOB VOCALS.....
FRANK SHARED WITH ANDY. THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE CLUB WAS STILL
CHARGED FROM THE BRIEF PUNCH UP BETWEEN HAN AND THE STAGE MANAGER,
AND SUPERYOB KICKED OFF WITH A DYNAMIC VERSION OF 'AINT GONNA
TAKE IT'. SOON IT BECAME OBVIOUS THAT THE CROWD WERE UP FOR
A GOOD TIME AND THE WHOLE SUPERYOB SET WAS PLAYED TOGETHER WITH
GREAT PARTICIPATION FROM THE AUDIENCE....FRANK'S VOICE WAS STILL
ROUGH.... HE TOLD THE PEOPLE THERE- "I LEFT MY VOICE IN
WEGELEBEN, SO YOU HAVE TO SING LOUDER!!!".... AND THEY
DID! SOMEHOW FRANK MANAGED TO SING MORE OR LESS AS NORMAL, BUT
STILL SOUNDED A BIT ROUGH. DAVE HAYSTACKS SANG EXTRA LINES IN
THE SONGS AS WELL AS THE USUAL BACKING VOCALS HE SINGS, AND
BACKED UP FRANK'S EFFORTS WELL......WE WERE HALF EXPECTING THE
SAME STAGE MANAGER TO ATTEMPT TO SHORTEN OUR SET, BUT THIS DIDN'T
HAPPEN AND WE GOT THE WHOLE CLUB SINGING AND PARTYING TO OUR
SONGS WITH FISTS IN THE AIR AND ONCE AGAIN STREETROCK/Oi! REIGNED
SUPREME IN MÖNCHENGLADBACH! THE GIG FINISHED ON A REAL
HIGH FOR SUPERYOB.
LATER AFTER OUR SET, A FEW PUNCH UPS KICKED OFF BUT IT SEEMED TO BE TOO MUCH DRINK THAT SET THINGS OFF.....THAT'S LIFE!!! MICK'S SNARE DRUM GOT A BOOT PUT THROUGH IT, BUT RAY FROM EVIL CONDUCT KINDLY SAID THAT MICK COULD USE HIS SNARE THE FOLLOWING NIGHT IN EINDHOVEN. SUPERYOB, RANDALE CREW AND EVIL CONDUCT RETIRED TO AN IRISH PUB FOR SOME GUINNESS LATER, AND SHARED SOME TIME TOGETHER CHATTING AND WINDING DOWN AFTER THE SHOW. A NICE NIGHTCAP FOR EVERYONE. AFTER THIS OUR HARD WORKING RANDALE RECORDS BOSS DIANA DROVE SUPERYOB PLUS OLI AND SVEN TO OUR HOTEL, AND WE ALL EVENTUALLY GOT TO BED LATE AFTER A LATE DRINK AND SOME LAUGHS. GOODNIGHT ALL ........ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!! ------------------------------- SUNDAY 11TH APRIL. EINDHOVEN (NL), RAMBLER EVIL CONDUCT + SUPERYOB
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THE SHOW LATER THAT EVENING WAS A GREAT SUCCESS. SUPERYOB PLAYED FIRST AND THE CROWD WARMED TO THE COCKNEY YOBSTERS AS THE SUPERYOB SET PROCEEDED WITH THE CLASSIC SUPERYOB ANTHEMS. THE STAND OUT SUPERYOB SONGS AGAIN WORKED THEIR MAGIC; AND SOON ALL WERE SINGING THE CHORUSES TO THE MEATY, BLISTERING YOB TUNES ' BANG TO RIGHTS', 'MACHINE GUNS 'N' ALCOHOL', 'STRENGTH OF THE NATION', 'CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME', 'ROUGH JUSTICE', 'LONDON PRIDE', 'EIGHTEEN' AND 'ON YER BIKE'.... THESE BEING JUST SOME OF THE SONG AMMUNITION IN THE SUPERYOB ARMOURY. THE YOB'S ENCORES WERE 'DO ANYTHING YOU WANNA DO' BY EDDIE AND THE HOT RODS AND 'MAMA WEER ALL CRAZEE NOW' BY GLAM LEGENDS SLADE. PERFECT!
HOLLAND'S OWN HEROES EVIL CONDUCT TOOK THE STAGE AND THE AUDIENCE WAS TREATED TO THE SIMPLE, WELL WRITTEN, CATCHY AND IRRESISTIBLE SONGS THAT THIS BAND DO SO WELL! EVIL CONDUCT ARE ONE OF THE BEST SKIN BANDS IN THE WORLD AND TONIGHT PROVED WHY.... ALL IN THE PLACE SANG ALONG WITH THEM ON GEMS SUCH AS 'NO PAIN, NO GAIN', 'PAY THE PRICE', 'HOME SWEET HOME' (THEIR RECENT RELEASE ON RANDALE RECORDS), 'I WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN' AND OTHER EVIL CONDUCT CLASSICS..... FRANKY WAS SEEN UP FRONT SINGING (WITH WHAT WAS LEFT OF HIS VOICE) ALONG WITH THE CROWD TO 'GOT NOWHERE TO GO'.... AND THEN WAS CALLED UP ONSTAGE AGAIN TO SING ON THE SONG 'THIS IS HOW WE FEEL' - THE SONG FRANKY SANG FROM THE RECORDINGS HE MADE WITH EVIL CONDUCT IN 2009....A BOOM-BOOM EVENING OF Oi! ALTOGETHER AND WHEN EVIL CONDUCT CAME OFF STAGE, WE ALL KNEW THE TWO BANDS HAD GIVEN QUALITY PERFORMANCES!
SO THIS WAS A GRAND FINALE TO OUR SHORT TOUR AND A CRACKING WAY TO BOW OUT. HERE ARE SOME OTHER SNAPS TAKEN AT THE RAMBLER COURTESY OF JEAN-LUC.
4 GREAT SHOWS, ALL WITH A UNIQUE FLAVOUR! THANKS AND WELL DONE TO DIANA, OLI AND SVEN FOR THEIR HARD WORK AND ORGANISATION, WELL DONE TO ALL THE BANDS WE SHARED THE STAGE WITH, AND WELL DONE SUPERYOB!
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