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Stevenson's 2002 European Tour Recap

As always, thanks to all the friends, fans, et. al. who helped us on our way. (In retrospect, it probably wasn't a good idea to have a booker who only knows Euro crusty punks who hate keyboards book our tour. Still, we made the best of it.)
At any rate, below is a breakdown of what went down across the pond.



For Live Pics from Europe, Go to Photos

 9/19 The Tower Bar - Bremen, Germany: First show. Stiff crowd. A lot of people cleared out when hopeless got naked and starting playing twister with himself. Still, some good reactions.

9/20 Kopernikusstr. - Hannover Germany: My power strip blew up and these crazy Germans took it apart with a pocket knife and fixed it! That was the highlight of the show!

9/21 Robodock Festival - Amsterdam, Holland: This was a big burning-manish thing. We played early and a lot of people missed us as the line to get in was a mile long. + Hopeless broke several mics in rapid secession and the sound guy cut us off. Later we settled up with him and made peace. Then there was fire, fire, fire!
The Kopi - Berlin, Germany

9/22 No Pasaran - Hamburg, Germany: The first really good show of tour. People danced, people screamed, etc.

9/23 Flora - Hamburg, Germany: One of the worst, uninspiring shows of tour. At least a few people from the night before came to see us. Still, it sucked.
Early Morning in a Berlin Bar
9/24 The Kopi - Berlin, Germany: One of the best shows on tour. An amazing 10 story squat just on the east side of the Berlin wall. The whole place was falling apart and caving in. We played very late it the basement, and it was just like a limbs show back home: crammed with drunk dancing freaks. We even saw some familiar faces from SF. Berlin rules!

9/25 Zenit - Stendal, Germany: Tiny town outside Berlin. We played this weird youth center. There were like 30 guys and 2 girls there. Weird. Everyone was very drunk and Klosoff could hardly play, so we left the stage and an impromptu jam session broke out. The most comical show of tour.
Lazy, Les (from Left for Dead) and Miller in Stendal, Germany
9/26 Zoro Club - Leipzig, Germany : Huge festival. Great food! Bands from literally all over the world. There were even some noise bands, which was a welcome relief from the endless barrage of crust punk we had been exposed to up to that point. We went on extremely late, but it was still a good set.

9/27 Zwischenfall (Pagan Love Songs) - Bochum, Germany: : Only the coolest Deathrock club in Germany, if not Europe. Was looking forward to this show and was not let down. Great club, great people, great show. Got to meet a lot of people I had been talking to over the Internet for the last three years and many of them drove insane distances to make it. Afterwards, they played great music all night! Including Heart of Snow and the Vanishing!

9/28 Lintfabriek -- Knotich, Belgium: The first of many hour long sound checks in Europe. Stiff crowd. Good music afterwards and was happy to hear Heart of Snow again. I got sick as a dog after this show and lost my voice.

9/29 OCCII - Amsterdam, Holland: Ok, we sound-checked for literally an hour and a half and it sounded like total shit onstage and in the audience. Plus I am so g/d allergic to this venue. Booooo! Also, afterward, classic: Jason is
upset he can not find anywhere to buy smokes and the booker scolds us: "You Americans! All you do is buy, buy, buy, sell, sell, sell!"

10/1 The Pits - Kortrijk, Belgium: Tiny, tiny place in a tiny town. Great show. Ramses, the booker, made us some beer stew, with real meat!!! He also got us shitfaced drunk on really really strong Belgium beer. + the people at the club played awesome music like Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and Arab on Radar and stuff. Cool show!
10/2 La Zone - Liege, Belgium: Really cool town! Great show! They wouldn't let us off the stage and I had to turn everything back on twice before they would finally let us off.

10/3 SCSI Cell - The Hague, Holland: The best show in Holland by far. Played in a tiny packed room and it was another typical chaotic drunkein limbs show just like home.

Crazy Kids in Imperia, Italy

10/5 JH Fasanenhof - Stuttgard, Germany: Mike s/.omehow split his head open at this show. Jason and Scott defeated four teams of Germans at Foosball (or Kicker as its called there). Oh, and we played also.

10/6 KTS - Freiburg, Germany: Most of the punks were a little freaked out and they didn't like being called "assholes," by hopeless, apparently. Luckily some deathrock/goth kids showed up out of nowhere, as they did several times on tour, and were into it.

10/7 Kulturkollektiv Hirscheneck - Basel, Switzerland: Cool restaurant / club. The sound guy knew exactly what he was doing! The crowd was cool. Good show. Afterwards we kicked it on the bank of the Rhine. Very cool. The next day we drove through the Swiss Alps. Very nice indeed!

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