i had forgotten just how hard it is to sleep on a tour bus.
i know i’ve said this before, but i’m like the princess and the pea, and i will always envy people who can drop off to sleep regardless of the circumstances in which they’re trying to sleep. right now we’re in nurnburg (i think) and there’s a rock band playing on one of the small festival stages and it’s the middle of the day and 30 people are watching the rock band and it’s depressing cos i think of the times that i’ve been in that situation.
one time in spain we played a festival and the area in front of the stage could have accomodated 25,000 people but there were approximately 75 watching our show.
luckily that was a few years ago.
kind of like our first ever show in milan in 1995 in a venue that could’ve held 3,000 people and 8 came to our show.
yup. 8 people in a venue that could’ve held roughly 3,000. that was a good time…
it really is hard to be an arrogant rockstar when you’ve toured extensively and had many, many experiences playing in front of tiny groups of people.
i remember during the ‘animal rights’ tour we used to get excited if we sold 50% of the tickets in a venue. and these venues were very small. during the german leg of the ‘animal rights’ tour we actually sold out one of the shows. break out the champagne! but keep in mind that the show was in a venue that held 125 people.
and on that same tour we played a show in hamburg (to 75 people) and walked off stage into a broom closet and got locked in. they somehow left that out of ‘spinal tap’ but they should’ve included it, cos it made for some good comedy. stuck in a broom closet, locked in, while the 75 people in the audience were waiting for an encore.
and we were yelling ‘let us out! we wanna rock! we don’t wanna be in the broom closet anymore! it smells like cleaning supplies in here!’
we didn’t actually yell ‘we wanna rock!’ i was just trying to sound tough.
ok, time to go walk around and watch drunk european festivalgoers fall over into the mud.
moby