Hamburg
Germany.They have tequila-flavoured beer here. I shit you not. Baby bottles of Jagermeister at the tube stations…
As Ross has taken off to Berlin for the weekend I have decided not to leave the hotel room. Yeah I am being snot. I haven’t been dressed all day and I picked my hair out.
Have also had 4 showers and used all the towels…Woooo! Rock heaven.
Fuck, where to begin.
It all seems so unreal. Britta and me leave on a press tour after we play 3 dates in the Netherlands. See???How fucking unreal does that look? I feel like the whole world is on just for me right now, as I sit here there are fireworks going off outside the window to Elvis.I couldn’t make this shit up, as I tend to veer away from perfection. And as far as I can work out this is fuckin perfect.
My new tattoos swelled up on the plane and the 1st shower in Germany was great. We basically got here and then went and played, it was that fast. We were on this thing along with Mortal Sin and the Tatts called “Rock over Hamburg” Killer fun.
Then we were back there opening for Carnivore a few days after Wacken.Holy Moses got me up on stage to do “To drunk to fuck” an honour! There is footage somewhere. Pete Steel was absolutely charming.which is why I gave him the bottle of red wine that I stole from catering back at the hotel at 2 in the morning.
I am looking tired cause I fuckin am! I cant seem to catch up but what I can do is get used to this.
Funny shit living in a hotel and having no money.dethrowned royalty. Think that I got me a hotel heart as well.
I don’t have my usual array of pictures up. That way I can make like it’s not as permeant as it is and that I don’t miss my significant other as much as I do. I have to get my alien papers here. The mind boggles. We are not going to leave until we get what we want. And one way or another I usually do.
[“Your not coming back” He says over the long distance delay. I can’t even think about it or I will lose it before I even start]
I have had a few weird moments. Kids with camera phones. It’s flattering as all hell.
I am off to Paris and Spain to embarrass myself in front of the worlds press. We just got confirmed for Bloodstock in the UK at the end of the month so I got a mess of press there as well. It’s a job now, this is actually what I do and it takes my fucking breath away.
So, here I am in room 503 at the Monopol hotel in Hamburg. Smack in the middle of the red lights. Being the bone deep scumbag I am I could not feel more at home. There is a closed street here. All the hookers in the windows and what not, so in the name of science and so on [humour me ok?] I decided that it would aid my development as a human being to go and window-shop some of the finest workingwomen in the world.
“Women verboten!!!” Said the red sign at the front of the miracle mile.
Not for long….
I have had fuckers calling me “Sir” for years so I strapped the rack down and went in. Miles of women under UV lights, blonde hair glowing…. perved my ass out and the got busted by 3 Aussie metal heads on the way out.
Heh.
Ross has got me learning German and I feel really dominant even asking the time. This is one language that should be dressed in black leather and called “Daddy”
I have got my counting down though. There is an all night porn channel here that has all the phone sex adds on a loop and as they say the numbers they flash up. Kinda like an adult’s only sesame street. Whatever works right?
Its so weird being in a situation that was only a fantasy for so long but when I look around I know that I am doing the right thing.
The ground crew at our label are astounding. Being believed in by the real thing makes up for being shat on by the wanna bes at home for so long.
The new single looks awesome and the album is out on the 13th of October.Aramageddon are gonna bring it back to Australia as well so you will be able to get it,don’t fear.
This shit is gonna be all over the place so please bare with me. I took a million pictures; I mean the fucking scale of this shit and then to wind it all up on the last nite watching Moterhead by the side of the stage with 50 thousand people out there. Awesome.
I think that I owe Mick Cox and The Rose Tattoo boys my life. I don’t think that I have ever been treated so well. Mick is the one who gave us the leg up in Germany. Those guys are treated like gods here. You have never seen anything like it. And I got to wish Angry a happy birthday before he went on.
Teen cream fan dream.
The whole fuckin thing.
It was really great seeing Mortal Sin tear it a new ass on the first night in. I was in the pit just beaming. We all ended up staying in the same hotel so it really did feel like us against the world.
Seeing the reaction to us a few days later was really funny. There was nothing else like us on the bill [As always} but rest assured I am already writing to a whole heap of new euro sikfuks.Got to play the press tent and do some TV interviews.gotta tell you, the press tent and backstage is a total trip. It was a case of who didn’t I meet….
I will just post the photos ok cause it does my head in.
I think that we did good the boys were amazing but I know that I could do better. I am gonna have to. I am finally playing for keeps. Just got so used to getting fucked over that I didnt think that all this was really for real.
It’s hard as fuck to diet when in the land of the free smorgasbord!
We move into our camp in Altona on Monday so I will drag my ass out of the table dancing clubs and Cafe’s and do a zillion sit ups. The gaff that Miss Sheree has got us used to be an old supermaket.5 stories and a full studio with back line. Can’t wait.
More later.
SF4L
Michele.
