20.03.2009 | HAMMER BATTALION NORTH TOUR BLOG 5
DEVIAN TOUR BLOG PART 5 -TO THE ILLFATED GODS END!
HAMMER BATTALION NORTH TOUR 2009

7th of March - Östersund - Sweden
Venue: Tingshuset

Tomas:
After a rude awakening, I was still drunk when I woke up and quick load out, the bus couldn't park outside the venue, and I had a late breakfast. After that I said hello to all the guys in Guillotine for the second time. Apparently my memory didn’t serve me that well since I had totally forgotten about partying last night in Umeå. Spend the day at an old friend's house, Ersa. He and his girlfriend came to see the show this night too!



Legion:
Stone me into the groove.

Emil:
Never been here before, will not return either.

Tomas:
Not even if Wazek gonna be there showing you porn while you are playing drums Emil???



Carl:
Too drunk to write right now... Swedish alcoholic, sorry.


10th of March - Örebro - Sweden
Venue: Kulturhuset

Tomas:
I spent my days off at home doing various cool rock star stuff. Everything was already set up when I came to the venue. Tonight my parents also came to the show and lots of people showed up, damn cool city Örebro! After the show I went out with Oskar, one of my oldest and dearest friends, to some pubs. The beer was cheap and the place was cool. I came back to the bus just before the bus call, mission accomplished!



Legion:
Alright back to business. After two days off in Stockholm hanging out with dear friends and a mad tequila bash at Kellys that was topped off with the cancellation of Metallicas gig at the Globe. "James was spotted at the Spy Bar at 5 drunk as a skunk". "He was for sure at Café Opera". The bleeping phones with rumours and information was the topic all night as Kellys filled up with disappointed Metallica fans wanting to do something with their night off in the royal capitol.
The Örebro gig turned out to be the coolest so far on the tour. After shitstirring, agitating and jumping into the crowd all hell breaks loose, the response is awesome and the relatively small club is vibrating with good mood and fiendish warcries.

Emil:
I can only agree with Legion, I even break 2 sticks during this show due to the adrenaline rush!

Carl:
Supa.



Live review in Swedish - http://www.slavestate.se/?c=1163 


12th of March - Copenhagen - Denmark
Venue: The Rock

Legion:
Rui is here, with Rebecka; or RV3EKKÄ as her real name is. Our Kult of the Serpent leaders and apart from being our supreme StreetTeamers they are also two of the coolest people I know. Too fucking great to see them again!! Today’s Spinal Tap moment: I’ve lost my last contact lens for the left eye and got perfect vision on the right eye and am half blind on the left, it’s a bitch to walk stairs or catch things being thrown to me. I’ve never been to Denmark and had no clue what so ever to expect but it was a beyond nice surprise, tonight’s gig is the highlight of the tour. Repeatedly I’m jumping down in the crowd slam dancing, run over to the bar and jump up on the tables where people are sitting with their beers. Today this is scary business haha the table have two ledges and their both blurry with my fucked up vision. Like a drunken line dancer I’m swaying around. My legs are burning from being so tense since I feel like I’m about to fall over half of the time haha. I’m even up by the bar counter grabbing a chick trying to persuade her to get over to the action in the pit. She looks at me like I’m a bogeyman from a horror movie hahaha!! This is what is comes down to; in my adrenalin-morbid vision fuelled from the lyrics-head I reckon I’m just going "Hey, come on". What she sees is probably an insane looking idiot jumping up and down screaming "Ouurrrrgggghhhhh-aaaa-gaaaahhhh!!!!" in her ear.



Tomas:
As Legion mentioned, today we have some damn fine guests at the show – Rui and Rebecca. Started the day with going to some record stores with Joinus, Emil, Anders from Unleashed and Rui. I still owe Anders big time! He gave me a shit load of movies yesterday when we were stranded at a gas station, damn nice dude!

Emil:
Anders from Unleashed joins me on stage tonight while we do our show, he greets me with beers and we drink and salute between the songs! Therefore, when Unleashed later on enters the stage I decide to do the same but also do some percussion with him and jump in on 3 songs playing the floor-tom and china to Anders surprise. Tomorrow will be even worse; security will throw me off stage, that’s my guess...



Carl:
The bad news is that I had planned to go to the erotic’s museum in Copenhagen during the day, but unfortunately I was too hung over to do anything but being miserable for the most part of the day. The good news is that the gig turned out perfectly!


13th of March - Stockholm - Sweden
Venue: Klubben

Tomas:
This day starts so fucking great! We get our own fancy backstage room which Legion soon defiles with something dead that’s creeping out from his black metal ass on the toilet. Today Decadence from Stockholm joined the tour package too and they’re gonna play with us tomorrow too! One of the best crowds on the tour and the gig was rock history! After the show we were all fuelled with adrenaline and out to raise hell. After a turbo shower – 3 min shower with grog in my left hand all the time, I went out to meet up with old friends. When the venue closed all the bands and crew went to this bar called the Rocks. Think I’ll take the scandals that happened there to my grave haha!



Carl:
Expectations for this evening were sky high. Unleashed were doing a gig in their home town and the guest list was crowded with friends eager to party with us. After a great gig we headed out into the drunken haze in downtown Stockholm. Most parts of the tour fellowship ended up at a club called Rocks. I had some drunken whim and decided to pickpocket Legion. The drunken fool didn't notice his wallet was gone so I spent all his cash on booze and black jack.

Legion:
Mad mad show, strong strong after show drink. Jenny from CMR, old friends, more vodka with Helmuth as Carlos from Black Shadows Tattoo and Magazine shows up and joins us for the Rocks afterparty. Good crazy night!



14th of March - Goteborg - Sweden
Venue: Sticky Fingers

Tomas:
The blessings of being on tour – no hang over! Even though I went to bed drunk as fuck I’m waking up and feeling pretty okay. Just not in the mood today. It’s a good show though and it feels sad as always to say good bye to all the new cool friends and the old friends from the crew. When I’m saying good bye to our tour manager Darek he’s saying:
“Are you leaving now Tomas?”
“Yeah, my bus is leaving pretty soon so I must grab a cab and go to the bus station.”
“What about the load out?” he grins and burst out in laughter.
Damn, gonna miss this guy bringing me a good night pizza! Thanks to all the bands and crew involved on this tour and… See ya all again next time!



Legion:
I come down to the bus lounge and Emil, Joinus and Unleashed Anders are giving me a questionable look. "So, how many things did you loose yesterday, really?" they smirk.
I’m trying to think. I know a girl I was talking to took off with my cellphone, my wallet is not in my back pocket but I wanna believe that I left it in my bag yesterday since I had cash in my pants anyways...I’m sure the jacket is somewhere on the bus. Turns out the jacket or wallet is nowhere to be found, fuck it, it’s not my style to get upset or stressed over petty things like that anyways, only bitch is to collect all the phone numbers again, plus the fact that I had melodies and lyrics for Devian III in the recorder of the phone, grrrr.
After a while the guys can’t hold back anymore, laughing they tell me about Carl stealing my wallet, that the girl in Stockholm has called back and can’t remember how she ended up with my phone. And by now I’ve found the receipt for my jacket, it’s still in the closet at Rocks. Nice last show wrap up. Today I’m Anders liquid control guy, after handing him beers between songs I up to redbull Vodka and finally shots haha with his energetic style of playing drums the booze is flying out into his system. I and Carl end the Unleashed set by running out naked onstage.
Thanks Decadence for playing and hanging out the two last ones. Guillotine - Great going and see you again sometime! Helmuth and Belphegorians - Ave! It was a great one! And finally Anders and Unleashed - Thanks, Hail and Kill!! The Massive crew - Always a pleasure. Vacek, Cuba, Fabricio, The Darek, Chris and Chris, see you soon!! Thanks to all the Metalheads that made our nights, we will see you all again!!!



Carl:
I visit Gothenburg far too seldom. I have lots of friends there who should be hanging out with more often. Many of them were on the guest list, so the mad after party was inevitable. Sad to say most of my fellow Devians chickened out and went to Jönköping/Huskvarna right after the show. Disgrace! Luckily our dear Legion couldn't say no to a wild night out in Gothenburg, especially not after I gave him back his empty wallet! Hahaha! Thanks to everybody who made this a memorable tour: the awesome
crew (See you soon! Kurwa!!!), The Guillotines (I know you shat at the bus toilet!), Decadence (Bangare!), Belbegor (Assholes!) and Unleashed (You still owe us a bottle of Jack).



Review in Swedish -http://www.slavestate.se/?d=2009-03-16 


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