Show Day 4: Köln

Upon arrival our bus driver Artur
wasn’t too excited about a wrongly parked car that was in front of the entrance. Especially since the venue is in a neighborhood and there’s practically no space to reverse a nightliner with trailer (approx. 20 m L, 4 m H & 2,5 m W).

Emily & I even tried to make the car alarm go off, but to no avail. But despite the tight space to reverse Artur nailed it after 10 min of getting in and out of the bus calculating his space. Kudos to the man!

The venue itself is quite legendary because of all the bands/artists that played there over the years. But empty it just looks like your “average” Biergarten with Cigarette Automats & Fritz Kola-signs. This was also the day that Martin (the second driver and drove Nick Cave prior) joined us for a day because Artur had to rest for 9 hrs in London.

What made the 4th day a bit more stressed than other days was the fact that everything was an hour earlier. This is because after Sylvaine & Eivør there is another event. A disco or dance night to make a few bucks more but by a different promoter. Hence the infamous phenomenon dubbed: “Disco load out”. So merch had to be packed and out of the hall at 22:45. Not sure how we managed it but in 25 min we were ready😅Read more