Show Day 10: Paris

Last night in Bristol we ended with our second disco load out of the tour. Which was great… Especially stairs in and out of the boat nearly killed me, the high steps were just brutal. The tiredness was getting to me a bit, but the curry we for dinner made it all better. Finished the load out at 22:30 and bus call wasn’t until 00:30. So Nina and I did our daily admin in the upper lounge while Theodor was seeing what film to put on. Starship Troopers it was! Kathrine, Theodor, Gwenael we’re up for it and Nina and myself continued our Indian food downstairs sharing it with Per and after that it was time (1:30-ish) to hit the hay.

Woke up around 6:30 in Dover and went through customs again before we went on the ferry to Calais. Then I realized we were going to be late for load in at the venue in Paris. This was due to the time difference (BST and CEST), so we lost one hour and on top of that Konrad had to take a 45 min break before we got to Paris. Arrived around 15:30 and luckily for us there were 4/5 stage hands ready to help us with getting the gear/merch boxes upstairs.

The venue Le Trianon is in a beautiful theater styled building with lots of marble and wood. Compared to the space we had in Bristol, Paris was huge. After load in and finally got to take a much needed shower, last one was in Glasgow. I enjoyed that one! Emily got us some great sandwiches from this place called Fric Frac, but we didn’t have time to eat until Eivør’s showtime. The first hour was really stressful because once doors opened and people crowded the merch stand, our internet reception went from bad to worse. And 15 mins into selling I got thrown out of SumUp and had to log in again, but I had no reception at that point. Aaarrrrgh! But after 10 mins or so we decided that Nina would do the SumUp for the people that wanted to pay by card and I did all the ones with cash, while writing down the amount and sizes of hard/soft merch. During Sylvaine’s set I fixed the problem and all went well. Did really good and the signing session Eivør did was a big success. Around 23:15 we started packing up and loading out because the venue curfew was at midnight.

As soon as we all had packed and dumped our luggage at the hotel we hit the town to party! Met up with stagemanager Jas whom I met during Fensch Viking Fest last month right before this tour started. Good seeing him again and party some more at the Backstage by the Mill where I played with Helleruin the year before on the Deströyer 666, Bodyfarm-tour. At some point the party group decided to go back to the hotel for a little afterparty in Mikael’s room. Henning had a bottle of gin and Nina and Per got some juice to mix it up. Finally at 4:30 Egil and I called it a day and went to our rooms while the rest partied some more. Good times!Читать далее