We arrived in this small city yesterday afternoon having spent the morning wandering round Hamburg, i got to see a couple of the non sleazy parts of Hamburg, it truly is an amazing city with multiple personalities. Great place!! Kiel is a much smaller port town in the north of Germany, really really modern and quite nice with a very young student population. We had time for a good walk around the place, i also stumbled upon an Iranian fast food joint where i was able to show off my small few words of farsi and impeccable pronounciation to the Gaffer, he was duly unimpressed of course.
Just like practically every other venue on the tour so far, the Prinz Willy was a really nice place with its own unique style. The owner and staff were really nice and the atmousphere was very relaxed. As the crowd filed in for the gig i could tell it was gonna be a good night, the place packed up within about 15 minutes. The gig itself was great, lots of folks genuinely into the music...there was one complete cunt in the audience who could'nt sit down or shut up and was going around tormenting everyone in the place including myself but other than that it was all positive. I rattled through loads of tunes, playing a lot from my first album cos thats the one thats out in Germany at the minute. The germans have an alternative way of asking for one more tune, they continue clapping until you eventually return. It took me a while to figure this out, two nights ago in particular i was taking a shit immediately after playing and they continued to clap until i came back...If the Germans want another tune you better give it to them!!!!!
Like i mentioned earlier, out accomodation for the night was on the couches in the venue, the only problem with that was we were fucking knackered but still had to wait for the last punters to leave before getting our shit together and bedding down for the night. Germany doesn't really have any set closing time in a lot of cases, as long as people are having fun and spending money the bar can continue to serve gargle...what a country!!
In the next hour or two we leave for Hamburg once again where im gonna catch a flight to Oslo to be picked up by my Norwegian booker Kai Jarre and then were gonna head to Halden for my first of three Norway gigs. I played Halden with the band about two months ago and it was really amazing, great people, a real music loving town.
Ill be sad to leave Germany but i know ill be back for sure in November.
More drivel tomorrow folks
TMSxxx
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