BERLIN grande finale - K17

hey hou jou jou!

So Berlin was the last one but not in any way the least, because we were even promoted from open-act to the second band of the bill for the last event.

Our ferry arrived to Rostock 14.00 and we were off to the big B. But soon there was some trouble blooming. We got stuck there in the Berlin's way 'cause of a trafficjam, a ka deutsche STAU, and continued our journey at the mindblowing speed of 20km/h for a few hours. How cool is that! Not.

So after spending an eternity travelling to Berlin we finally arrived to the city sub-urban, and of course we haven´t got a clue where the hell the K17 venue was. After some sweating in the bus without the f*cking GPS (remember the gypsies...) our decision was to call a taxi and we asked it to drive in front of our car and lead us to the venue. Of course the taxidriver grandpa was an "old-school" taxi gentlemen and he drove and searched the place like one hour because he was lost as he didn´t have the gps navigator either, and didnt actually know where the venue was. We were following him as fast as we could (looked our watchies that we should be on-stage
in an hour..) but he was still furious about our driving being too slow.

We made it there eventually and had less than 30 min. to the beginning of our gig. There was this one band before us luckily and as they played we got ourselves ready and did a world record in line-checking (5 min.), even Nile guys and Massive Music roadies said that this is the fastest
load-in / check they´ve seen! The gig itself was excellent, the venue was full and rocking and we squeezed the last OG-juices to the Berliner face - Thank u Berlin, we wish you well!

Here's the setlist of the evening for ya:
Undertaker / Nail / Into Sea / Shadowkey / Shapes and Shades / Writhen / Redshifter / Spiritual / Chameleon Skin

After the gig there was some farewell partying with the Massive Music guys, Severe Torture dudes and Nile gentlemen et all. We were bought some finnish minttu/salmiakki liquor stuff to the tour personnel, and they liked it. Mihail the roadie liked it the most and it was seen well after he drank one bottle of the stuff and was happier and hornier than ever that we´ve seen. Now we had also some courage at last to ask Nile manager/sound engineer "Punchy" about Morbid Angel, which he has done a lot of work with + some other sagas from the Florida death metal scene. Aaand we listened!

After the evening we were back on the road again - Pikka bros and Kalke our sound man were transported to the Berlin airport as the yuppies wanted to fly back home asap. We who are not as others (yuppies) stayed in Germany two days still and went back home with Tallink ferry from Rostock with all our gear an' stuff.

So, this concludes the ITHYPHALLIC / RIDING THE REDSHIFT OVER EUROPE tour and we head to continue to the Finnish leg of the "Riding The Redshift" tour, see ya Finnsters there! Finnish fans have to show their nails now as the Europe did it well!

After a while we´ll be uploading some tour pictures to this dear diary, so stay tuned or un-tuned!

-[ camp og's ]-