VADER – Tour Blog Day 17-18. – “Blitz South America In Fire Tour 2015”

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Polish death metal icons VADER are currently on their “Blitz South America In Fire Tour 2015”. Check out all the tour dates and venues on the poster below. Now the band has issued the tour blog for the day 17-18., read it here:

Day 17: Bogota – Piotr “Peter” Wiwczarek

After morning incentive and short flight we arrived to Colombia. I recalled our previous tour in South America with Marduk, when we were deported to Ecuador after local promotor did not make paper work properly. This time all went cool and quick and guards helped us in immigration procedure instead of pushing us with machine guns back to the plain. We were picked up by local promoters and drove to the hotel by tide vane (with stuff on our knees). The difference in comfort between Panama and Colombia was so huge Spider got a room with …no window). Something like cheap hotels for workers in Poland in 80’s. There was no better situation in the club either. We lost many hours until all was working properly. All had to be set up from scratch. Sound desk was situated in small backstage ASIDE the stage 😉

The show was but absolutely amazing! Club was filled up to the limit and Fans were moshing non stop. We ended quite late and after few pictures and signing we just drove back to hotel.

Day 18: Menizales – Piotr “Peter” Wiwczarek

This time we had „ground transportation”. 300 kilometers long distance supposed to be made in 6 hours. But it took more than 11 tho… Small Mercedes bus – build yet in 70’s I guess – picked us up about 11 AM. 90% were mountain roads with never ending curves. The quality was more like in Ukraine than in Germany. On the way we pulled over to eat something in small road bar in a little town. It was grill this time. It was like a travel back in time… Urinals next to the tables, where people were just eating their lunch, old style juke box with immortal Wham! or country like style of interiors. We did not meet Wojtek Cejrowski tho 😉

However our bus ceased to work properly. Soon we had to stop for a minute after each 200 meters drive. It was real scary with all the abyss around and big tracks charging in front of us. It was deep night too. No fun at all… About 20 km before our destination the bus died. Next hour was fixing it and a coffee in the road bar. Spider found a wooden mask in a gift store. Drivers fixed (no idea how?) engine at last and after almost 12 hours trip we arrive at the venue. Benediction was already seeing up on stage (it was small festival). For next hour Daniel was working with sound system and stage setting and we were preparing gear and uniforms. All were tired totally. Fans too… It was already after midnight and there was still a lot of freaks in front of stage till the end of our set. However it was not as wild as a day before in Bogota tho. Then hotel and BED !!!