Italian Alternative Rock band BETTY POISON’s Lucia Rehab has issued the following European Tour Report:
Aachen (Germany)
We start off in Germany, in Aachen, Charles the Great’s ancient Aquisgraine, which is to say “home” to us, who are often here. A good gig, filled with friends, expectations and over-the-counter snacks. The mood grows rapidly alcoholic and before my eyes run the snapshots of the opening concert of a tour that is going to prove absolutely unforgettable.
Roman, the incredibly blonde drummer of Pandora, had his hair laboriously straightened… and I say laboriously because, due to his extremely curly hair, the result was only partially achieved, which proves evident twenty minutes into the gig, when his hair explodes turning him into a tree. On the other hand, after the concert he turns into a socialist and wanders around claiming “equity and equal opportunities in the world”, but also claiming not to want to be “the asshole who makes decisions”, for which reason I should not vote for him as my president.
Meanwhile, Mirko and Nunzio dance some kind of acrobatic rock’n’roll in the middle of the club and Annika, Pandora’s singer, expresses her enthusiasm jumping about like a rabbit. We get back home very late and, since we are starving, we stop in front of a fast food and have a long discussion about what we should order, before realizing that it is closed. We get back to Eupen, our belgian base, twenty minutes away from Aachen, and settle for the remains of a barbecue we had the night before. Then we finish packing. This is the last night we spend here: from tomorrow on and for the next three weeks we are due…. everywhere!
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