The journey continues..

Hamburg, Tuesday the 15th of November

Hey guys,

I'm writing this from our tour bus, we've just left Hamburg for Ludwigsburg, which is about 600 km away(good times!). Our first gig is tomorrow, it hasn't really hit us yet. 

We've had a few eventful days in Copenhagen. We arrived on Saturday evening and went our own separate ways to stay at friends' places. We had our first rehearsal with Jón on Sunday. Jón's old band, Solbrud, were kind enough to lend us their rehearsal space for two days which we are very thankful for! 

We rehearsed on Sunday evening and Monday evening, and especially Monday was a pretty eventful day. Sunday went down without any real problems except that we found out that we were missing one of the foot-switches for one of the guitar amps. When packing the bus in Tórshavn one of the foot-switches was left behind. Thankfully my brother Mattias was supposed to fly back to Copenhagen on Monday so he could take the foot-switch with him and give it to us before we left for Germany. But on Monday morning he called me and said that he was staying for another week, which made us have to find another way to bring the foot-switch to Denmark. We tried to find a foot-switch in Copenhagen, but locating a Single Rectifier foot-switch with one day's notice isn't that easy. We found one, but it was pretty damn expensive. There was a single flight leaving from Vágar to Copenhagen that day. But we're from a small place, so through friends and my brother we managed to get the foot-switch to Copenhagen. 

We spent most of the morning/early afternoon figuring out how to get the foot-switch to Copenhagen. After that we rehearsed for a while, and we had a pretty interesting experience on our way to the rehearsal space. We were driving on a narrow side alley when a police car turned up behind us, sirens blazing. So we had to turn off the road pretty quickly to let the police car pass. After we turned we heard a bang on the side of the bus. It turns out that the police car was chasing a scooter which was doing anything it could to escape the police. The guy actually drove into the side of our bus! He hit it very mildly though, there wasn't even a bump on the car, and the police were too busy chasing the guy to notice that he hit our car.

Anyway, the rehearsal went really well after which we went to pick up the foot-switch at the airport. Thanks Valborg!! And when we had got the foot-switch and packed the car properly came the highlight of the day - hamburgers! If you're ever in Copenhagen, there is a burger bar on Istedgade called Burger & Bun. I've been there twice and I can confidently say that they make the best burgers I've tasted in my life. Seriously, if you're in Copenhagen you don't want to miss them!

Today we left Copenhagen pretty early. We were slightly delayed out of Copenhagen, but since then everything has been going well. The first hour of our drive was really cold(or so I hear - I was asleep) as we didn't have any cooling liquid left in the car, so the heating in the car didn't work. But as soon as we put some cooling liquid in the car it got warm and cozy again and everything went as planned. We had lunch in Hamburg with Jörg of Dragon Productions, who has booked the Dead Tyrants tour. I've been emailing him for almost a year, so it was cool to go out and have lunch and talk face to face. We still can't believe that we're going on this tour and it wouldn't be possible without the amazing cooperation from Dragon Productions.

Alright, that's the update for this time. We're meeting the other guys on the tour and having our first gig tomorrow, so the fun starts now!

Keep it doom,

Theodor