‘i want you’ live at the aberdeen hogmanay

thanks to marias dad for shooting this nice little vid! :) count the people, it should be 25.000…

in scotland with a band called travis

here are some impressions from our first visit to scotland. some videos will follow soon as well.

this was backstage at the famous barrowland in glasgow known as probably the best venue in the world.

soundchecking …

… and the gig …

a view from the stage in aberdeen during travis’ soundcheck.

and this is how we looked like on the stage.

some of the 25000 people

the bathtub in our suite in aberdeen. nice innit?! :)

xx nick

us with fran, dougie and andy /// till there was you

this was in zurich on 24th october 07 when fran, dougie and andy joined us to play ’till there was you’ together.

thanks a lot to andrea from italy for that great video!!

munich w/ TRAVIS performing ’till there was you’ together

REPORT TRAVIS SUPPORT REPORT TRAVIS SUPPORT REPORT

so here we go:

first of all THANKS A LOT to all the fantastic email responses we got! we are very very happy that so many people liked us that much! :)) and another big THANK YOU to all of you who bought our cd… we’re SOLD OUT SOLD OUT SOLD OUT!! :) this was a limited hand made single cd and it will never ever be released in that very special way again. so you all bought a really unique thing. :) there were a couple of questions we got during the shows with travis and a few came up quite often…
1. when will you be releasing an album?
2. do you have a record deal?
3. how did you get the support shows?
4. why have we never heard of you before?
5. are you brother and sister?
6. are you really german?
and some more i forgot…but if you have a question please ask… we’ll be answering it if its a good one! :)

so what about the answers… well ok, here they are:
1. when will you be releasing an album?
we don’t know yet but we try to release one as soon as possible!

2. do you have a record deal?
NO

3. how did you get the support shows?
we blackmailed TRAVIS!

4. why have we never heard of you before?
we don’t know… we appear on every single kellogs package and every single second there is a tv ad in every country of the world about the taste… so maybe you never ever had kellogs cornflakes or you just have to stop going for a pee while the ads are running.

5. are you brother and sister?
we wish we were so we wouldn’t have needed to get married.

6. are you really german?
no, we are british but we thought its much cooler pretending to be german.

….hope that could help you a bit… :)

now the other stunning stuff… PHOTOS, VIDEOS. we’ll be posting them from time to time during the next few days and weeks. including a fab fab Fab FAb FAB video of us and dougie, andy and fran performing “till there was” you together in zurich which was soooo much fun unbelievable! :) best gig ever! :)

AGAIN we’d like to thank all of you for the wonderful time! all listeners during the shows, all writers of emails, all the people that were shooting pics and videos of us, all nice words we got from you, all hundreds of people that bought one of our cd, buttons, t-shirts, all the TRAVIS staff (we miss you all!!!), our wonderful sound engineer we had from the TRAVIS crew (we miss you too!!!), and last but not least TRAVIS TRAVIS TRAVIS for one of the best time we had in our live so far!!! THANK YOU GUYS…. you are brilliant! :)

THANK YOU yours
maria

ps: we have a lot going on in 2008!!! stay ONLINE! :)
hugs

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photo by holger menzel, myspace.com/holgermenzel

photo by holger menzel, myspace.com/holgermenzel

photo by holger menzel, myspace.com/holgermenzel

photo by holger menzel, myspace.com/holgermenzel

photo by holger menzel, myspace.com/holgermenzel

photo by holger menzel, myspace.com/holgermenzel

photo by holger menzel, myspace.com/holgermenzel

cologne w/ travis

click here to read a very very nice review about the show yesterday.

it was a really fabulous show yesterday… we rarely had a gig with such a warm and friendly atmosphere, the audience was amazing, like being in a room with a lot of good friends. and travis was so excellent!! we were watching the show from the stage, sitting near the guitar tech next to andy. what an experience!!

this is the end

well… that was it… unfortunately… we’re back in munich again. last show in wakefield was ace. we’ll be there again in november! :)

the way home was terribly long… took us more than 24 hours… but we’re really proud of our new van. did i already mention that it’s our own? absolutely reliable… not the tiniest break-down!

this is a funny sign from a belgium service station:

i took the next picture while i was driving. must’ve been 4 or 5 a.m.. can you find frank on it? :) (he’s probably gonna be mad at me for posting this pic… hehe…)

well, i’d like to send three big thank yous to al from the x, nav and james for letting us stay at their houses (again!). we’re looking forward to the next couple of gigs here in germany and austria… it’s hopefully gonna be some more in the next few weeks. and we’re happy to announce that we’ll be back in the uk for a short one week tour in october / november.

much love,
nick

the end is near

lobby of etap hotel leeds again. yesterday manchester. awesome show! very small venue and no big crowd but the sound was great and the audience loved it. beautiful landscape between leeds and manchester! typically english, almost how i imagine scotland but i think it’s even much more beautiful up there. we drove on the highest motorway in england… 372 meters… sounds a bit funny for us bavarians living near the alps… even munich is higher. :)

we stayed at the hatters hostel right in the center of manchester. if anyone plans to go to manchester and doesn’t know where to stay go there! it’s fantastic! clean, quiet and cheap. plus you get toast, tea and coffee 24 hours for free.

went to see foals at the roadhouse after our show because the promoter there put as on the guestlist. never heard of them before but they really really kicked ass!! f***ing brilliant!! check them out: myspace.com/foals.

leeds was ace as well! the mixing tin is pretty small and right in the centre of leeds. the crowd was amazing, we had a lot of fun! went to a couple of clubs after the show with james from duels. maria and frank got really wasted. i was the driver… arrrghh… but it was fun anyway… (no one actually needs alcohol to have fun). stayed in duels house again that night. they had to get up very early because they had to go to london to play at the 93 feet east but we could sleep in anyway.

the music here in the lobby sucks… ibiza sound… just bought ruby on itunes and listen to this now. :) brilliant song!! and finally bought sabotage as well hehe. :)

looking forward to wakefield later on. legendary club night with an amazing band headlining. should be a good one.

xx
nick

hanging out

after sitting in the hotel lobby for probably 4 hours we finally went to the city centre again. had some pizza and cocktails. still didn’t see the nasty side of leeds. :)

there isn’t much more to say actually but we took some nice pics.

good night,
nick

live at the x

many thanks to jed who took and sent us this pic! we played with his band ‘monkey puzzle’ in oxford.

a day in the life of a pc user

for your pleasure:

xx maria

leeds

we’re sitting in the lobby of the etap hotel in central leeds drinking tea, hot chocolate, orange juice and surfing the internet – all for free!! :) well… actually it’s only maria and i who are surfing the internet. frank doesn’t get connected with his crappy pc laptop once again… haha! :)

this hotel is awesome. it’s brand new and really central and cheap and we have a flat screen tv and… yeah… just great!! :)

we had sushi for lunch in a restaurant where they offer unlimited miso soup and green tea!! why isn’t there something like that in munich?! after that a little, very very tasty dessert at a pret-a-manger and after that a coffee at starbucks – venti size. what else can one dream of?! :)

leeds is such a nice city! we heard a lot about leeds being rough and scummy (mostly from people from the south…) but everything we see is pleasant! the people are friendly, the streets and houses in the city centre look beautiful, lots of nice flowers… we’re so comfortable here. i assume there must be an ugly side to leeds, what else are kaiser chiefs singing about…?! but i couldn’t see it so far. maybe we really move here at some point…

here some photos of us trying to look cool in front of a fancy door in leeds. :)

xx nick

waiting in barnsley

arrived in bransley an hour ago. already set up. now waiting for the sound guy to turn up. you spend most of the time on tour with waiting… for the tech, for other bands, for the sound check, for the gig, for getting the stuff back in the van… almost the rest of the time you spend driving from one gig to the other. oh yeah and then there’s also some 30 minutes in which you can play some songs. :)

maria and frank are fiddling around and i use the time to write these few words. yesterday our last london gig. we played with two really heavy rocking bands. one was from austria called loxodrom. both were really good though it’s not so much my style of music. the gig was really fun though. here some pics of the venue before the show:

it’s a bit annoying that we can’t show you any pics from us playing. but we’re here “alone” and we don’t have anyone taking photos while we’re playing. it’s a pity. i’d also like to take a live video. i brought my camera but there’s just no chance to place it when we’re playing.

frank is again fighting to get online with his pc laptop. haha! :)

really looking forward to the last four shows. everyone says playing up north is much more fun than london. well, we’ll see.

so long,
nick

bull and gate

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i’m sitting here at bull and gate and the headlining band is sound checking. they are frecking loud…we’re on first today which is perfect as we do the smoothiest thing today. :))
we went to camden market before which was really cool. i bought three t-shirts handpainted style. all in all a very sunny day with lots of things to see.

tomorrow we head up north..i’m really looking forward to that…especially manchester as we have have never played there before but also leeds cause we meet duels again..should be a great rest of the week. the last show will be louder than bombs, i’m really looking forward to that as this should be a very busy night and we’ll do the show with komakino….check them out, they are a really really good band!

xxx maria

day off in london and shopping

our second day off today.

took a train to victoria and went to east central first to do a little sight-seeing: bank of england, mansion house, the diagon alley (!), the monument.

then split. frank went on sight-seeing round shoreditch and jack the ripper territory. maria and i went to topman at oxford circus and shopped for about 3 hours. bought tons of great stuff! :)

in the evening we had dinner at a garfunkels restaurant. i tried cottage pie. traditional english food: beef, mince sauce and mashed potatoes. was pretty good but i didn’t taste any mince.

tomorrow bull and gate. will go to the camden town market before the gig. hopefully it’s open on easter.

well, have very good night and happy easter to y’all!
xx nick