This is not the end

After we posted our last message on this blog, we took a 4h drive through the mountains and tunnels of Austria to this town called Königsdorf in Burgenland.
We played a show in the venue Traverse, which was owned by the father of the singer or guitarplayer of this Austrian band called Faster Pussycat Kill Kill

Shinfo 1: Felix from Dancing On Debris told us that FPKK actually is the name of some softpornmovie. Those kids know what's important!).
Shinfo 2: apparently the best known schlagerband of Germany, Tokio Hotel, played their first show abroad in this venue.

Anyway, when we arrived the kids from FPKK gave us this awesome meal, with quorn and vegetables and I don't know what else. Anyway, it was really tasty and nice.

After we ate and acted goofy with a dog and a ball, we went inside to set up the merchandise (OW SHIIIIT MOSH-ANDIZE) and watch the Pussycat-kids play a really intense show. Hardcore anno 09, it's loud, it's snotty and it's full of energy and a desire to live and be heard. Needless to say but we'll do it anyway: We loved it!

Next up was Nautulus from Vienna, they played a really doomie-type of music. We liked it, but yet again we were supernervous for our own show.
And as it was the day before, this was heavy. It was our last show, so we gave it all. And yet again, after our last song we did the jam with Dancing On Debris, of which the result was filmed and will be on this blog in short time.
Even though we were exhausted, we gave ourselves for the second time to the limit during the show on Dancing On Debris. Sing-a-longs, crowdsurfing, things got teared up... This was probably the most intense show of the whole tour.

So, when the show was over, reality sank in, we had to drive home. There were grouphugs, there were kind words, and yes, even though we were 11 grown up men who play in hardcorebands and look though, there were tears.

The drive home can be cut in these words: long, tiring, farts and WHOPPER TIME!!

We missed the Dancing On Debris guys so much we drove up to Luxembourg on thursday to watch their last show of the tour. We're talking about doing a split record and another tour together. Dancing on Versa FTW!!!

These were probably some of best days of our lives, and we're so gratefull we had this opportunity to meet so many awesome people who touched our hearts in ways that can't be said in just words.

Thank you: Dancing On Debris, Felix, Frederik, Yves, Janis, Renee, Sören, Drama Bookings, Sari, Sabi, Florian, Mamu from Wurzburg, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Franz,... and JELLE (our hero, our teddybear, our friend...).



.Versa

Coffee and lightbeams - Austria doesn't do snow

So,

As you might know if you read our first blogpost, we're on tour, and right now we're in this really nice city called Linz in Austria. The guys from Dancing On Debris and our drummer Jens are all sleeping really tight, so I'll try not to use a lot of Caps Lock.

So, the day before yesterday we arrived here in Linz. We hung out with the people of Drama Bookings (AWESOME kids), drank some beers and acted goofy. Yesterday we hung at the riverside (the Donau is huge) and watched some Duifkes and lelleke maskes.

So, after our acting-like-hippies-near-the-river-and-shouting-dirty-words-time we went to the venue and set up our gear. This venue was like a cellar with a vaulted ceiling, which had this really cool and intimate vibe.
So, first up was this Austrian band called Sommerregen. They played some kind of punkrock. We didn't watch them for their whole set, because it was really warm and we were like supernervous because we were next up.
Our set, it was probably not the tightest, but, the entire atmosphere made it probably the coolest we experienced in the relatively short existence of our band. And to make the whole picture complete the guys of Dancing On Debris joined us after our last song for a 10-minute jam (DANCING ON VERSA FTW!). It was... let's just say words fall short to that wall of sound... After that jam they again played an awesome set. We totally love this band.

Afterwards, we went to this bar and drank some shots and beers. And went to "sleep" which means we drank some more and acted goofy. (Also, Shinfo: the venue we're sleeping in, had this band called This Is Hell last week. And they slept on the same matrasses as we did. Now how cool is that?)


Shelter basement screams
No sleep, good dreams
We're playing as hard as we can
And a whole lotta time stuck in the van



love
.Versa

Tour Diary | Day 1 & Day 2

Hi you all!
We're sitting in front of a gas station right on the border of Austria while we're writing this. But first, let's talk a bit about yesterday. We left Aarschot around 11.00 AM with a 7 hour drive in front of us. Halfway there, obviously, we needed to stop at Burger King to get ourselves a WHOPPER! Njam njam ;)
After a bunch of farts, delicious party tunes and who else knows what (WHOPPER), we arrived at Würzburg around 6.00 PM. After unloading the van we had some sweet chili-something-food which resulted in a bunch of more farts. Afterwards we walked around town and through the park to chill out a bit.
Before the show we drew sticks with the dudes from Dancing On Debris to determine who played first which resulted in us getting the headline position. IS NAAIZ.
Show: GREAT SUCCESZZZZZZ. AIGHT. No really, we really enjoyed playing and the crowd seemed to love it as well! 
Afterwards we went out to town with the guys of DOD to get some tequila BOOMBOOM and some kebab. Around 3.00 AM it was time to hit the sheets!

This morning after a good night rest we refreshed ourselves a bit and started loading the van again. We then went out for breakfast which was possibly the best breakfast all of us have ever eaten. Seriously. By the time we got back to the venue, the guy organizing the show from yesterday told us he wanted to take us up into the hills of Würzburg before we left. The view from there was pretty amazing! Then it was time to leave and 4 hours later, we are where we are right now. 

Oh well, more news tonight or tomorrow, together with a load of pictures to check out.

Auf wiedersehen,
Versa.