Saturday 01 November 2008 at 3:22 pm
1 november 2008
Zurich
I had a bad feeling when we drove into Zurich. Some cities have bad vibes.
We had an accident with a speedy motercycle. No harm thank god. The Aprillia motor had some damage. We worked it out together and the police was very friendly.
Strange coincidence thinking about the 29 oktober dream. The Asian motorcycle guy had the word 'angel' on the back of his jacket and his last name was Lee.
The Zurich venue, El Local was a big bar. Completely packed. Very difficult to get from the 'dressing room' to the stage. you had to walk through the crowd. Kinda scary.
Many technical problems on stage and a bossy barowner who said we sounded too much like 16 horsepower and wanted Daniel to sing more songs. No way.
Back in the designed prison cell hotelroom.
I woke up and could not find the toilet. I panicked and stumbled around and found it, feeling hazed and confused. I fainted and fell on the bathroomfloor. Wake up and thought i was dying. Had to concetrate on my breathing to calm down. I slept a few hours on the bathroomfloor and crawled back into bed.
The next moring i felt a little better but slept in the backseat of our van the whole way to Hamburg, a city with real good vibes. We played there a last month during the Reeperbahn festival. We talked about my attack and thought it was some kind of hyper ventilation. I had the same thing a couple of years ago.
Thank god we dit not have to play that evening. The next morning i felt okay again. With Sean and Soundmen Geert, who is in real live a fitness instructor we found a sauna in the hotel. I felt reborn.
Tonight we play in the venue were Leonard Cohen performed yesterday. He probably slept in the same hotel but didn't show up in the sauna.

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