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Tour diary “4 days – 4 countries”: March 3 to March 6For those who stayed at home, we took a few photos and wrote a little diary to go with it.
March 3: Kleinweiler Hofen (D)
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March 4: Ischgl (A)
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Tour diary, March 3:
Is fearing for his fine
culture of playing table ice hockey because there are no worthy challengers in sight: Campino The meeting point is Munich. At the airport and the main train station, a battalion of two hundred volunteers is setting off in busses to be part of this year’s endurance test. Meanwhile, Andi and I are already on our way to Kleinweilershofen, to scout the village. We arrive at the local club “Sonneck” around midday, grab a broom and start sweeping through the place. Two new bulbs, a quick look over the amount of drinks in stock, a few cables to lay, and the joint is ready for the night to come. We drink coffee, eat cake, play table ice hockey. I am greatly disturbed by the poor playing level of my travel companions! Sound-check is over and one by one, the busses arrive. The ladies and gentlemen working for our record label are evidently enjoying their company outing to the full: they have all agreed to singing the Düsseldorf battle cry “Cologne, Cologne, the shit from the dome”.
"Babble babble"
Our backstage space is above the bar room, and next to us lives a family with children who in all probability will be allowed to stay up longer tonight – it’s bound to get loud. They spontaneously offer their kitchen/living room for us to spend our waiting time. T.V. Smith, who will be supporting us in the following days, is rehearsing a track with Breiti and Kuddel that we’ll play together later tonight. I’m desperately trying to remember the lyrics of some of our early-time classics, which we want to play again tonight after many, many years. Can any of you still recall “Frühstückskorn”, “Abitur”, or “Fernsehen” – without any mistakes, that is?
Wölli’s new occupation
isn’t easy at all. Finally, the concert, which turned out just the way it should be: full to the brim, terribly hot (even though roadie Elmar had smashed a few windows before to allow for some air circulation) and great fun for everyone present. There were some exciting moments for us when we played new songs from our album “Unsterblich” and saw how they were received by the audience. Even the old songs were greeted enthusiastically, only “Hahnenkampf” turned out to be a little too fast for most people. Well, it’s been a few years since the old ZK-days.
They had it coming:
DTH live! There is only one drop of bitterness: OUR SOUND SYSTEM ISN’T LOUD ENOUGH! How embarrassing! I can’t remember when this last happened to us. You can just about hear it when someone turns a spoon in his coffee cup at the far end of the club. We’ll have to think of something before tomorrow night. The evening ends very comfortably, with a few beers in the club and then a bus ride to the hotel. No big excess, because I have to be fit for tomorrow: Uli Hiemer has been so unbearably loudmouthed that he needs to be outclassed on the ski run.
Vom: "Anybody got a
funny cigarette?" Unfortunately, we had to realise this Saturday morning, when leaving for Ischgl, that we’re not the only people fleeing carnival: another 10,000 Dutch, Belgian, and German people are also seeking retreat in the mountains. We’ve been standing in the traffic jam for three hours now and don’t seem to moving the slightest inch... Tomorrow, read all about: will the traffic jam ever dissolve? Can Campino cut DEG legend Uli Hiemer (Düsseldorf Ice Hockey Team) down to size? How will Faust get onto the top of the mountain? Where is Wölli? And will the sound at last be loud enough?
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