Fighting Cougars storm Germany baby !!!

[My First Kev]

heres a wee tour diary of our recent stint in Germany with Los Destructos and german punkers Alliance and emo punks Kassiopiea

Roschtock - gig on a boat. the inside looked very much like a secene from Buffy the Vampire slayer or a slipknot video, all industrial themes and severed pinheads. we played terribly and got all the other bands worried. we did however get some good fucked up video footage of me in my boxers.

Lubek - the best thing about Germany is that unlike Britain the bands drink for free. 15 beers and 6 Jagermeister ech and we were all pretty fucked. Los Destructos played till about 3am and we all stayed up drinking till about seven. Roddy was so drunk he cuts his shoelaces with a knife so he could get into bed shoeless.

Flemsburg - Another good thing about German punks, they all live in big fuck off shared houses and let bands play in the massive basements. this is what we did this evening. after a decent set by all the bands we managed to drink the place dry. Then me and drummer boy Ryan went for a swim in the local harbour at around 4am - i got the cold and ryan cut his face.

Hanover - today we played in the basment of a slaughterhouse - as if that wasnt scary enough the pa was playing a Finnish polka band doing covers of Under the Bridge and Gimmie all Your Lovin. The gig was patchy but fun.

Halle - we got stopped by the police and fined 3oo euroes today why? i dunno driving around in a big crazy punk van and not having the right haircut i guess. Today i also saw a kebab shop with a pub in it.

Dresden - Another day another show ina shed. We played in various states of undress with Roddy running around bollock naked cvered in shaving foam. members from all the bands performed acoustic hip hop on bar tables afterwards.

Berlin - Today we saw a punk poet - basicly a middle aged woman shouting, with a younger women dancing around in a mask and tutu with a bloke playing an out of tune guitar. As for us, best show we have played - we were on fire baby, if i do say so myself...mass moshing and hijinks abound.

well thats it, im still in Berlin just now and im gonna be home wednesday - i smell and i miss my girlfriend but im alive and had fun - c yall later.

[Rich]

[deadmike]

your livin' the dream....

[Becca Bomb]

hehe, sounds cool! rock n roll

[MotioN]

fucking awesome! we need to go to Germany!

[Scooter]

Deutschland uber alles!

Originally Posted by My First Kev

Flemsburg - Another good thing about German punks, they all live in big fuck off shared houses and let bands play in the massive basements.

You didn't hear anybody call these 'ocupated houses' did you? It would explain something that someone said to me.

Ritchie.

[Rich]

Is it true that an average pint in Germany is much stronger than ours?

[thurisaz]

German licensing laws apparently. if it aint above 4.8% it aint a beer, tis a soft alcoholic driunk or some shit.

emmm, heres a ruight up I did a while agao (I was playing guitar for the cougars.)

Well, arrived in germany, got dinner, went to the drummer from Alliance's flat to drink and wtach the football (Czech vs Greece). Half way through, went to get more beer and met some crazy local who took us to his fav pub, bought us beers and told us how he used to roadie for The Who, The Rolling Stones and how Richie Blackmore was into Voodoo and was using his guitar to conduct black magic.

Next day, met all other bands and drove to Rostock for first gig. Got to the venue, a BOAT. MS Stubnitz (www.stubnitz.com). Huge venue, big stage with working video screens and filming from multiple angles while each band played. Then got drunk, set my jacket on fie by mistake, went outside and climbed a massive crane. I then went to bed, but the otehrs apparently got into trouble for smoking in one of the cabins. Next morning I looked across the water to see a boat named "BASTARD" hahahahaha.

Next day, played in Leubech. Nice squat and a CRAZY gig. Even though I broke like 4 strings on 3 different guitars. People liked it, lots of moshing, LOTS of beer and then I ended up going to some girls house, smoking a bong and passing out.

Next day, Flensburg. Really fuckign big club/house (not a squat I found out) and one of the girls who lived there turns out I met in Utrecht(HOLLAND) last year when VOA were on tour. Gig went really well. Although we were own early, towards the end of the football final, but more people came in during the set and seemed to enjoy it. After the gig, they turned into it into a disco. With retro tunes like emmm, well, weird shit, i cant remember much, free beer ruined my memory.Highlight was apparently me smoking too much and passing out behind the merch desk then waking up covered in Los Destructos stickers (about 20 of them) and trying to talk even though one was over my mouth. I decided it was time for bed. Next day we had off, so we just stayed in Flensburg, drank, smoked blah blah blah. Did get to jam and learnt an Oi Polloi cover (Nuclear Waste) with Ole from Kassiopeia on guest guitar.

So next day was, emmmm, somewhere else in germany. It was Bremen. Emmm, I cant remember Bremen. Weird. AHHHHHH, I REMEMBER!!!! It was in a real nice club/youth centre next to a skate park
Was a good gig with us on last I believe, and the Koas Punks fucking loved it. Even dedicated "crash your car" to some guy who had tried hitchhiking from london to Ullapool once. Poor guy. But yeah, good gig. Wasn't too drunk, but really stoned, so went to some all night pub then to bed in some guys flat. Got breakfast at an anarcho punk café, was really good.

Then, hanover (yuck). It was okay, the place. But the venue wasn't too nice. Really evil looking kaos punks looked like they just wanted to bite our heads off. did find a Voice of Aggression sticker in the toilet which was weird, since well, until then, none of the members of VOA had ever been to Germany, let alone that place. Its cool. Anyway, only first two bands could play outside on the big stage befoe the cops turned up. So us and Los Destructos had to play inside in a tiny fuckign room which could only hold about 20 ppl, and the pothers watched from the balcony. There was some crazy drugged up girl who kept telling us how much she loved us and wanted to marry us. So afterwards, went to a swquat where I smoked three bongs and thought I was dead, until someone stuck on Wolfbrigade - In Darkness You Feel No Regrets LP. SO I listened to that, then went to bed. Threw away my lenses in a stoned haze though so next morning I couldn't see a thing and Roddy (vox of Fighting COugars) had to escort me around and help me find breakfast.

Then halle. Only got one crate of free beer, and only 8 ppl payed in, but there was quite a few koas punks there regardless who liked it. We got so FUCKING drunk by buying our own crates and invented the 'Grind-Box'. Like a beat box, but grindcore style. YAS. Yeah, I was drunk, I think it was 6 AM when I went to bed. We were drinking Sternberg, which i found out gives you the worst hangover ever. All fo us were like zombies in the morning.

OKay, so then onto Dresden. 1 of the minibuses had to go back to Berlin, so we crammed about 7 people in the back of the van. But then the cops pulled us over. didnt really do much, but only 6 of us could get back in the van and the others had to get a train to Dresden. But got there, free beer. Sternberg though, but fuck it. We drank it. Got Excepotionally drunk, I shat in the bushes, played naked, rapped, stood naked on a tabl;e with Roddy, passed out outside, Roddy pissed on my leg and we played live Buckaroo with some passed out fat bastard. hehehehe.

Last gig was next day in Berlin, which was a crazy festival. Some fucking nutcase English poets were on, and it was shite. Then some 50 year olds who though they were rock gods went on before us, They were shite as well. So then we played. And everyone loved us. Dying for some punk rock. Was ace. "All hippies should hang". So again, got really drunk, I walked about in a gimp mask and then some old girl took a liking to me. I ended up at hers doing tyhe obvious then left the next morning and sat by the van for 3 hours, tripping, until someone picked me up.

Next 2 days were kinda boring, days off, getting drunk and stoned, but last day was ace. Went to see Tronn from Brazil got so fuckign drunk, took some Danish travellers back to the squat,. got stopped by the police, LOTS of police, liek we were the mafia or something.



Long I know, but it tells the story.

[My First Kev]

Next morning I looked across the water to see a boat named "BASTARD" hahahahaha.


we played live Buckaroo with some passed out fat bastard. hehehehe.


got stopped by the police, LOTS of police, liek we were the mafia or something.


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cheers for reminding me of all this, Dave

Did you see the pohtos of the bukaroo guy? he had like, 4 chairs, a cardbox and potted plant on him before he woke up


bwahahahahahaha !!!!

[thurisaz]

I saw pictures, but I dont think I saw a picture of buckaroo. god he was one ugly fucking bastard!!!