Cal's "brothers in arms" tour diary!

bridget frenzy · 1st July 2004, 04:24 PM

ok folks....heres a breif insight into some of the shinanigans we got up to with mistake us for friends on tour last week....i have probably missed out most of the funny shit so if anyone else remembers anything cool fire away!!

DAY 1
Ready to set off i called Rye who was supposed to be getting picked up within the next 10 minutes only to find the wee nipper hadn't even woken up yet....after an hour of scratching has balls and putting cress seeds in his ass we finally left to pick up the rest of the gang at a rather ungodly 730am.
After a swift pit stop to collect Gary and Damo we finally hit Hamilton about 1030 to be greeted by half of MUFF and beanzy's gran who i have to say is a lovely wee woman.
We packed the rest of our stuff into the van with the mountains of equipment and set off to collect steve MUFF and fill up the van with fuel.

A few hours on the road and a few service station stops to fill up on meat based snacks and yakults found us hitting Wakefeild late afternoon only to find a multitude of england flags, shirts, & scuba diving sets emblazoned all over the shop!

Trust 2 scottish punk rock bands to be booked to play a venue that was also hosting live footage of the England V Portugal game that afternoon! After unloading the van, doing a soundcheck and waiting around for a few hours hoping to god that the mob of england fanatics next door didnt come through and put pool cues through our faces we finally got on later than scheduled due to the penalty shoot out etc....get it up ye!

the main problem for us that night was that i went out to the van for a quick joint before we went on and ended up completely out of my tits on seans new blend of super weed! but despite this we had a good show as did MUFF and venue owner extraordinare Mr Malky ("we was robbed"....top bloke!) was well sound and made videos of both our sets.
We never had anywhere to stay that night either so he was nice enough to let us leave all the equipment in the venue over night so we could all fit in the van.

After a lovely lock in and a few carry out beers (see tour pics!) we all settled down in the van to sleep.......only to be awoken at about 8am by delivery drivers needing access to the venue! BASTARDS!

DAY 2
Halfway through a lengthy drive to Coventry, we stopped at a service station hosting alovely burger king (fucking Â£4 for a burger! what a lot of pish!) to which beanzy exclaimed he was off fast food all tour! but fair play the lad kept his word and wasn't caught snacking on fast food at all for the rest of't week!

After finding the venue...the jailhouse (which was a fucking classy joint!) we mucked about with an american football for a few hours and washed ourselves down with baby wipes before being fed a lovely baked potato and chilli by the venue! soundchecks ahoy before kicking into a set in front of about 10 people!!
As shit as it sounds it was actually a really good show and the sound was immense! i cracked into the Stella's during MUFF's set and ended up doing beatdowns onstage during set the world!

We ended up back in a guy called Krissy's flat....sound bloke but i was a bit disturbed by the amount of models of dead, deformed babies he had kicking about his flat! nothing mattered though after a good few hours on the sauce and weed and the floor was comfortable as fuck! we made some helmets from beer crates and listened to some "cyber metal" before hee hawing it off to bed.

PS MUFF...your wee box smells like rat pee!
DAY 3
i awoke with a Doll stuck to my face and we got on our way, one of the guys mates who stayed there last night asked for a lift into town so we obliged. Whilst the geezer was getting into the van Stu MUFF slammed the door on his hand by mistake, completely trapping his finger in it! fucking sore as hell!! he had a massive blue indent in his hand and he was screaming like a cat with a firework up its jimson!

Anyway we set off for a monster drive to a small town in the deep south called Andover where we were to play with 2 Day rule. We got there to find the street was closed for some hippy festival so we had to park miles away (22nd right on the left of roundabout 48) and lug the gear to the hall.
it was only really a town hall with a small PA so we were a bit apprehensive about the sound etc but after the soundchecks realised it was all going to be cool as hell....especially since there were hundreds of kids queing outside!

The show was really good and the kids kicked off a monster pit and even flung in the strange new idea of doing the macarena in a big line at a punk show which was eh....cool! Muff and two day rule rocked the place out and the local band 'paul went home' were on rocking form too.The show was rounded up with us getting some pics taken with a young lass who was strangely obssesed with getting her huge norks out for tit lads! (see pics!)

After finding out we had no accoimodation again the very nice guys in 2DR found us a palce to crash!! only problem is it was at one of there houses in bristol....which is right on the west coast. We decided it was better driving 2 hours for a decent sleep than attempting to fit 8 people in a 4 people space!

thanks again to craig from 2DR for letting us crash at his house....complete with about 80 beds and a lovely warm shower to wash the 3 day old vaseline from my crotch.

bridget frenzy · 1st July 2004, 04:24 PM

Day4
After a bit of a lie in we finally left Bristol on route for london which was only a couple of hours away, we were making great time so we stopped off at a service station for a few hours to chill out and waste some time. We got the american footer out again then decided it would be fun to set of the vans fire extinguisher! A few joints and the heaviestrain forrest'esque rain shower iv'e ever seen later and we decided we should hit the road again.

We hit houndslow, london late afternoon to find the rifleman which from the front just looked like a pub. The owner took us through the back to the venue which looked really cool....a kinda small place like an outhouse crossed with the 13th note in Glasgow! It looked like tonights show was gunna be a belter....until!......"sorry lads...the PA broke last night and were waiting for the guy to come and fix it...the shows off"

Fucking nightmare! stuck in london with no money, no show and no accomodation! After trying drastically to get somewhere to stay through the promoter and the other bands that had turned up we phoned around everyone we knew in london but to no avail.

We decided that instead of trying to fit everyone in the van again it would be a better idea to grab a carry out and drive up to leicester to see if we would be able to bung our stuff in the club overnight to have enough room to fit everyone in.

We phoned the owner and the club loads but no answer so it came to the last resort.....sleeping on the street (dont beleive me?? check the pics!) Rye, Damo, Stu and sean all volunteered to kip on the pavement outside leicester college for the night (heros!) and face the danger of being eaten alive by the rabid fox's that were just walking about the streets!
i nearly killed one of the little bastards with a tin of beer which after dodging it continued to lap up! cheeky little fuck! the other 4 of us crammed into the van for what was to be quite apleasant sleep.

DAY5
Being awoken by students heading into the college, we decided it was probably best if we moved on. We packed all the shit up and headed off to fins a supermarket for some tucker.
A while later we came across a massive Tesco superstore with a huge carpark! We parked the van right at the very back of the carpark and headed in to buy some stuff.
After about 3 hours of sitting about on the grass etc, we were confronted by 2 Tescos idiots with radios and silly shirts. "looks like you guys are having a prty here...are you planning to stick around all day?" no we said and explained our situation....they seemed ok with it and pissed off back into their big shop.
about 4 hours later the local beat bobby turns up "ello ello, whats going on 'ere then lads? i just had a complaint saying your having aprty and refusing to move?" "get tay fuck!" the bobby was quite sound and saw we were causing no harm so said it was up to us if we left or not but Tesco had the right to have our vehicle clamped if we didnt go.
We decided to go down to the venue and sit about outside there till it opened.

The guy finally came down about half 7......only 12 hours we'd been sitting about geeing it laldy then? no bad!
it was a quality wee venue....probably smaller than the beat bar in dundee but with bags more atmosphere and a huge PA!
We played with a young band called the squaters and both gave it hee haw with our final sets of the tour.
When MUFF ended we all got onstage do give a blast of the new poo boys (MUFF/SATS colaboration). We played our one and only song called "i hope your gran chokes on the blood from her own c**t and bumble bees sting her in the face"
the lineup was:

steve muff - drums
stu muff - guitar
rye sats - guitar
cal sats - vocals
beanzy muff - vocals
damo sats - vocals
sean muff and gary sats on beatdowns a plenty!!

it was probably the most hardcore 3 minute outburst ever heard by human ears but it rounded off the evening nicely! (look out for our new ep entitled 'i pour acid on the faces of the newlyborn and put hot soup in the croth of their forefathers')

Once again we never had anywhere to stay so we decided it would be best to chip in all our money for petrol up the road and buy a massive carry out and just head back to Hamilton through the night.

DAY6
We hit Hamilton about 6.30 am and well done to steve and beanzy for not falling asleep at the wheel and ploughing us into a central reservation to our inevitable death!

the rest of the journey was just us driving back home and its all a bit boring really.....

So basically...the tour was awesome and i've probably had the funniest week of my entire life! there was never a dull moment and although we were all stinking like decomposing roadkill and had blown all of our money on drink, drugs and cheap pork products we had a total blast!

I'd like to thank everyone who helped us out, with a place to crash, something to eat, a show or anything else! everyone who came to the gigs...especialy the crazy kids in Andover!
and the biggest of all thankyou's goes out to our brothers in arms, legs, torsos, and heads - MISTAKE US FOR FRIENDS! for all of there help, the use of their van/backline/rubber sex aids! and for being the coolest tour buddies you could wish for!

PS... watch this space for news on the brothers in arms split cd featuring 3 tracks from Mistake us for friends/ strike at the source....its gunna be out on lifeline records with release hopefully early august!

mistaken sean · 1st July 2004, 08:54 PM

profound big lad

That brought a tear to my eye!Hopefully it wont be long before we can do it again!

bridget frenzy · 4th July 2004, 04:21 PM

aye lets go next week too.

1st July 2004, 04:24 PM	#1 (permalink)
bridget frenzy Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: www.strikeatthesource.com Posts: 2,817	Cal's "brothers in arms" tour diary! ok folks....heres a breif insight into some of the shinanigans we got up to with mistake us for friends on tour last week....i have probably missed out most of the funny shit so if anyone else remembers anything cool fire away!! DAY 1 Ready to set off i called Rye who was supposed to be getting picked up within the next 10 minutes only to find the wee nipper hadn't even woken up yet....after an hour of scratching has balls and putting cress seeds in his ass we finally left to pick up the rest of the gang at a rather ungodly 730am. After a swift pit stop to collect Gary and Damo we finally hit Hamilton about 1030 to be greeted by half of MUFF and beanzy's gran who i have to say is a lovely wee woman. We packed the rest of our stuff into the van with the mountains of equipment and set off to collect steve MUFF and fill up the van with fuel. A few hours on the road and a few service station stops to fill up on meat based snacks and yakults found us hitting Wakefeild late afternoon only to find a multitude of england flags, shirts, & scuba diving sets emblazoned all over the shop! Trust 2 scottish punk rock bands to be booked to play a venue that was also hosting live footage of the England V Portugal game that afternoon! After unloading the van, doing a soundcheck and waiting around for a few hours hoping to god that the mob of england fanatics next door didnt come through and put pool cues through our faces we finally got on later than scheduled due to the penalty shoot out etc....get it up ye! the main problem for us that night was that i went out to the van for a quick joint before we went on and ended up completely out of my tits on seans new blend of super weed! but despite this we had a good show as did MUFF and venue owner extraordinare Mr Malky ("we was robbed"....top bloke!) was well sound and made videos of both our sets. We never had anywhere to stay that night either so he was nice enough to let us leave all the equipment in the venue over night so we could all fit in the van. After a lovely lock in and a few carry out beers (see tour pics!) we all settled down in the van to sleep.......only to be awoken at about 8am by delivery drivers needing access to the venue! BASTARDS! DAY 2 Halfway through a lengthy drive to Coventry, we stopped at a service station hosting alovely burger king (fucking Â£4 for a burger! what a lot of pish!) to which beanzy exclaimed he was off fast food all tour! but fair play the lad kept his word and wasn't caught snacking on fast food at all for the rest of't week! After finding the venue...the jailhouse (which was a fucking classy joint!) we mucked about with an american football for a few hours and washed ourselves down with baby wipes before being fed a lovely baked potato and chilli by the venue! soundchecks ahoy before kicking into a set in front of about 10 people!! As shit as it sounds it was actually a really good show and the sound was immense! i cracked into the Stella's during MUFF's set and ended up doing beatdowns onstage during set the world! We ended up back in a guy called Krissy's flat....sound bloke but i was a bit disturbed by the amount of models of dead, deformed babies he had kicking about his flat! nothing mattered though after a good few hours on the sauce and weed and the floor was comfortable as fuck! we made some helmets from beer crates and listened to some "cyber metal" before hee hawing it off to bed. PS MUFF...your wee box smells like rat pee! DAY 3 i awoke with a Doll stuck to my face and we got on our way, one of the guys mates who stayed there last night asked for a lift into town so we obliged. Whilst the geezer was getting into the van Stu MUFF slammed the door on his hand by mistake, completely trapping his finger in it! fucking sore as hell!! he had a massive blue indent in his hand and he was screaming like a cat with a firework up its jimson! Anyway we set off for a monster drive to a small town in the deep south called Andover where we were to play with 2 Day rule. We got there to find the street was closed for some hippy festival so we had to park miles away (22nd right on the left of roundabout 48) and lug the gear to the hall. it was only really a town hall with a small PA so we were a bit apprehensive about the sound etc but after the soundchecks realised it was all going to be cool as hell....especially since there were hundreds of kids queing outside! The show was really good and the kids kicked off a monster pit and even flung in the strange new idea of doing the macarena in a big line at a punk show which was eh....cool! Muff and two day rule rocked the place out and the local band 'paul went home' were on rocking form too.The show was rounded up with us getting some pics taken with a young lass who was strangely obssesed with getting her huge norks out for tit lads! (see pics!) After finding out we had no accoimodation again the very nice guys in 2DR found us a palce to crash!! only problem is it was at one of there houses in bristol....which is right on the west coast. We decided it was better driving 2 hours for a decent sleep than attempting to fit 8 people in a 4 people space! thanks again to craig from 2DR for letting us crash at his house....complete with about 80 beds and a lovely warm shower to wash the 3 day old vaseline from my crotch.

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1st July 2004, 04:24 PM	#2 (permalink)
bridget frenzy Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: www.strikeatthesource.com Posts: 2,817	Day4 After a bit of a lie in we finally left Bristol on route for london which was only a couple of hours away, we were making great time so we stopped off at a service station for a few hours to chill out and waste some time. We got the american footer out again then decided it would be fun to set of the vans fire extinguisher! A few joints and the heaviestrain forrest'esque rain shower iv'e ever seen later and we decided we should hit the road again. We hit houndslow, london late afternoon to find the rifleman which from the front just looked like a pub. The owner took us through the back to the venue which looked really cool....a kinda small place like an outhouse crossed with the 13th note in Glasgow! It looked like tonights show was gunna be a belter....until!......"sorry lads...the PA broke last night and were waiting for the guy to come and fix it...the shows off" Fucking nightmare! stuck in london with no money, no show and no accomodation! After trying drastically to get somewhere to stay through the promoter and the other bands that had turned up we phoned around everyone we knew in london but to no avail. We decided that instead of trying to fit everyone in the van again it would be a better idea to grab a carry out and drive up to leicester to see if we would be able to bung our stuff in the club overnight to have enough room to fit everyone in. We phoned the owner and the club loads but no answer so it came to the last resort.....sleeping on the street (dont beleive me?? check the pics!) Rye, Damo, Stu and sean all volunteered to kip on the pavement outside leicester college for the night (heros!) and face the danger of being eaten alive by the rabid fox's that were just walking about the streets! i nearly killed one of the little bastards with a tin of beer which after dodging it continued to lap up! cheeky little fuck! the other 4 of us crammed into the van for what was to be quite apleasant sleep. DAY5 Being awoken by students heading into the college, we decided it was probably best if we moved on. We packed all the shit up and headed off to fins a supermarket for some tucker. A while later we came across a massive Tesco superstore with a huge carpark! We parked the van right at the very back of the carpark and headed in to buy some stuff. After about 3 hours of sitting about on the grass etc, we were confronted by 2 Tescos idiots with radios and silly shirts. "looks like you guys are having a prty here...are you planning to stick around all day?" no we said and explained our situation....they seemed ok with it and pissed off back into their big shop. about 4 hours later the local beat bobby turns up "ello ello, whats going on 'ere then lads? i just had a complaint saying your having aprty and refusing to move?" "get tay fuck!" the bobby was quite sound and saw we were causing no harm so said it was up to us if we left or not but Tesco had the right to have our vehicle clamped if we didnt go. We decided to go down to the venue and sit about outside there till it opened. The guy finally came down about half 7......only 12 hours we'd been sitting about geeing it laldy then? no bad! it was a quality wee venue....probably smaller than the beat bar in dundee but with bags more atmosphere and a huge PA! We played with a young band called the squaters and both gave it hee haw with our final sets of the tour. When MUFF ended we all got onstage do give a blast of the new poo boys (MUFF/SATS colaboration). We played our one and only song called "i hope your gran chokes on the blood from her own c**t and bumble bees sting her in the face" the lineup was: steve muff - drums stu muff - guitar rye sats - guitar cal sats - vocals beanzy muff - vocals damo sats - vocals sean muff and gary sats on beatdowns a plenty!! it was probably the most hardcore 3 minute outburst ever heard by human ears but it rounded off the evening nicely! (look out for our new ep entitled 'i pour acid on the faces of the newlyborn and put hot soup in the croth of their forefathers') Once again we never had anywhere to stay so we decided it would be best to chip in all our money for petrol up the road and buy a massive carry out and just head back to Hamilton through the night. DAY6 We hit Hamilton about 6.30 am and well done to steve and beanzy for not falling asleep at the wheel and ploughing us into a central reservation to our inevitable death! the rest of the journey was just us driving back home and its all a bit boring really..... So basically...the tour was awesome and i've probably had the funniest week of my entire life! there was never a dull moment and although we were all stinking like decomposing roadkill and had blown all of our money on drink, drugs and cheap pork products we had a total blast! I'd like to thank everyone who helped us out, with a place to crash, something to eat, a show or anything else! everyone who came to the gigs...especialy the crazy kids in Andover! and the biggest of all thankyou's goes out to our brothers in arms, legs, torsos, and heads - MISTAKE US FOR FRIENDS! for all of there help, the use of their van/backline/rubber sex aids! and for being the coolest tour buddies you could wish for! PS... watch this space for news on the brothers in arms split cd featuring 3 tracks from Mistake us for friends/ strike at the source....its gunna be out on lifeline records with release hopefully early august!

1st July 2004, 08:54 PM	#3 (permalink)
mistaken sean Registered User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: www.mistakeusforfriends.com Posts: 44	profound big lad That brought a tear to my eye!Hopefully it wont be long before we can do it again!

4th July 2004, 04:21 PM	#4 (permalink)
bridget frenzy Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: www.strikeatthesource.com Posts: 2,817	aye lets go next week too.