Day 28 - London (UK)
Just like Leipzig. London was one of the highlight shows everyone was looking forward to the whole tour. Dead Swans sold out the Underworld earlier this year and so did This Is Hell last year, so everyone was expecting quite an amount of mosh that night. Don’t know how many kids were there in the end but the place was pretty much packed. The Goldust / Attitude tour package we had already teamed up with for the Essen show opened the night and it was good to see that the guys in Goldust seemed to be even more fucked up after a 3 weeks tour than us after 4! 
Goldust pretty much rocked a lot, Attitude didn’t really leave an impression. We were up next and there was a certain excitement present within most members of The Blackout Argument. We played a great set, felt pretty intense on stage, I guess we cranked the max out of our worn out bodies and instruments. Nanouk commented our set with the words “It’s quite obvious you guys have to work really hard to prove yourself in the UK, which you did well tonight.”, which is exactly how I viewed our stage debut(s) in England / Scottland / Wales.
There’s show and there’s… food! Just kidding, this next paragraph is not about food but about shopping hahaha! Everyone in the band has wonderful but demanding girlfriends so we all did our best to satisfy them with presents from the shopping capital of the world. Fortunatelly the Underworld venue is situated in the middle of Camden, a part of London that is famous for its shopping opportunities. We bought shoes, shirts, bags, jewelry, candy and media to ease our girlfriends fury for leaving them alone for a whole month of touring. I guess everyone will be happy, at least I hope so (another 5 hours to go until we’re back home and hand over our presents).
One last paragraph about our sleeping places for that night. Just like in the USA most UK promoters don’t feel responsible for bands’ accommodation, so we had to sort out things by ourselves every night. As for London we didn’t really have any options and planned to check in a travel logde or hostel until Raphael’s aunt’s friend Mariko offered us to stay at her place in Notting Hill (Yes, Notting Hill, just like the movie…). Apart from unexpected sleeping places we also had the luck to get to know one of the most positive, funny and flamboyant personalities in whole London! Mariko is one hell of a lady and we heartly embrace her as new member of the hardcore community!
Quite a long one, time to come to an end. I think eveyone felt London to be the last show on the tour althought there were still 3 more to go. We gave everything and regained even more.
(Chris)
