Day 31 - Norwich (UK)
Norwich was the last show on this incredibly long tour. We had some time to hang out at the citycenter and I must say that this is a crazy place. There were many discos and clubs which opened very early and thus the people started partying very early, too. The atmosphere was very aggressive. We recognized a twosome fighting each other with words and action and there were about 4 cops in every street.
The venue was the smallest of the whole tour and so was the stage. I prefered the floor then. We had 2 songs left when Phil screamed: “Fuck! I have to take a shit before my pants are full of it. Let’s finish the set NOW!” We played the 2 songs and along the way Chris farted very badly so Eric thought Phil had shit his pants. Eric couldn’t stop laughing and Chris tried to cover Eric while we finished our set. Holy shit! By the way: Every drink was served out of a tube with thousands of different drink buttons. Crazy! After the last show we said goodbye to THIS IS HELL and DEAD SWANS. Then we had a 15 hour drive home coming up.
(Raphael)
I had the most embarassing tiny 5″ pizza in Norwich. 5 inches… I swore not to tell anyone (so did Raphael who was with me) but it’s been aching inside of me so badly since then, I HAD to come out with it. Show was kinda weird, everyone was completely worn out and tried to give it a rest. This Is Hell were amazing that night, they played their whole set and added Beastie Boys’ “Fight For Your Right” plus an extremely tight version of Earth Crisis’ “Firestorm” with Travis on drums. The perfect musical ending for the tour. We shot a crew photo and then it was time to say goodbye to everyone. We had all grown pretty tight on this tour and in some cases it was kinda sad to realize that one wouldn’t see the other person for months, maybe years.
(Chris)
