Welcome again after a long break. Yesterday I came back home after three weeks tour. 4 thousands km around Czech Republic and Slovakia and roughly 1 thousand in Poland. Tese are numbers and belowe where I’ve been with Lucien Dubuis Trio:
10.05 – CESKA TREBOVA 11.05 – BROUMOV 12.05 – VOLYNE 13.05 – KLATOVY 14.05 – NOVY BOR 15.05 – POLICKA 16.05 – CESKY KRUMLOV 17.05 – CESKE BUDEJOVICE 18.05 – LIBEREC 19.05 – OTROKOVICE 20.05 – BRNO 21.05 – NOVE MESTO NAD VAHOM (SK) 22.05 – CESKY TESIN 23.05 – KYJOV 24.05 – BRNO 25.05 – 27.05 – PRAGUE
We played 18 concerts day by day. It was quite tiring… but we handle it. We had gigs in many differents places, starting with a club like this bunker in Ceska Trebova…
through interesting scenes like the one in Policka and
mega-superb-hiper pimped club in Slovakia – Midas, Klark Teknik, recording system Cubase in racks, Tc M2000, D2, PA Funktion One, many lasers, camcorders Sony HD and multimedia system and many many more… and 56 kinds of hot chocolate.
Small but really cosy places in Klatovy and eske Budejovice
Lovely club in Cesky Tesin and club in Brno with great atmosphere
Ending with Jazz Dock in Prague.
On our way we encountered strange spots… like this one which is called ZAKUPY(in polish it means shopping)
And food (its bizarre mixture of cream, mushrooms, whipped cream and crouton.
And citizens
If you woudn’t know Lucien Dubuis trio consists of:
Slim Fat – contrabass clarnet, saxophone
Cool Roman – guitar, bass, noizz
Fat Cool – drums, percussion, noizz
Janne from Finland – nanokorg noizz, guitar, sound
Janne became an unexpected guest on this tour. But after 5th concert he performed his tune on bis and afterwards he was invited on the stage every time.
His great solos on the keybord and guitar makes people thrill.
Czech republic is a weird country. Very specific. They’ve got the cheapest beer which is also very tasty. Sometimes you can buy it for 18 korons (3 PLN / 1 $). Prague is a very charming city. Thanks to the three gigs in Jazz Dock and my guide I was able to do some proper sighseeing.
In big cities like Prague or Brno citizens speak English. Unfortunately in smaller towns it’s not so easy. In the very beginning I thought that polish and Czech language have a lot in common, but it’s not true. Some single words may have the same meaning, but still it’s not enough to communicate with people. Guys from Lucien can speak also French and German and sometimes it was really helpful. The best thing happened in restaurants like McDonalds or other where we were imitating different animals in order to get a meal with chicken meat or pork. It was very interesting indeed.
When it comes to eating, they’ve got great steaks, McFlurry with caramel and nuts (really addictive btw.)wide range of salami in the supermarket and peppers – very good. I still don’t like ‘kofola’ though and I cannot take anymore chicken breasts.
Thank you guys for this time and I invite you to Poland and to Janne’s concerts.
Just after this tour I popped in to Saraswati Studio to give equipment back and I met Digit All Love, who where just recording material for the newest album.
I cannot wait to see the results.
After that I got some rest in the countryside in Darek’s place. Barbeque, whiskey, internet and rainy days. On Saturday I was working with Afromental in Posen.
It was the best organized student party ever. Sound from Fotis, Vdosc at the front, MJF212 as monitors, boards DiGiCo d5 and Midas Pro6 and great bands:
SOFA
FLAPJACK
INDIOS BRAVOS
RAEKWONWU TANG CLAN
SHAPESHIFTERS
TOM NOVY
MARCO V
NITROUS OXIDE
AFROMENTAL
ACID DRINKERS
WAGLEWSKI, FISZ, EMADE
STRACHY NA LACHY
Although we had some problems with boiling water for coffe:
But apart from that – master! (as Wiesiek used to say)
Right now two days of chill out, next concerts with Afro in Konin and Glucholazy. Later on Miloopa in Lithuania and Luxembourg. Sounds great.
