The Venga Bus is coming...

I thought while I was at it, I should put some photos up of the bus...

The tour bus. Completely jokes!

Bottom lounge. Nothing in the fridge. Bummer.

Upstairs hallway - bunks.

Top lounge.

My bed. Unsoiled.

Watching the Parkway Drive DVD trailer. It looks jokes!

Tour laminate & my Sonic Youth earplugs container.

Gallows tour of Wagamamas UK

There hasn't been much catering on this tour, so we pretty much just eat Wagamamas everyday. Either that or Pizza Express or Nandos.

Sheffield Wagamamas was possibly the worst dining experience any of us have ever had. Stu won a free Kirin Ichi Ban Beer tshirt, though even that wasn't enough to make up for their complete shit service and rubbish food. Pizza Express in Nottingham last night was definitely not an Express. It stopped at every station on the line from London to Nottingham. It took 40 minutes for our starters to arrive... Poor effort Pizza Express Nottingham.

Still waiting. Unimpressed.

It hasn't been all bad though! Wagamamas in Nottingham served us up a feast. Good shit.

An old favourite! Ebi Katsu. Note the wedge of lime and delicious chilli sauce accompaniment.

Can't remember the name of this one that Stu got, but it is DE-LICIOUS.

Stu laying into a ridiculously tasty piece of cheesecake.

Other than that, we have been partying quite a bit. Stu and Lags are carrying the party torches. We went out in Glasgow the other night to a club called The Cat House. It had about seven rooms and one was filled with metal dudes shredding air guitar, non-stop. We then went out to a club in Newcastle called Crash. It is basically Snitch/Thriller but filled with (if it is even possible) more sluts... There were in fact girls paid to dance on platforms. The DJ played Gallows and Everytime I Die while we were all in there and the boys enjoyed seeing what were essentially strippers dancing to their songs. Good times.

We're in Nottingham at the moment. I have a stomach ache from a shitty fry up at the Premier Inn hotel this morning. I should feel great after sleeping in a hotel bed for two nights instead of the bus, but instead I have been sitting on the toilet for most of the morning. Bad scene, Premier Inn's fault.

Everytime I Die have been killing it every night. They play Floater which makes me happy. Andy is a complete dude and so is Josh. So far Rolo Tomassi, Throats, Blackhole and Hexes have opened the shows. All brilliant.

Nottingham Rock City - about to load in.

RESET YOUR DONGLE!

Newcastle ABC. There was a concession stand this night so I watched the guys play and then dived during the last song. Destroyer.

I got a tie dye tshirt from my friends Liena and Neil. They play in a band called The Lock And Keys. Listen to them.

Listen to these bands:

http://www.myspace.com/hexes
http://www.myspace.com/rolotomassi
http://www.myspace.com/throatsofgold
http://www.myspace.com/blackhole
http://www.myspace.com/thelockandkeys

Things that we have been doing on the bus:

Listening to Big Business.
Playing Golden Axe and Streets Of Rage.
Watching Sean Connery movies.
Youtubing the following. Incredible.

Leeds Sucks

This is Bagel. He is selling merch for Everytime I Die. We're really not enjoying our night in Leeds. The kids are douchebags and the hole they've got us selling merch in also sucks.

God speed us to Nottingham!

Gallows UK tour so far...

London - day before tour practice

Spending money

Instore at Rough Trade Record Store

Lags getting a short back and sides

Steph cracking Andy from Everytime I Die's back

Tom - Ghost Of A Thousand

London 04.05.09

Fuck the border

Officially Euroswine. For the next year at least...

Killing me softly

I just ate what might have been the best sandwich I've ever encountered. Most people know I love a sandwich. I can't cook for shit, but I can cook a delicious sandwich better than anyone you know.

On Hunter and Nina's recommendation, I went to a little cafe in Crouch End called Hot Pepper Jelly...just around the corner from Gareth and Nina's flat.

Triple decker American Hot Jelly Sandwich... HOLY SHIT. So good.

Peanut butter, bacon, hot pepper jelly, toasted bread...

New favourite restaurant in London.

Do you like Spaghetti-o's?

I have an ingrown hair on my chin at the moment and was trying to get the little prick out with a pair of tweezers. I couldn't get it, but I had a bit of a weird snot situation going on from the flight yesterday from Amsterdam to London... So I blew my nose with my hands and a bit of the end of a booger came out. I decided to grab onto it with the tweezers instead of my fingers. I pulled it, and it just kept coming. I was about two inches long by the time it exited my nostril completely. Like a piece of spaghetti; it wasn't liquidy, it was solid. I think I pulled part of my brain out, or part of my nose that was holding up my eye socket. For the rest of the night it felt like my face was about to cave in.

Gallows tour starts tomorrow. I'm really tired right now, but I can't wait for it to kick off. Yahtzee.

TWO WEEKS!!!

I just bought this.


How long are you planning to stay? Two weeks.
Are you bringing in any fruits or vegetables? TWO WEEKS!
TWO WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKSSSSS...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

National Lampoons European Vacation

So my sister and her husband just came to Amsterdam for the weekend. Her name is Kim & his name is Nick - yes she married a dude named Nick... at least she found a dude named Nick who isn't a douchebag like me.

They went to the Tulip fields on Saturday morning, but I was hungover and didn't want to deal with a thousand tourists so I met up with them in the afternoon and we went for a walk around town. I showed them some cool shit, had some nice Belgian beers at De Zotte and then took them to The Taco Shop for dinner. Had a huge Mexi feast. Delicious. After dinner we were going to go out to a bar or a show, but there wasn't anything too exciting happening in Amsterdam. We ended up buying some beers and wine and hung out in their hotel room watching German MTV. Brett Michaels from Poison is a complete shit bag. Also, G To Gent is one of the worst shows I've ever seen. Also one of the best.

Today Kim and Nick decided to wake up at stupid o'clock to go and get breakfast... It was raining all morning, so that was pretty dank. Had a pancake feast for breakfast, then went for a walk around, got fries with mayonaise and curry ketchup, kept walking, met up with Gijs, Santina and Andrew from Comeback Kid who had a few hours to kill in Amsterdam before he flew to Thailand to sit on a beach for three weeks. We had some bagels then went for a walk... By this time Kim and Nick were pretty wrecked. All we'd been doing was eating and walking. They jumped a train to the airport and I came home and had some pasta with Gijs and Santina.

Have a bit of shit to do over the next few days before I fly to London. Can't wait for tour.

Dudes partying on a bike/bar... You pedal while you drink a shit tonne of beer.

These are two of the babes Santina works with at the Coffee Company. I am going to miss getting free iced coffee everyday.