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Date Posted: 14:05:44 10/18/03 Sat
Author: ian
Subject: more from david-ivar herman dune

from the herman dune website:
Staying in the little house in the backyard after the show is pretty cool, we didn’t even have to load the van right afterward, I think I’d like to play the same venue again next time we play in Oxford… The next day is Leeds, home of the Braves of England, where we last played and had a great time at the Go Johnny Go Go Go Go festival a few months ago. It’s in a venue we played earlier this year, the Burdnell Social Club, a beautiful venue that is usually used as a Bingo Club, with a great stage, and where the space is really warm and like an aphitheatre, and the Pint of Fosters is one pound eighty. I don’t know who the promoter is though, I’m a bit scared that it’s not Johnny or the Cops and Robbers, but when we get there, first it’s the same sound guy as usual, a great man named Mose, and then the promoter is a really nice girl, like seventeen years old or something, and she plays in a band called the Seven Inches, which I liked when they played with us another time in Leeds, I’m gonna start thinking that they grow great people who care about music in Leeds, or something. We don’t really need a soundcheck as Mose totally knows what he’s doing so we hang out in the neighborhood a bit, it’s cool. We go to a charity shop and something really strange happens: Calvin found some 10 pence records but the guy said he wouldn’t sell them to him because he guessed Calvin knew what they were, and those records must have been collectors… What the fuck?

In a charity shop? I never heard of something like that… I bet the guy kept the plates Calvin had picked and went to sell them for ten pounds each somewhere, bastard, he should have payed CJ for finding the gems for him… The Seven Inches play an acoustic set which was fun (they have pictures in front of them but I have no idea what they are pictures of). Then comes a band that sound exactly like the Strokes to me, I mean not less good or more bad, depending on what you think of the Strokes, but really genuinely this way, I mean for me. I enjoy their set, it’s cool, they are good musicians too… A lot of people I met before in Leeds come up to me, some buy me drinks, Colin who’s a Satan’s Fingers fan brought me earplugs, a whole bag because he read that my ears hurt in this diary, so nice, it feels like home a bit. Too bad Kery is on tour, we wanted him to play Xylophone with us tonight… It’s Johnny’s birthday, there’s a cool vibe in the venue, and it’s is kinda packed too. Our show is cool, we play some requests we’ve been asked to, I like when people ask stuff at shows, though I wish I could talk more between songs, maybe I’m too shy, or maybe I’m afraid I’d only find stupid things to say, but I never talk enough I think, I like it though when it happens, it’s when you really feel the connection with the audience, or something… Calvin plays a great set, he sings my favorite song of his “Love travels Faster” from the last Halo Benders album, and he talks about my idole Johnatan Richman, I think because we were listening to I, Johnatan in the car…
We don’t have a lot of time to hang out after the show, cause we’re gonna drive back to Paris during the night and it’s already pretty late, so we quickly pack up and leave. I love driving at night, it’s a bit dangerous, but there’s an incredible odd feel to it, that makes every song on the stereo sound ten times better… Néman and I take turns and we finally make it on time to give the van back. And by the time I get home, it’s already time to go to this Pirate Ship venue in Paris, because Saloon is playing tonight, they are our friends, I want to hear them though I’m totally exhausted, and there are rumors that it could be their last show, as Mike would have said he’d leave the band after this tour. It’s cool to see them again, we met a few years ago for a show we played together in Reading, and we had a lot of fun and loved their music, especially their use of the famous Rogue by Moog, their post velvetian two chords guitar songs, with a violin and everything, really cool drums,a bit like Steve Shelley shit played by Charlie Watts or something. I really hope they don’t really split. It’s weird, Paris is not my home anymore, I feel like a visitor, I don’t know what’s going on where, the people I know know people I don’t know, who ask me what my name is, sometimes in English for some reason. I can’t really follow my friends’ conversations, too many names and stuff I’d have to ask what they are, I feel a bit ridiculous and akward.




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