DEAD VOWS

BREMEN 2009-06-28

2009-06-28T14:23:00.001-07:00

G18 and Bremen seems to always be a good time. Tonight was no exception.
Delicious food upon arrival, friendly people, a decent turnout and a fun show.
After last night's show at Pressurefest it was more than enjoyable to be back where we belong.
Not that we didn't enjoy Pressurefest, tonight just did us more justice.

Even though most probably hadn't heard us before kids seemed to dig us, sweet!

The last band of tonights show Insomnio from Spain were awesome.
Today it was Mattias birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATTIAS!

1 MAY Gdynia, Poland

2009-05-04T02:35:00.002-07:00

30 APRIL Wroclaw, Poland

2009-05-04T02:35:00.001-07:00

29 APRIL Lodz, Poland

2009-05-04T02:34:00.000-07:00

28 APRIL Grodno, Belarus

2009-05-04T02:33:00.001-07:00

27 APRIL Minsk, Belarus

2009-05-04T02:32:00.000-07:00

26 APRIL Baranovichi, Belarus

2009-05-04T02:31:00.000-07:00

25 APRIL Warzaw, Poland

2009-05-04T01:55:00.000-07:00

24 APRIL Poznan, Poland

2009-04-30T00:29:00.000-07:00

Puh, long drive yesterday.
We arrived in Poznan around 2 o clock in the night and passed out at the venue’s guestroom right away.
After a good night’s sleep today’s promotor invited us to the breakfasttable. Bread, marmalade, tahina and tea. Not too bad!
The weather was amazing too so we went for a long walk downtown Poznan.

Linus and G came along with some of the locals for a Critical mass-demo. 200 punks on bikes that resulted in a fight in the middle of a roundabout. Why do I always miss out on the fun stuff?

Playing was tons of fun! I enjoyed the lovely dinner instead of checking the 2 opening bands out. Yummy! We did a good set and kids went bananas, sweet!

Some food in Malmö before going to the ferry in Ystad.

VALGA 2008-08-23

2008-08-24T12:01:00.000-07:00

I must have slept for an eternity when I got up at 12 o clock or something. We gathered our belongings and went to Valga which is where we're playing tonight. Went to a mall to buy some food for tonight since the promotor doesn't provide us with anything to eat. All of us have been promoting shows on and off over the years and food for the bands, especially travelling bands is a priority so we're honestly a little bit unsatisfied about that, but alright, whatever.
At the mall a bloke approached us and introduced himself as the promotor of tonight's show. He took us to the club and here we are. Hanging out in the van. It's raining like hell, of course. At the moment I can't recall a single day of this tour without rain. Everyone except for me is sleeping.

01:30
Going to bed any minute.
Some locals are hanging out at the club still. Getting fucked and blasting nu-metal from a stereo somewhere next door from the backstage-room, which is where we're sleeping tonight.

A drunk-as-fuck asshole said one of us should sleep with a girl in his company. Hugo said no thanks and the dude called us gay. Interesting.

It didn't seem like our set tonight would be something to write home about until a song or two into it, when kids gave up the smoking-area for the concert-room. We gave all we had of blood and sweat and deserved the front-row-bangers I think. Good times after all. Good night.

KILINGI-NÖMMÖ 2008-08-22

2008-08-24T12:00:00.000-07:00

Left the Oranssi-office, where we stayed for the night, waaaaaayyy too early to catch the ferry to Tallinn, Estonia. Despite the early hours everybody was in a good mood. Got on the ferry and got some more sleep on the floor, in a hallway. Some brats right by us annoyed me a bit and for a moment I wanted to hurt them severly but I calmed down and found some peace. No killing today.

Got off the ferry and was suprised that the border control was gone.
We drove through Estonia to Kilingi-Nömmö, whish is pretty close to the Latvian border. Asked some punks in town where the festivalsite was and made it there safe and sound. It's a big field by a lake with a number of small sheds around and two stages.
We hung out a bit with the nice lads of CONTEMPT whose bassplayer just passed away after some time of sickness. Good to see them carrying on despite this tragical event.

I passed out in the van and woke up more or less right in time for soundcheck. We played our rock, hung out with some locals, sold some merch, had some food and the other dudes enjoyed the festival while I went back to sleep for the night.

HELSINKI 2008-08-21

2008-08-24T11:59:00.000-07:00

A friend recommended that we should go to the Lenin-museum in Tampere and so we did. Everyone was psyched about it. If you get the chance check it out! "I am the walrus".

We arrived at tonight's club right on time and shook hands with Juho, the promotor. Decent man with a beard. Did the usual, tourduties, had food, took a crap and did some hotmail-ing. I'd been looking forward to this show for a long time since I knew I'd meet Kimmo, Hannu and Antti. Sweet to see some familiar faces. Jani who just moved back to Finland showed up and provided some good times. Good seeing him of course. His band, DEATHBED is planning to play Sweden early next year, definitely looking forward to see them.

First band, EYE FOR ALL sounded like OUTSPOKEN and ILLS were massive. Our set went good and even though kids were a bit passive most seemed to enjoy our noise.

TAMPERE 2008-08-20

2008-08-24T11:58:00.000-07:00

Left Jere's place pretty early with a promise to come back. Gave him a record for his kindness and hospitality and went for Tampere with the rain pouring down like hell. Stopped some by the road to buy sodas and sweets, but still arrived in Tampere in time.

Since the rain had ceased to piss down some of us decided to go for a walk. The area around the club is amazing. Lots beautiful houses and small streets. We reached a lake and as the sun was setting and most of us felt this was a once in a lifetime-thing we leaped into the cold water. Took some silly photos on the beach, showed some ass to people walking by and slowly walked back to the club. Good times, damn good times.

Soundchecked, had food, local band played, we played. Got flapjacks for my beertickets and went to the place where we'd stay for the night.

Linus excused himself for not taking his shoes off at first but our host for the night said he didn't care and showed us the carpet where some(!) of his friends had thrown up, cool. We appeared to be in good company. All of us passed out early.

OULO 2008-08-19

2008-08-24T11:57:00.000-07:00

At Jere's, the promotor of today's show, place.
We needed a place to stay last night and this young man selflessly offered us his roof over our heads and a lovely olive sallad on our late arrival, fantastic!

When we got our lazy punkasses out of bed this morning he made us porridge, how about that?
Johannes went back to bed and the rest of us checked Oulo city out. Bought some records, cough medicine and laughed at guitars at the local musicstore.
Went back to Jere's place, checked myspace and had a sauna-session, lovely. Jere got home ,made us dinner and took us to the club where tonight's spectacle was going to happen. 2 opening bands played before we did our thing. Lots of fun and kids seemed to like what they heard and saw.

KEMI 2008-08-18

2008-08-24T11:56:00.000-07:00

SIIIIIIICK!

LULEÅ 2008-08-17

2008-08-19T05:53:00.000-07:00

Best day in a long long while. Delicious breakfast and amazing weather.
We decided to hang outside as much as possible. Checked a big mall out. Bought some necessities, found some decent clothes in a dumpster and made fools out of ourselves as usual.
Linus took the rest of us for some awesome sightseeing. The harbour, some piers, gigantic ships, the old Iron-factory and much more. Everyone was psyched!
He and Hugo climbed the huge fucking crane in the harbour. I of course stayed on the ground, in safety, horrified by the hights they mastered fearlessly.

We rented some movies, a new one with Owen Wilson (that was awesome by the way), bought snacks and went home to Linus' parents to chill out for the rest of the night and so we did, massively.

LULEÅ 2008-08-16

2008-08-19T05:51:00.000-07:00

Playing Luleå is always a bit special to me since some of my sweet bandmates grew up here.
We left Jenka and Ric ta life's place after a good night of sleep, went to the club, loaded the van, had an awesome falafel, vegan icecream and did some crew-shots with "ze germans" and some local punx. THE TANGLED LINES wanted to go swimming so we took off for Luleå on our own.

We loaded in and did a quick soundcheck.
I found myself all alone in a backstageroom and couldn't seem to find my boys so I went for a walk as the sun was slowly setting. Amazing. Luelå truly is a beautiful place to be sometimes.
Got back to the club to find out that all the food was gone. Bummer, but I for some reason didn't care.

We played, did good, some other bands played, I didn't care to much so I took a shower.
THE TANGLED LINES played and were of course awesome. They're the type of band I'd love to go on tour with, hang out with and see on stage for many nights in a row. They're always energetic, excited and awesome. Totally what hardcore/punk is about to me.

We did a videointerview before we packed our shit, hugged the germans and Robert goodbye and went to Linus' parents' house.
His mother had prepared a delicious tofu-pie with quinoa-sallad for us, fantastic.
We all ate with great appetite and went to bed. Happy, happy.

UMEÅ 2008-08-15

2008-08-19T05:44:00.000-07:00

Got up, watched all-time rap-classics on MTV, had breakfast, wrote a thank-you-note to our fasntastic host and took off for Umeå. We were supoosed to meet up with THE TANGLED LINES at a gas-station right outside of town, but after half an hour and still no germans in sight we decieded to get going.

The food was amazing! Kind of old school, vegetarian-hippie-stuff, just the way I like it. Top notch to say the least.
First two bands played, I did some reading before we line-checked and gave the kids a treat. They went off, had a good time and so did we.
THE TANGLED LINES were, as we'd learned by now, awesome as always and got some serious dancing and shouting along going in the room. Best thing was definitely when Luise involved a plastic crocodile hanging from the ceiling in the singing. Alot of fun!

J, G and Hugo went clubing, while me and Linus, AKA the bores went to Jenka and Ric's place.
Did some massive myspacing, played deathcab for cutie-songs on accoustic guitar and had muffins and tea before we passed out.

Paul, Ric ta life & Linus

THE TANGLED LINES. Luise sure knows how to have fun.

"not just boys fuuuuun"

VÄSTERÅS 2008-08-14

2008-08-19T05:06:00.001-07:00

After a good night of sleep at our place we and the Germans set off to run some arrends. We picked up some new merch while they went for some vegan icecream. Apparently a major obsession they have.

A few hours late we arrived at Sigurdsgatan 25 in Västerås which is where tonights show was to be held. A benefit-show for Djurrättsaliansen, an animal rights-organization we support deeply.

Food was awesome and we were all very happy to see our friend Niklas again who made us sound like a million bucks tonight.

HENRY BOWERS headlined the show and took us all by storm. he was backed up by DJ Lo-Kut. Henrys new full length will be out later this autumn. So keep your eyes and ears open. Impressive set to say the least. Nice, young lad too.

GÖTEBORG 2008-08-13

2008-08-19T05:00:00.000-07:00

The tour started.

We arrived fairly late to Underjorden, hooked up with Robert Refuse and met the beautiful TANGLED LINES for the first time, nice people.

Ok turn out I'd say and a good night all in all.
Delicious food and always a pleasure playing SPATT.

The Dead Vows photos were taken by Ramon.

VÄSTERÅS 2008-08-14

2008-08-19T04:58:00.000-07:00

Tonight we played the second show on our European tour. We played at sigurdsgatan 25 in Västerås. The Tangled Lines from Germany played as well and Henry Bowers from Uppsala.
I'm tired as hell right now so more info about the two shows we've played so far will be up tomorrow or the day after that.