Our time off in Los Angeles

So due to various things, swine flu and skipping texas to join the rest of the Tarja tour we ended up in LA for a few weeks before heading down to Mexico to play with Anathema. The first few days we spend hanging out with Cedrick, Maria and Tomi from the Tarja crew as they also had a few days off in LA, so first night we ht the sunset strip from some rock n roll at the rainbow and the whiskey, we also saw a jimmy hendrix tribute band that had his brother come up for one song, strange! not bad for a monday night in LA, the second day we hit the beach wth Maria for a while and head out for a boys night on the sunset strip with tomi cedrick, dave, marty and myself… this night was pure rock n roll, the rainbow the viper room and various other places that i may not mention but im sure some of them are in the ‘girls girls girls’ video by motley crue haha tomi, tarja’s lighting guy got especially boozed and the highlight for me was when he was hanging out of the sunroof of our car yealling down the sun set strip hahahha but eventually all good things must come to an end, so we bid our fairwells to our new friends and wished them the best for the rest of the tour and began to unwind from our previous 30 dates.

We are staying with our good friends Rhett and Lili who have been looking after us so well! Great food and great company we also got the chance to spend some time with rhetts band Gravehill who are also great guys!

So almost two weeks off what did we do! Well it began with sickness for my self, first a flu that became a respitory infection and had me bed ridden for the better part of a week and also gave me my first experience with the medical system in america, which basically if you have money is ok, if you dont your stuffed! but 150 us dollars later I was medicated and on my way to getting better!

We saw a few shows also, we got to catch Opeth here is LA which was a blast, Marty and Dave saw gojira a french death metal band and we also saw gravehill whch was a brutal show at this really weird venue on the outskirts of LA, it was lik techno and thrash metal all at the same time, but gravehill crushed, we got totally drunk and a good time was had by all!:)

So with all this slacking off and eatting we thought we better do some reheasing and songwritting so we booked ourselfs in for three days of jaming in LA at the same place Slayer wrote most of Reign in Blood, unfortunately for you metal heads this had no effect on the material we wrote hahaha so we rehearsed some songs we had not been doing and we also managed to get some great ideas down which i think will shape nicely into some songs when we get home!

So with all this slacking off out of the way its time to play our last tw shows before we head home, next stop Mexico City!