Getting ready for it.
Right, it's real, it's really happening, we're going to be in America this time next week and yesterday it really hit me. Dry mouth, sweaty palms and a stomach that won't settle. Can't eat, having trouble sleeping and generally bricking it. I know it's going to be great, but I feel there's this extra pressure to really DO IT for you lot after that cock-up with the authorities. These nerves are nothing new for me, it gets me every time before we do a tour, but this is serious nerves - I can't stop my hands trembling at the moment, I know it'll pass and I can't wait. I can't wait to be on stage belting those songs to you instead of them running through my head endlessly and driving me up the wall, I can't wait to meet loads of you in person and share some time, I can't wait, my American and Canadian brothers and sisters to give you the best present I can possibly give. Get ready. It's a pressure cooker ready to blow and when it does....see you all next week.
April 15th, 2011 - 13:53
“Dry mouth, sweaty palms and a stomach that won’t settle. Can’t eat, having trouble sleeping and generally bricking it.”
I guess it at least proves that you care about what you’re doing – quite something these days!
April 16th, 2011 - 15:18
sounds sort of like what i am feeling waiting in anticipation of seeing you play in austin:) have a great trip and enjoy your time!
April 16th, 2011 - 18:25
We will Give You a big cheers in montreal you will never forget and stage frighetened will be gone very quickly
April 18th, 2011 - 16:02
I know the Austin show is going to be the shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 21st, 2011 - 19:39
Will be seeing you in Montreal tonight, Steve. Incredibly happy to do so. Bienvenue et fais comme si c’était chez vous! And if you’re looking for some nice fresh beer before or after the show, let me tel you that “Les Foufounes Électriques” were one of the few places where it was possible to hear about you in the 80s.
April 24th, 2011 - 19:19
Steve, I was a typical suburban Amerikan middle class misfit. Anarchy was the juvenile concept of vandalism and getting pissed drunk at age 9….listening to the shite bands I could buy at the mall(exploited, misfits, venom, sex pistols, dolls, etc..)…a friends brother came home from University when I was 11 and put on ‘Feeding of the 5000′ then ‘Stations of the crass’…i might not have quite gotten thru all the accents(altho im welsh just live here…go figure) but of the thousands of bands i’ve played shows with, listened to, booked shows for, put out records for, etc..hearing those 2 albums(and the amazing packaging and reading the lyrics) that moment was is and always will be the paradigm shift in my life. Within weeks I was lugging Bakunin and Proudhoun books to 6th grade(i was spot on for reading early on), and within a year I was not a ractionary or a nihilistic idiot, i was an ACTIVIST and altho the pigs have come close to offing me a few times and have jailed me several(inciting a riot against the building of a nuke plant and assault with a deadly weapon,a 40 pound rock i cracked on a copper after he clubbed my obviously pregnant companera
are my “heavy” crimes)…but too much other positive, acts(books for prisioners, food not bombs, etc.) to list would have never happened, and my life would not be the wonderful, satisfying experience it has been in my 33 years had I not heard this band CRASS at that pivotal age in my life…I wont gush on and on and I’m not trying to kiss yer arse, but just being honest that an ANARCHIST band….a band that said things much more deeply and thought provoking than “anok in the uk” or “fuck society” resulted in my lifelong dedication to a movement, a struggle to change things instead of dye my hair….and as you can ask my wife(who like it or not knows every lyric to every crass song ever) whenever I want to give up on a better future, on doing what i know is right…i put on any of yer albums(despite the terrible sound christ the bootleg is a fave) and it erases any doubt that no matter what i’m against or what the odds, or the consequences….that “I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees” -Zapata
thanks mate and ill see you in atlanta…first few rounds of pints are on me..
Jon Entropy
K.A.T. Collective/Organic Farm
state of Georgia, u$a
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