We've committed treason im afraid, we have currently been undergoing a tour over in Europe and right now we have about one week left of the tour then we are flying home on the 20th of july. Right now we are doing pretty good but this tour started off with some rough patches, needless to say we are still having fun over here.
We drove down to NYC to leave for D.C. Turned out our connecting flight to D.C. was delayed. They told us that it would leave in plenty of time for us to catch our plane in D.C. to Brussels (Belgium). Well they were wrong on that one. We landed in D.C. about an hour after the plane landed.
So after waiting in the customer service line for over 2 hours we went to go talk to some higher up people for another 3hrs. They had told us that the next flight to Brussels was not until 6pm the next day, it was about that time when we landed. They could not hook us up with a place to stay so we were forced to sleep in the terminal for over a day until our flight the next day.
Luckily we got on that flight okay and landed fine. We were picked up by some of the dudes in the Setup in Brussels, loaded up the van with our gear and we went on our way to the U.K. (so we thought). We were all out of it, no one got good sleep really. We found out that our working papers never came in, which we need to play in the U.K. without having to pay the government. So we showed up at the border, instead of walking the bridge like most people do we went into the building. None of us had a game plan so we all told them complete different stories. They knew we were a band and we were detained for about 6 hrs. They had told us that we were denied and we had to go back to Belgium.
We heard that Have Heart was playing somewheres near by so we all hoped in the van and drove 3 hrs to go see them. We showed up and they had about 2 songs left. The show was outside, really weird vibe. Turns out there were bloc parties all over the place so after the show we walked around for a while. Couple of the dudes with us pretended to vomit all over pretty young ladies it was awesome (it was orange fanta i beleive).
We met up with our driver Franke and road Dawg Neils at the show, both dudes are awesome and we've been with those guys for the whole tour so far. We've played some really cool shows with New Morality and the Mongoloids along with a show with Cold World, No Turning Back, Dirty Money and others. That show was chaos, No Turning Back killed it for sure that night, such an awsome band and they are all great dudes. We also played a boat in Paris with the Mongoloids and New Morality that was pretty fun as well.
We have about a week left of tour, hopefully its smooth sailing from here on out. When we get back home we will be hitting up the road for over a week or so in August with our good friends in Downpresser from California, awesome band if you havnt already you need to check them out. Check the dates below and come out to the shows:
- August 6th The Tower - Cleveland, OH
- August 7th Inside Out Gallery - Traverse City, MI
- August 8th The Eagles Nest - Milwaukee, WI
- August 9th The Ghost House - Lincoln, NE
- August 10th Mission Theater - Kansas City, MO
- August 11th Smith Seven House - Memphis, TN
- August 12th TBA - St.Louis, MO
- August 13th The Murphy Building - Indianapolis, IN
We will be chilling at This is Hardcore fest for all three days, then we will be heading back home. We wont be playing much more shows outside NY until The Great American Hardcore fest. We have a couple of tours after that we will be announcing soon, just laying down the dates and what not, shits going to be cool.
Check back for more updates, hopefully we make it out of europe alive, if not its been fun playing in the states and we will continue as a european hardcore band but i dont see that happening. YO PATAT!
also we made a twitter account so if your on that as well be sure to follow us at - http://twitter.com/Forfeit
-forfeit crew
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