Berlin is something else. At the moment we are almost on the border of East and West Germany. Tomorrow morning we are going to take some photo's at Checkpoint Charlie for a small black and white poster campaign we are doing for our other Berlin gig on Sunday. I spent hours in the record shops here today. There is so much music and each record store (and i really mean "record store" - the music shops are 20% CD's and the rest is vinyl) has it's own personality. It's a very special place this. It's where Bowie lost his mind.

So much has happened in the last few days including our kicking Amsterdam gig, then our not-so-kicking Den Haag pub gig where Andrew's suitcase fell out the back of the trailer and was lost on the freeway. Following this was our all-night drive to Berlin where we arrived this morning (Monday), slept till 2pm and then wandered the streets before playing a gig at a dark and dingy dungeon of a goth club called Thule Club right next door to a sex shop. The gig was not very well advertised, and therefore not very well attended except for a handful of journalists. Luckily we were totally on form so now we have got a little bit of momentum for our 2nd Berlin gig on Sunday.

I can't even remember most of what has happened there has been so much going on in the last few days so i thought i would try a bit of a photography tour for a change... All photos taken on our sponsored Sony Ericsson phones. Thanks guys!



This is a rare photo. We spent our day off in Amsterdam roaming the streets. What a truly incredible city! We really loved it there and can't wait to go back in September. So as Jane and i walked out of a rock photography store, a bird shat right on her head. I didn't catch the moment but this is about 40 seconds later...



This means your dog can shit in Holland.



This is our manager, Leon, doing the "Cassette" hand sign that he made up. He keeps encouraging us to do it as much as possible as he is convinced it is going to catch on. We are looking at our contracts quite carefully at the moment...



Now poor old Andrew. If it's not one thing going wrong it's another. If something bad isn't happening to him, you can guarantee his band mates will be kicking the shit out of him just for fun. It's hard for him. When we arrived at Den Haag for a gig, we discovered that his bag had actually fallen out the trailer. This photo is the trailer once we had discovered the bag was missing...i have circled the empty spot...



This is Andrew at Den Haag police station reporting his loss. This took about an hour due to a communication problem called English.



Now amazingly - now be careful you don't have heart failure if you are from Africa when you hear this - this afternoon we got an email from one of the police stations in Holland to say that his bag had been handed in ... in tact with everything in it. He was so happy he ran outside to phone his wife, Maria. This is that happy moment.



Now this needs some explaining!! After eating at an incredible restaurant actually called Man Kok I had to be the flippin' comedian and go outside to take some hilariously immature photos like this one.



However, Angela happened to catch this photo of me taking the previous photo! Not good if found on the internet without this explanation!



Here in Berlin we are staying at the offices at the back of an indie music shop called Volpo. This is Jane. And you have to go through the purple doors on the left to find us. It's a really great part of the city with loads of shops and graffiti and Germans.



The goth club that Leon booked us into for tonight. He really didn't want to be photographed in front of it.



Everywhere we go we have these really cool backstage areas which is something you never find in South Africa. It is so nice to have one. Here is the one in Amsterdam. We will be putting up some video stuff about this on youtube this week.



My head on the streets of Zierekzee.



Finally, Jane makes a recording studio in the back of the van using her Korg, my laptop, Garageband, a pair of headphones and 6 penlight batteries. All of this in a space the size of a small space.

Going to bed now, really exhausted. Love ya! Driving off to Weimar tomorrow which is about 2 hours away.