monday4th, through bleary eyed exhaustion…
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Sebastien Frinight:Up late getting shit ready/SAT02April2011: bedtime 2am+
got up 3:55am taxi to Paddington. Took about 10min from A-Tn, same length of time to write/send email via smartphone to AudioVideo film-maker in Germany. Ah, clear roads in London – only for the nocturnal.
“paddington Heathrow express at an ungodly hour wondering where the fuck is drummer pete!”4:57 AM Apr 2nd via Mobile Web
Onboard heathrow express. Sinister news channel…
“telescreen news on heathrow express train is Orwellian. Western propaganda and petty alarmist sensationalism “
Pete’s fiance sped him to airport (he’dgot up late) in car.
TERMINAL5. Impressive ultra modern.
Duty free: Dre’s career was built on glamourising criminality, we got his earphones.
Glorious sunrise.
BA Flight…
BA has gone down the drain, it was a like a giant Easyjet but with unfriendly curt staff. British class system in full glory. ‘Not in economy class’.
No booz til 1hr before landing?!! Both fell asleep during gash film on 1970s TV scrn – Narnia Prince Caspian – sod those nauseating upper class little shits.
Looked like the plane interior hadn’t been updated since 1981
similar to the IBM scrn on our album cover! ha.
Cold waves of air – they ran out of blankets…the heating had broken down!
None pork breakfast was OK but a bit cold…
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TURKEY arrival. Got our visas
Istanbul airport met our guide Hemi – a most genial fellow.
Taxi to hotel through rain. Looked like we’d brought some classic English weather with us.
At hotel Maybe have seemed liked divas; demanded new rooms. Went round a few. Fine in end. Bastien got his own room. Pete and Max shared.
Had a wander round local Galatasary area. RAIN. COLD.
Hemi, Pete, Max
Huge multi-storeyed modern Turkish coffee house/restaurant.
One of entourage ran to get Bastien plasters. All trod back through relentless rain. Despite saturated footwear and coats , good to be out in Istanbul. Always great to explore a new country.
nap.
Thorough Soundcheck lasted rather a long time. Had a few problems with gear. We need to upgrade. Got Efes beer on.
Through bustling night, main street (‘istanbul’s oxford st’), with entourage to Turkish restaurant – ‘LifeLung Friend’ (AKA My Lovely Lung). …Consumed lung shish kebabs. Rather delicious.
+ Raki. Interview with a cool Istanbul blog – really into the album; ‘masterpiece’. Time Out had Detachments as main attraction for the night.
DOGZSTAR multi-floored Venue, looked busy.
1:30am THE GIG: 1or2 probs with sound after 1st song.
(mid-set)very impactive HolRom with crowd erally bouncing around and mouthing the lyrics! After that, the energy of bastien/band+Audience dipped. Heard we seem ‘a lot darker live than on album’, more Rock than expected.
Got stuck into bar after gig.
great people in Turkish entourage.
The gregarious promoter had spent time in Sarf London (he had a bit of a wideboy LDN geezer edge),
he plied us with non-stop shots til 7am.
Detachments entourage – messy stagger back through winding streets.
SLAUGHTERED.
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Day After Night Before
So we didn’t manage to go over the bridge to the Asian half of the city as we planned yesterday.
Hungover to the extreme.
taxi back to airport in pain.
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BA flight back much better. Cold airwaves again though, but didn’t affect our alchohol soaked systems
Better seats and bit better film . Collected wine and shots.
Refreshing beer.
Tolerant, pleasant staff. Much better.
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LONDON Heathrow T5.
03April2011. Sunday Evening.
that was Detachments’ 101st gig ever.
100th was at Queen of Hoxton, LDN.
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