Tour Bus Confessional: Germany

So we just left the UK… We’re on a ferry headed to France, from where we would drive to Amsterdam! The ferry itself was HUGE. And I really mean it. Somehow, it looked like a small airport with its duty-free shops and small bars and cafés in which everything was overpriced! The ferry left the UK in the middle of the night. We got woken up by the bus driver, got out of the bus with nothing on us. Everything had to remain on the bus! The girls were all wearing PJs. The guys didn’t change at all. That being said, I doubt they even wear pyjamas! lol!

Guess whose feet? Gathered in the lounge, in grand style

So we walked around the ferry for a bit, went to see outside only to find ourselves in the middle of a rainstorm. It was now confirmed, the fact that we felt shaky since we got on that boat was because of the storm outside, not because we had just woken up. We finally decided to sit in one of the lounges that was there. Couches and a small TV were fine for us. We were tired and knew we would all fall asleep anyway! And sleep we did… Just as everyone else that was on the ferry. Until, almost at the very end of the ride, we discovered the jukebox! A few pounds a song – it was actually freaking expensive for us, for a single song when you thought about the currency exchange rate – but we wanted to try it. It was kind of old, kind of cheap-looking, and very kitsch. We NEEDED to try this! I do not remember the first song that played, but I sure do know that the guys rapidly took off their shirts and started dancing on the ferry, chest-naked, to the amusement of everybody that was now awake because of us…! Continue Reading

Tour Bus Confessional
September 24 – 27 : UK
Crisis ahead…

It was the big day! The day of our departure! FINALLY!!!! Here’s how the scene was in Montreal: people sleeping on benches in the waiting room. We are excited! I mean, how could we not be? But we’re all exhausted… Without a doubt sleeping was the thing to do!!! We were quite a few people leaving (are you really surprised? lol!) Here’s the list:

– Alex (Singing, doing interviews, getting sick… and sick… and sick again!)
– Jeff (guitarist, more-manager-than-a-real-manager-can-be, perfect filming subject!)
– Miss Isabel (only singing, back then no keyboards yet! Oh yeah, and cooking!)
– Ben (the one with the best immune system out of all of us!)
– Sef (acting as a King, as usual…)
– Moose (I think he wasn’t called Moose yet… Or at least, did not want to be!)
– Matt “Big Byrd” (he had the weirdest haircut I had ever seen – at that time!)
– YB (filming everything he could… and falling asleep filming)
– Kanu (he had a lot of meetings planned, you know…)
– Marjo (planning all the interviews we had with different magazines and human rights organisms)
– Miriam (taking pictures!)
– Stephanie (yeah, that was me… I was correcting blogs/translating)
– Izabel Desjardins (VJ at Musique+, french canadian version of MuchMusic!)
– Mr. Manager (being himself… Only he could do that…) Continue Reading

A Story Of Modern Slavery…?

I have had the chance to tour with Your Favorite Enemies more than once… Actually, I think I have only missed one show in their entire career! You got to understand that before working with them, I am first and foremost a fan… Lol!

Tours are always a wonderful journey… with a very intense-fully-over-booked schedule! Every minute is counted, from morning (somewhere around 5am), up to night (somewhere around 2am)… Which leaves us with a huge 3-hour long night! Not so bad, when you think that many nights are sleepless! Lol! We cherish every hour of sleep that we can get! Continue Reading