Can I use the toilet?  - Belgium        01/10/2013

Now I got the best or at least the longest sleep - I wake up three o'clock, we have to get out of the bus at the front of the venue 'cause there's no space for our bus. So as quickly as I can I take my stuff and go in to the club BIEBOP we're supposed to have our show tonight. It appears we have no exit from the backstage outside except the stage so we have to get out from there after our show between the changeovers.

 The backstage is small, well not small for one or two bands but four. And there are jost one shower and a 'toilet'. A toilet where you can't do anything but pee or else the coincidence is not going to be very nice. No sink in the toilet, no use for that anyways…actually washing hands is the least that would be nice after using the toilet seat. So here we all are like fish stuffed in a can in peace and trying not to step on anyone's toes. We have dinner just starting when we get our soundcheck started. Nice and quiet supper…..NOT! But we've use to it already. 

Oh, I'm so sad this tour is going to end….but in the other hand I'm so happy to go home and see my family, friends and the most my cat I've been missing so much. I decided I'm going to talk with the bus driver the last night we are driving to the airport because we use to have so good conversations on the first block of this tour and now haven't got the time and the bus has been different - I can't get to the front from the lounge as in the last bus we were traveling with. 

It's a small venue, maybe 500 people fit in the most but it doesn't bother me. Actually in smaller venues there is always so intimate atmosphere with the crowd so this night is hopefully going to be like that. Even though my voice worse than yesterday, dry and tired, I'm going to sing the best I can and hope the crowd likes our show. 

Good evening Belgium! Are you having a good time?? YEAH!!! Are ready for some BATTLEBEASTHEAVYMETAL???? YYYEEEAAAHHH!!! IT*S GREAT TO BE HERE WITH YOU GUYS AND ESPECIALLY IT'S GREAT TO BE….OUT ON THE STREEEEEETS!!!! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! The crowd is wonderful and even though it's hot as in hell I see the fists going up, the heads banging and screaming mouths. 

Now starts the tricky part - Showering while Majesty playing, getting out from the backstage after their show and getting my transmitter of the microphone back to its case where it belongs. Lovely Goat makes it happen, I mean the transmitter-part. Outside we meet some fans and go have some pizza/kebab from the restaurant next to the venue. We have to wait until 1am for our bus so the next I do I'll go to the merchandise-desk to meet people and hear the rest of Powerwolf-show.

 Hanging by my computer and when I go to the toilets something funny happens - every toilet is taken except one, but there's no toilet paper. So I wait and there comes up a guy going to the toilet and I tell him the situation and he's like 'would you like me to go get you some toilet paper? Me:'For sure!' and he goes downstairs and brings some staff guy with toilet paper. Then after the toilet incident I go downstairs and this same guy who helped me to get the toilet paper comes up to me asking if we could have a picture together. Haha! Of course I say. 

Not for long the saint triangle BB/M/W are in the bus and our journey to the last venue begins. Oh no, we I hear we left someone behind - we have already been driving like half an hour and we have to go back because we forgot to take our merchandise guy with us. He must have gone to the toilet or something while we were asking around is everyone in. So our lovely Haxi is now in the rain all alone pissed off. 

Happy ending! We get him in the bus from the venue and the journey starts again. This time I just go tell the bus driver I'm going to travel with him in the front the last night. I watch the iron maiden-dvd for few minutes more and now in my bunk writing this blog….my eyes are getting heavy….ok, I might have written enough of this day….tomorrow is the final…………be prepared.

-N