今週末も忙しかったな。
|
|||||||
| Comments | 4 | Hits: 187 |
あ、もう忘れてた。週末の記憶がない。うーん。9日(金)はどうも千葉に行ってた気がする。そしてくそ弱い者どもをばったばったと倒していった記憶あり。卓球で。物足りん。もっと強者を望む。ってほど強くないけど。
|
|||||||
| Comments | 2 | Hits: 220 |
昨日はばったばったとNHKの国際放送のライブ収録に行って来ました。
|
|||||||
| Comments | 0 | Hits: 305 |
ヨーロッパツアーから帰って来てはや2週間、ようやく帰国後初のライブでございます。いやー、ほんとサッカーだけしか観なかったなー。
|
|||||||
| Comments | 1 | Hits: 200 |
いや、素晴らしい試合でした。本当に勝たせてやりたかったなあ。しかし決勝トーナメントはやはり厳しかった。特に今回はどの組み合わせ観ても正直強いチームが勝つってのがよくわかる。その中で南米の雄、パラグアイ相手にここまでやれたのは素晴らしい事。出来れば4年後、また夢を見させて下さい。お疲れさまでした!
|
|||||||
| Comments | 3 | Hits: 260 |
ホント、サッカー漬けの毎日ですが、日本代表おめでとうございます。あ、もう一昨日か。いや、でもデンマーク戦は今後も語り継がれる試合だと思うからいいや。 まじで僕も含めてこの下馬評の低さを覆す彼らと岡田監督の精神力の強さに頭が下がります。そしてサッカーって本当に先の読めないスポーツだなあと思いますよ。そしてコンディションのキープの難しさ。僕は残念ながら初戦のカメルーン戦が帰国便の飛行機の中だった為、ちゃんと観れなかったので何とも言えませんが、オランダ戦と今回のデンマーク戦の選手のコンディションの良さが目立ちます。前回のワールドカップの時、直前のドイツ戦でやたら良かったのに本番になるとダメだった時にピーキングの問題とかも話に出ました。実際、各国の強豪たちは予選の段階でピークをわざと持って来ないようにしてるかと思うぐらい低調な国が多い。といってイタリアは敗退してしまいましたが。 後はこの好調さをどこまで維持出来るか。実際中3日しか休みがないことを考えるとそんなに長くはないかもしれません。次のパラグアイは本当に強いぞ、いやそういえばパラグアイの試合観てないや、強そうだぞ。ぼかあ、さすがに選手や岡田監督のように無茶な事は言いません。しかし次勝って、是非歴史を塗り替えてください。がんばれ日本! i am watching World Cup Football everyday. want to say congratulations to Japanese national team. their performance of last 2 games (i was on a plane when they matched with Cameloon.) were fantastic !! hope to win Paraguay and record new history !!
|
|||||||
| Comments | 4 | Hits: 262 |
No time for sight seeing today as it is 8 or so hours to Vitoria & the van is beginning to make worrying squealing noises…more on this later although Maekawa san has kinda spoilt the ending with his blog yesterday! The last show of the tour is in another great little rock n roll venue on an industrial estate outside the city. This seems to be a common thing in Spain, doubt it would work in England, people here don’t like to travel to get to shows. The place is called Hell Dorado (see what they did there??) & we have a great night, over 200 people show up making the venue pretty full & again Peelander put on a great show. As you probably know the Eel Shock crowd these days consists largely of ‘gentlemen of a certain age’ such as myself. It is great fun each night watching these guys getting involved in the silly games that Peelander force on their crowd. Actually I suspect that an older crowd is more willing than kids to do this kinda stuff…we’re well past worrying about looking cool at our time of life! We have a little PA trouble (it seems I’m too loud again…oops) & the right side of the PA cuts out a few times. My mixing position is up on the balcony so after turning down it takes me a while of running up & down stairs before I get it sounding right…sorry about that. Worse still during this time I don’t notice that Aki is signalling that he can’t hear himself…the fault should not have affected his monitor but it seems that it did. We are into Iron Man before everything is running smoothly…piss. Despite this the response is great & we are so happy to have finished the tour in Vitoria…well, the bands are, I have to confess to being a bit tired & grumpy…I can’t remember the last night I got a good night’s sleep. After the show I drop Gian & Aki at the hotel (Aki has a lot of driving to do tomorrow…more than we thought as it turns out) & Kazuto & I drop Peelander at Bilbao airport which is about an hour drive away. It has been an absolute pleasure to work with them for the last 3 weeks…I was a bit concerned before the tour because they have known Eel Shock for years & obviously are Japanese too so I thought I might be kinda excluded but they were a great bunch of guys & always made sure I was involved. I hope we will work together again soon…hopefully they will be back in Europe early next year. The drive back to Vitoria is pretty scary as I am struggling to keep the van between the lines on account of seeing two or three lines for every one that actually exists because I am so tired. Fortunately there is very little other traffic about. It seems that I didn’t take any pics today…maybe Kazuto can add a few. After a few hours kip we get up at 11ish & head for Paris where EES have flights the next day. The plan is to do most of the drive today & then stop for a decent meal & a few drinks somewhere short of Paris & then finish the journey on Monday…never make plans!! Just over the Spanish border the fan belt comes loose & we have to pull onto a parking area by the side of the motorway.
We have a running gag on the tour based around Aki’s belief that Déjà vu means actually having done or seen something before rather than the feeling that you have. For instance if we miss a turn at a roundabout & have to go round twice THAT apparently is déjà vu. Having said that the pic above does kinda remind me of something. Fortunately this time we have AA cover (well, sort of, the less said about that the better!) so we get towed off to a local garage where initially we are told we will be stuck until at least Monday. Aki & Kazuto start attempting a repair which prompts the local mechanic to help out & between them they bodge a repair that may get us home although there is damage to the fan belt so we are not sure it will hold.
We have also developed a water leak which means that for the following 500km to Paris (& the 500 beyond that to London) we stop every 50 mins or so to top up & cool down. We crawl in to Orly airport’s hotel area at 4 in the morning & then Aki & I have to stay up doing homework until 6am. When I go out to get a bag from the van I see a long trail of oil running across the car park to our van. It seems our bodge job was not as successful as we thought & a bolt on the alternator has pierced the oil filter…lucky we got this far I suppose! Next day we find a Kwik Fit style garage near to Charles De Gaule but do not have time to visit before I need to drop off the guys for their flights. They seem very guilty about leaving me to pick up the pieces again but I am just glad that we have got them there & that we have not picked up any extra expenses like last time. Besides, if shit didn’t happen no one would need tour managers would they! The garage should be about 10 minutes away but the road signs in France are extremely confusing & I get badly lost & very worried as the oil light has been on for some time & I imagine the engine will seize up at any moment. Finally I find the garage but they can’t fix the leak but kindly top me up with oil for free & point me in the right direction. Thanks Speedy!! At the Ford garage they fix the oil problem for the price of the filter (thanks again!) but can’t do the fan belt or the water so I hobble up to Calais on a wing & a prayer (translate that Kazuto!).
I get on the ferry at 11.15pm & treat myself to a meal at Eel Shock’s expense. Check out the tea…not sadly the pyramid bag but it is PG…JOY!! My stash ran out a couple of days ago so this & more PG at the Costa shop makes my day.
I pick up Bob at his house & we unload the stuff into mine at about 4am before he drives down to Autodan to fix the van. So, another tour over & all in all a bit more successful than the last one…at least financially! It’s always great to be involved with Eel Shock…can’t wait for the next time. Arigato!
|
|||||||
| Comments | 3 | Hits: 358 |
そうです、前回のツアーに続いてまたも機材車にトラブル発生!実はスペインをツアーしてた先週より、どうもエンジンからファンベルトが滑ってる異音が発生。見たところファンベルトも滑ってる様子はなかったのですが、スペインの日程はかなりドライブが長く、金曜日に間に合わなくて週末を迎えてしまったのです。とりあえず土曜日のライブが終わって、ピーランダーを空港に送っていったまでは大丈夫だったのですが、日曜日にパリに向かって国境を越えフランスに入ったあたりで突然ハンドルが重くなり近くのパーキングに緊急停車。結局前回のツアーに引き続きレッカーされることに。。。 ああ、時間なくなっちゃった続きは日本帰ってからね。
|
|||||||
| Comments | 1 | Hits: 348 |
Sorry, I’m a bit behind with this…we are all home in our respective parts of the world now & I have been in bed most of the day…you’ll find out why tomorrow I expect. Anyways, Valencia… It’s a relatively short drive from Barcelona to Valencia but Aki has the bright idea that (especially as it is the first time in Europe for the Peelanders) we should take the opportunity to actually see a bit of ‘real’ Spain so we leave relatively early & after the Sagrada trip we head off down the coast.
We break for lunch at a little resort called Miami Platja. We take a walk on the beach & then have an excellent lunch at a café up the road. Good work Aki, it was really nice to take a couple of hours out from the venue/ van/ hotel routine. I love touring but sometimes it is really frustrating when you drive through amazing countryside or visit famous cities & see nothing but the venue.
After lunch we head down to Durango…will you look at the size of the place!!
Scary. This could have been very embarrassing. At the time that we were originally told that Peelander were due to go on there are 5 people in the place that must have a capacity of 800 or so. Fortunately our info is wrong & we actually have another hour during which a respectable crowd show up. Before that we are taken out for another excellent meal. They go to ridiculous lengths to accommodate my veggie tendancies, so much so that I need help from the carnivores to finish me food. Peelander again go down a storm with Red climbing all over the building & knocking bits off it in the process.
Another excellent show from EES & I have a great night too, the staff at Durango are excellent , again, as at most of the Spanish venues they are super professional but also really into their rock. The house sound guy even spends most of the show ferrying drinks to me from the bar…that’s what I call service. Peelander fly out after tomorrow’s show so tonight is the end of tour party. In my room this consists of me, Kazuto & Green sitting at our pooters for an hour & then crashing out…we are so rock n roll. Maekawa san is so addicted to technology that he insists on being on line on two different devices at the same time.
Long drive to Vitoria so we are up early & Green rescues our R n R reputation again by smashing an ash tray. Not quite your Rolls Royce in the swimming pool but we work to tighter budgets.
|
|||||||
| Comments | 1 | Hits: 276 |
*6月16日追記 アップしたと思ったら動画に載せたクレジット等が間違っていたようで、現在編集中のため非公開になってます。 一両日中には再アップしますので少々お待ちください! ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypas25Hkp-s
で、メンバーが機上の人の間にニッシー企画の宣伝! Electric Eel Shockをヘッドライナーに迎え、 ロックギグとアニソンイベントを融合させたまったく新しいイベント!
http://www1.odn.ne.jp/shinjuku-dom/index.html/dom.html ★バースペースで開催のアニソンダンパでは http://www.electriceelshock.com/ja/component/jforms/1/103.html
|
|||||||
| Comments | 2 | Hits: 373 |
Page 1 of 17
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >>









































