Hey Folks, this time I post to thank all of you for your support and love during our European Tour. So many great shows this tour!!! The lovely Vera in Groeningen, Killer show In Koln, the car museum/fire in Brussels before a great show. And then there was England, what can I say! best Indian food:Manchester, worst: Tescos from a microwave ;-(. Great to see so many of you so often, its always cool when you can come to a few shows, some are more relaxed than others, and also to see so many old friends crawling out of the woodwork was a blast. Special cheers to the few stalwarts (Leo) that made it out to the Liverpool show, I thought it was the best of the tour, and to the smallest crowd too! LOndon was of course ridiculous, so busy, so fun, and big up Big Hand! I must also give shout outs to Cannibal Corpse who played with/next to us in Nancy; 2 venues 1 working toilet AAAAGGHH!!!! To you fans at PassPop did you know both Jay and I were bleeding on our instruments that day? How's that for devotion! And of course there was Ernesto's, better than ever! The new ventillation system is awesome! The food was great, the tequilla top shelf, and was I wrong or did we play fo nearly three hours. Finally to the Danish crew that ate dinner with/ near us at Ernesto's, did you really think we would play the sets you wrote for us the second night? That seems to me a fans dream, you write out all the songs you want to hear in the order you want to hear them and the band goes "yeah OK we'll do these." Has any one ever heard of this happening before? As for the band, we had an educational experience at Kenilworth castle, which was; 16 pounds is too much to pay for a castle tour! Thanks again everyone!
And Now the Contest
Any and all Slacker fans are invited to participate in a contest to find some new designs for new Slackers T-shirts, hoodies, underwear,pint glasses, etc. We are open to any ideas and suggestions, we have been considering things like; a pirate ship with Jamaican flags for sails, or themes on the slogan " SLEAZY...,BUT SENSITIVE" Or what ever you got!! Please submit any ideas, artwork, or what you got to :
slacker_bass@yahoo.com
We are looking for things to be printed so please don't make them detailed or too fine lines, and please dont use more than 5 colors
PLease submit your ideas before July 1 2006 (rough drafts are OK)
Winners get their designs on a T, a chance to wash the band's van, and maybe even paid for this and/or future designs !
Cheers Marcus
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Slackers pics in Nancy
Hi all,
Nice shots of the band in Nancy (april 2006) to be seen here :
http://www.azimut854.com/photos/slackers/WDGAL0001.html
Enjoy!
Marie
He bought it at a show.
He bought it at a show.
The Danish crew
Well Marcus... The whole setlist thing seemed like it worked. We got 19 of our 23 three wishes fulfilled (Where the hell was "Close my eyes", "Who knows", "Face in my crowd" and "Keep him away"??), plus I quite enjoyed seing your faces when I asked for "a small request" and then took out a 2 sets setlist. Besides, it seems like we have made our own small place in Slackers history as "remember that time those crazy danes pulled out a setlist at Ernestos"?
Beside the setlist "The Danish crew" had the best time loosing our “ernestos cherries” - great venue, great food, lots to drink (but what´s with those tiny beer glasses????) and four and a half sets (plus soundcheck) with the best band in the world.
We will surely be coming back next time.
ps. Don´t flatter yourself. With the breaks you only played about 2½ hour each day (this excluding the warmup show monday).
pps. Half the band promised to swing by Denmark next time you are in Europe - we will keep you to that promise!
ppps. Se our videodocumentary of the tour at http://www.understudies.dk/video/Slackers%20@%20Ernesto's.mov - and while your at it check out our band www.understudies.dk
pppps. If it really had been all the songs we wanted to hear, we would just have put each Slackers record in front of you and told you to start at "work song"...
nice shirt, man
hey mr. bigsby, where did the big man in the video get that nice red slackers t-shirt? is that a new design? thanks
mihran