Home from Tour....WOW....

We are home again, poised to do a couple local shows before the end of the year and before our 2005 year plan begins...yes we never stop...but as for touring we are finished for a while...2004 was an incredible year as far as touring goes...thank you everyone...

So yes we are home from our final tour of the year, Which took place in Europe and had us experience so many things, many good, some bad, and we came home still loving what we do, inspired as well, yet tired and exhausted too....to reflect...
and as anyone who reads this page regularly knows, we always try to thank everyone who made a difference either for us or within us after each tour....this time...there were so many awesome people it was amazing...i will try my best to mention everyone...

The first 9 days of the tour took place in the UK. All of the shows were great really, a step up from our last UK tour earlier in 2004, with the Whitby Gothic Weekend event really being amazing..we saw many old friends, many made new friends and despite Stevyn being rather ill for 2 of the shows and ending up at the doctor, we made it through...Special thanks and mention to: Sabine for being our tour manager and driving us around the UK on the wrong side of the road for 9 days...The entire Goth-Chester, i mean Colchester clan who really are the most amazing UK people and hosted and took care of TLD for all of our off days, and our show, and even at other shows....Martin and Brigitte, for actually sponsoring our tour, buying lots of Chardonnay for Rick, taking care of EVERYTHING for us, Jamie and Mary, for also hosting the band, fixing Rick's guitar, the Drum set...twice, Lynn and Martin for taking care of Stevyn and being so lovely and kind to us, Caz, for being the best stalker we could possibly have...and Syd (From London) who made it to more TLD shows on this tour than anyone. A Special mention to Eldritch as well, who we think is responsible for the rubber chicken episode at Whitby...

From there Sabine went off to the US and we were joined by our lovely and silly yet professional tour manager Dolores...otherwise known to us as D. D is responsible for teaching us such words as "Scheisse" and "Schwul." Both lovely words and now regular parts of TLD vocabulary...next we went to Porto, Portugal with Sex Gang Children and had a really fun time there on our first night with a lovely dinner and club night taken care of by Toni...thank you Toni...our Porto experience was amazing. I can only describe this place as a really big Pirates of the Caribbean (from Disneyland) it was lovely and the club/festival we played was like playing in a movie. The Portuguese people were lovely and very kind and we were honored to meet you and play there. Special thanks to Mariana, Andy and Sex Gang Children, Toni, and the airport customs/immigration girl who when we were leaving took our passports, smiled and told us how sorry she was to miss the show because she had to work...a very rock star moment indeed!

From there it was on to Europe...our next show was in Rostock on a "ghost ship." It was really cool, an old East German Fishing Ship that was being converted into a club venue on water...we had a fun show, and stayed on the ship in the tiny little staterooms...in case you did not know, old East German fishermen were very small and short. the next morning after breakfast there was a fire on the ship and we were quickly told to abandon ship which we did...standing on the dock waiting we were a bit worried because all of our equipment was still on the ship but after 15 minutes the fire was put out, no one was hurt and everything was okay...Next was Frankfurt, a small show but the people there made up for it as did the opening band, Sex Should be Female...wow such nice people and so kind to us..Berlin Followed..with a really fun night playing with Twilight once again and seeing some lovely friends like Yvonne and Elke and Sandra...Jeff however got very ill here and the next morning we were once again at the doctor...After Berlin we went to this small East German City called Griefswald..not knowing what to expect we were so impressed by the people, both staff and crowd...it was an amazing night...special thanks to Fe for being so lovely and taking care of us....to give you an idea...the club staff stayed awake all night after the show so when we returned in the morning to pick up our equipment, they had breakfast there, helped us load everything out...it was definitely hard to leave...lovely people there...

Next was Bochum, one of our favorite places in Germany to play...at Zwischenfall...and once again it was an incredible show and night. The people were amazing, Bloody Dead and Sexy came down as well and their singer joined us on stage for our Stooges cover song...Heavy Current opened the night and they were great..it was cool to meet them in person after they had already done a remix that is part of our new CD...and then there is the lovely Micky, whom we became friends with last year and who will appear on our merch page soon... she did a photo with Rick modeling our TLD Baby-Doll Shirt...and more..

After Bochum there where 3 days off....our friend Yvonne, whom we met last year in Bochum invited us to spend our off days with her and her family at there home in Werl, and it was amazing. Their family was so kind, took such care of us..better then any hotel we have ever stayed at definitely. We got our own private Cirque show (like Cirque du Soleil) twice...once at a party at Yvonne's house...yes they have a Trapezze in their house...awesome! and then also at their Cirque practice facility...where TLD got to play with all the cirque toys and feel really silly and un-talented...it was so much fun...unicycles, spinning plates, etc..Then it was Rick's turn to get sick, and after 2 days of being in bed and a show to play had to go to the doctor as well...so that was 3 out of 4 of TLD that ended up at the doctor...only Peter made it through well...
So then it was on to Schweinfurt, we decided to kidnap Yvonne and take her with us for the rest of the tour...thank you Yvonne!!! special thanks to this girl for taking care of us, putting up with us, giving us the cirque experience, eating Rick's mushrooms (Italian story), fixing Rick's hair...very important...and coming on tour with us...a lovely experience...In Schweinfurt we got to experience German snow, that means really cold, and had a crazy night with goths and US Military people stationed there...thanks to Doris for having us and for the presents for The Last Children!

Italy was next, but our first show got canceled, so we never made it to Florence....so we went to Milan a day early and saw the Cathedral and that was amazing. The show was cool as well, seeing some special friends we had met before like Alex, Kia, Elisa, Julie and Stefania...Italy was different this time, but there are some lovely people there that are very special to TLD...Kia was especially great taking care of us...because Rome was crazy, and she was great to help us through it....and of course a special thanks to Patty and Mother Dance for booking and arranging our tour and making everything happen for us in Europe!

Overall it was a cool tour, Pictures will be posted soon on the photo page...thank you everyone and we appreciate and miss all of you. after some local shows here we are going back into the studio for the first 6 months of 2005 so we will not be touring so much but we hope to see everyone again later in the year when we once again, welcome you to The Last Dance.