CDs that don't work, obnoxious friends in Hamburg and "The Big Hit"

Hamburg.

We were on a radio show in Weimar; Florence's radio show.

Sending songs to Florence, because her CD didn't work. This is the third time that a CD hasn't worked for a fan who bought it in the last week. Time has come to get them properly pressed... Gots to do it... however, as usual, we need money first.

I think we will busk today. The two items on the agenda: to BUSK and to have a MEETING. Our record label, Capsule, folded, so now we are back left to our own devices. We have to... HAVE to get our stuff on itunes, along with many many other things.

Watched "The Big Hit" last night. It was pretty bad but I couldn't stop myself from watching it til the end, even though my eyelids were dropping constantly.

We played in Hamburg and our dear friend, Alexander was trying to sell CDs afterwards and two girls said "they have their tunes on myspace. That's fine with me. I don't need their album" and right away, I was thinking, okay, let's make them 30 second samples on myspace aside from perhaps ONE full song available. That kinda pissed me off. I mean, I GUESS I understand it, but still... depressing.

That night was a pretty fun show, aside from the sound being wayyyyyyyy too quiet (neighbours). A lot of the usual suspects were there, and it was fun having them. Made enough cash to keep things going for a few days.

We were invited by a longtime friend to go to Cubik; a club. We finally got everything together to go, and left... I had a nice chat with metal K about her feature film idea en route, but my other friend was super drunk and started making fun of me about my age. She was being really drunk and obnoxious. I was put off. So, two blocks away from the club, at 3:20am, wandering down a cold cold street, X and I decided to return. But it was good because we had a nice long chat about the state of Trike, goals for the band etc. It was really nice because with Ineke, I find we get unfocused... different energies. We NEED focus right now. We have a few shows soon but lots of time off, so we have to sort out a LOT of gritty shit; including goals, promotion etc... not to mention planning for getting to shows etc in the next while.

We wanted to busk today but other things seem to be taking over: Planning, getting bus tickets because driving in Scandanavia is a bitch etc.

Truth is, I've been getting a bit exhausted from touring. My back was SUCH a bitch since my fall in Prague. It has been getting better, however, and now feels much better than even a week ago. But asides from that, both of us are really feeling the need to be more creative and productive. We're really happy with the new album and have to get it out, but we need a strategy to do so. We also have to sort out things re: website and getting label interest/ manager interest. Lots of things to sort out. Not to mention the basic necessities of feeding ourselves and ensuring we have cash coming in, which is where busking comes in.

Last year we were used to busking almost every day to survive... we've fallen off the wagon, gotten used to doing shows and getting paid, however measly, at times.

Ineke just said she might leave the tour early to return to Holland. Great. Dunno why exactly. Maybe she's tired of us and our antics. Guess we'll have to figure out transportation earlier now. Hope we can afford it.

Man, this tour has some high points, but much of it has been kinda disastrous. Some great shows... but now we're just feeling like sitting ducks. We have an album we're happy with and want to get it out, get exposure etc. At least...