IMPACT/THUNDERDOME 2003

IMPACT
CJs, Rosyth, Scotland. Friday 24th October 2003

THUNDEROME

Jaarbeurs Utrecht, Holland Saturday 25th October 2003

BRIEF WEEKEND REPORT. Full report & more photo's to follow

Friday - Impact @ Rosyth Scotland. Canny good, cant remember last 2 hours, free drinks of the geordie barmaid

04:45 Saturday morning, taxi to airport. Cant remember getting on the plane.

Picked u from Airport by a wifey from ID&T'
Posh hotel, shower, shave, mini-bar, McDonalds
Cant find digital camera, must of left it in Scotland
Hotel bar, 50 Euro's for a round !
Sound check at 7pm. Huge venue, like 2 Rezerections.
No stage for our stage show.
25,000 tickets all sold
Nerve's
Hotel
Hotel bar
Go to the party at 11
Ram packed.
Everyone is taller than me
Loose people
Handfull of free beer tokens
Buy silly black & white leopard skin cowboy hats
Walk around talking to mad random people
Loose poeple
Heniken, red bull, jack daniels, heniken, heniken & more sickly sick heniken
Loose people
25,000 people shouting "THUNDER, THUNDER,THUNDERDOME" and millions of fireworks, lighs, flames & allsorts
25,000 mad skinheads all stomping to 160 BPM gabba
Loose people
Scary Nazi type people
Slapping competition to wake us up
Clocks go back, another hour to wait for the PA
Another slapping competion
Get changed, paint face's white, black eye's, put on hannibal lector masks
4:30am, PA time
No stage, so we had to do it in front of the huge stage structure, on the floor, behind a barrier.
Me & boon run out in grey overall's with 666 on the back
Kaz & cat dancers come out in skimpy clothes.
Stand on platform and get 25,000 skinheads clapping along to the beat ! !
Jappo & Dippa - have a mad scratch off, taking turns to scratch. Whole place goes mental.
I kneel on floor and tell Cat to kick me in the face. booted in the side of the head, Boony smashes records of me head. Squash a fake blood capsule on me 4head. Crowd at front look scared.
Cant remember about 15 minutes of it
Me & Boon start fighting, throwing each other around the ground. Organisers look worried !
Smash another capsule in me mooth
Boony looses all his fake capsule's.
Last track, tell Cat to knock me over again and wiggle around on top of me, instead she dives onto me stomach, twice, and I run backstage to be sick, missing the final track, bahh.
Loose poeple
Lift back to hotel, minibar, try to get a Al Spaztech in Glasgow to phone room service for some bottle's of wine ?!
Bottle of wine
Dippa says 2 funny things
Hardcore Ray waisted on the chair thinking he was driving his car and playing a computer game.
Cat comes back with a massive bruised toe.
Sleep.
Wake, changed. Find digital camera (BAHHHH !)
Go to train station to get train to Amsterdam.
Get train to Amsterdam to next hotel
Cats bag is still on the train !
Pub, walk, windows, 2 string banjo player, anther pub. Ask man/woman DJ to play hardcore.
Pub shut at 12
Another pub.
Lots of mad Hells Angels People.
Pub toilet - hardcore Ray wandering around in circle's, hah
Hotel at 3am, 20 packets of crisps & 4 bottles of beer
Drink beer from a shoe
Pass out
Wake up
Pub
Record shop
Train station
Loose Ray
Train to airport
Check in. Ray is there
Kez has lost her passport, thinks its in the lost bag
She gets a temp letter from Immigration - to late for her to check in and has to stay till 10:15 (2:45 now !)
Plane, sleep. Edinburgh
Boony's.
Stella
Sleep
4 hour drive back to Newcastle, stuck in traffic.
Home at 6:25
Work at 7 !