Post by Dan the G-Man on Dec 4, 2003 19:31:37 GMT -5
Road Report 10 For '99
Hey there.........
It's Ms Manson here...writing from a studio deep inside Canadian borders under rainy Vancouver skies. We're holed up here putting the finishing touches to the theme song for the next Bond movie "The World is Not Enough." The Bond theme has been a long-term ambition of ours so as you can imagine to secure one has generated great excitement inside the Garbage Camp. Keep those lugs of yours tuned to the radio. You'll be hearing it soon! (Lugs.........a scottish word meaning ears.)
So anyway.......I thought I would scribble you all a quick note to let you know what we have been up to of late. I can't remember the last time any of us found the time to write but I'm sure of one thing.......it was an absolute AGE ago. Apologies, apologies.
Seriously though......we have been touring non stop and seem to be constantly over worked and fighting fatigue. If we had found the time to write, we would have. That's not to say the last three months haven't been unbelievably amazing because I don't think we have ever had such a mind blowing three months in our lives.
So first off....thank you to each and every one of you who turned up under the sweltering sunshine or the pouring rain to catch us play at the various summer festivals we appeared at across the globe. You are the BOMB!!!! Without your support our vibe would be CRUSHED!!!!
Even though we chartered our own private plane from A to B (drop dead glamourous I admit) and even though whilst visiting Poland for the first time we discovered the "Charlottka" our current favourite cocktail, a lethal yet delicious combination of Bison Vodka and applejuice......things just wouldn't have been the same without you.
And then of course there was our appearance at the Tibetan Freedom Concert where we got to watch from the side of the stage as Tom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood (the cutest, most darling man in rock) played an extra special accoustic set. It was totally wicked. Completely sublime.
I guess one of the most far flung places we found ourselves in was Israel where we all rode camels and stuffed our faces with Falafel!!! (Man those camels can be MEAN.) We also took a day trip to Jerusalem and regardless of ones beliefs or otherwise, it was a profoundly moving experience. It's difficult to remain untouched by the general atmosphere in the city. The Wailing Wall gave us all the shivers......as did the casual pointing out by our guide of the Garden of Gesthemane, where depending on your religious beliefs, Jesus was supposed to have spent his last night before being seized by the guards of Pontius Pilot. There's even rumoured to be a particular syndrome specific to those who have visited Jerusalem where visitors become so overwhelmed by the experience that they lose their minds. (The boys keep joking that I am currently suffering from it. Bloody cheek...they should talk.)
On the first of July, we opened the first Scottish Parliment in 300 years by playing a concert underneath Edinburgh Castle which, as you can imagine was an enormous honour for us. It's not often that a band gets to participate in a historical occasion of such magnitude. Later on that month we also climbed the Acroplis in Athens to view the Parthenon.....Iggy Pop knocked on our dressing room door at the Midtfyns festival to wish us luck and then of course there was my audience with Patti Smith, one of my all time heroines, whereupon I totally lost all my cool and had to choke down tears..........she was all that I hoped she would be.......untouchable...............divine.
Our final destination before returning across the Atlantic was a ten day trip to South Africa where our minds were totally blown wide open. We took off on a day safari and you don't know terror until you are standing face to face with a real life rhino! I kid you not.......you'd better not fuck with those boys......let me tell you. It was totally weird. It felt so unreal and surreal, almost as though the park had been digitally created for our enjoyment. Like one massive realtime Jurassic Park! We even tracked some elephants for about an hour but unfortunately never found them.............only a huge pile of Elephant poop which seemed to consist entirely of grass and little else. Not too disgusting considering the size of them!!!!!
Talking of poop......perhaps the only cloudy moment on the entire tour was our show in Singen, Germany where the organizers omitted to provide us with backstage facilities and I had to pee and poop into a paper cup which was decidedly Lo-fi and not in the least bit diva-like. I ask you...........somewhere in my wicked childhood I must have done something truly unforgivable to warrant such treatment. I mean....what on earth was I supposed to do? Do it in my pants?
And so on that note my dear monsters.....I shall depart and leave you with these words of wisdom: Be careful where, when or on whom you poop for fear that when, where or whom has a memory like an elephant.(?!?!?!?!?!)
Ha ha ha....................
I'm going. I'm going.
Kiss kiss kiss
Ms S A Manson
Hey there.........
It's Ms Manson here...writing from a studio deep inside Canadian borders under rainy Vancouver skies. We're holed up here putting the finishing touches to the theme song for the next Bond movie "The World is Not Enough." The Bond theme has been a long-term ambition of ours so as you can imagine to secure one has generated great excitement inside the Garbage Camp. Keep those lugs of yours tuned to the radio. You'll be hearing it soon! (Lugs.........a scottish word meaning ears.)
So anyway.......I thought I would scribble you all a quick note to let you know what we have been up to of late. I can't remember the last time any of us found the time to write but I'm sure of one thing.......it was an absolute AGE ago. Apologies, apologies.
Seriously though......we have been touring non stop and seem to be constantly over worked and fighting fatigue. If we had found the time to write, we would have. That's not to say the last three months haven't been unbelievably amazing because I don't think we have ever had such a mind blowing three months in our lives.
So first off....thank you to each and every one of you who turned up under the sweltering sunshine or the pouring rain to catch us play at the various summer festivals we appeared at across the globe. You are the BOMB!!!! Without your support our vibe would be CRUSHED!!!!
Even though we chartered our own private plane from A to B (drop dead glamourous I admit) and even though whilst visiting Poland for the first time we discovered the "Charlottka" our current favourite cocktail, a lethal yet delicious combination of Bison Vodka and applejuice......things just wouldn't have been the same without you.
And then of course there was our appearance at the Tibetan Freedom Concert where we got to watch from the side of the stage as Tom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood (the cutest, most darling man in rock) played an extra special accoustic set. It was totally wicked. Completely sublime.
I guess one of the most far flung places we found ourselves in was Israel where we all rode camels and stuffed our faces with Falafel!!! (Man those camels can be MEAN.) We also took a day trip to Jerusalem and regardless of ones beliefs or otherwise, it was a profoundly moving experience. It's difficult to remain untouched by the general atmosphere in the city. The Wailing Wall gave us all the shivers......as did the casual pointing out by our guide of the Garden of Gesthemane, where depending on your religious beliefs, Jesus was supposed to have spent his last night before being seized by the guards of Pontius Pilot. There's even rumoured to be a particular syndrome specific to those who have visited Jerusalem where visitors become so overwhelmed by the experience that they lose their minds. (The boys keep joking that I am currently suffering from it. Bloody cheek...they should talk.)
On the first of July, we opened the first Scottish Parliment in 300 years by playing a concert underneath Edinburgh Castle which, as you can imagine was an enormous honour for us. It's not often that a band gets to participate in a historical occasion of such magnitude. Later on that month we also climbed the Acroplis in Athens to view the Parthenon.....Iggy Pop knocked on our dressing room door at the Midtfyns festival to wish us luck and then of course there was my audience with Patti Smith, one of my all time heroines, whereupon I totally lost all my cool and had to choke down tears..........she was all that I hoped she would be.......untouchable...............divine.
Our final destination before returning across the Atlantic was a ten day trip to South Africa where our minds were totally blown wide open. We took off on a day safari and you don't know terror until you are standing face to face with a real life rhino! I kid you not.......you'd better not fuck with those boys......let me tell you. It was totally weird. It felt so unreal and surreal, almost as though the park had been digitally created for our enjoyment. Like one massive realtime Jurassic Park! We even tracked some elephants for about an hour but unfortunately never found them.............only a huge pile of Elephant poop which seemed to consist entirely of grass and little else. Not too disgusting considering the size of them!!!!!
Talking of poop......perhaps the only cloudy moment on the entire tour was our show in Singen, Germany where the organizers omitted to provide us with backstage facilities and I had to pee and poop into a paper cup which was decidedly Lo-fi and not in the least bit diva-like. I ask you...........somewhere in my wicked childhood I must have done something truly unforgivable to warrant such treatment. I mean....what on earth was I supposed to do? Do it in my pants?
And so on that note my dear monsters.....I shall depart and leave you with these words of wisdom: Be careful where, when or on whom you poop for fear that when, where or whom has a memory like an elephant.(?!?!?!?!?!)
Ha ha ha....................
I'm going. I'm going.
Kiss kiss kiss
Ms S A Manson