The fellas are playing stages far and wide for their three week trek across the pond. One of the big highlights was playing to over 2000 folks in downtown Berlin. Here is some info coming in from the fellas over on their news section of RenoDivorceBand.com
5.3.12
"It's hard at times to truly be able to
give fans and family a good perspective of life on the road unless you
have been out here with us. I know that most of you live from a
perspective of, those guys are just on one big long vacation of endless
parties countless adoring fans and an imaginary road crew that travels
with us so that we just walk out on to the stage.....as good as that
sounds it is very far from the norm...we work extremely hard out here
with no days off most of the time, all in the hope that more than 25
people will show up to the club that night to enjoy the show along with
buying up some merch so that we will have enough gas to get down the
road to the next city. The shows in the Czech Republic were ones that I
thought would be some of the biggest, but in the end turned out a
little light, which manly has to do with promotion and the fact that we
played on the same night as one of their favorite holidays, but a HUGE
thanks goes out to all the adoring CZ fans that came out those nights to
watch us. Now please, do not take from this that i'm complaining at
all, as a band we have done things that most bands back home would beg
to do, but at times I fill my head with doubt and wonder if the hours
and hours that I have spent away from my, our, families and friends is
paying off.....then we are treated to the show we had in BERLIN!!!
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| Reno Divorce at Kuz Kreuz in Germany |
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| Strolling through Dresden, Germany |
We did not expect this show to be as big as it was. A few years
ago we were fortunate enough to be asked to play at the With Full Force
Festival, which a band at our level was very lucky to play, we performed
in front of more than 3000 out of control german fans, which thus far
has been the highlight of our careers. Now the show in Berlin I
predicted at best would be a small festival where we played on the grass
underneath a tent....I couldn't have been more wrong. We were set up
on a mobile stage right in the middle of downtown Berlin where I'm
guessing at least 2000 watched and more than 6 to 8000 people passed by
as we played. "Mayday" in Berlin in like nothing I have experienced.
We saw at least 60 to 80 police vans and 500 or more cops dressed in
full riot gear....it was fucking insane. See what I mean....the turn
around.
The gig
that was played here in Zlotow, PL at the Generator club was rad!! This
is a town that we have never played before and had no idea how it would
turn out....Thank you to all the new fans that came out and to the
hospitality of the promoter and his crew. I can only hope that the
pictures come out showing the crowd at different times during the show
lifting Brent and I up to crowd surf while we were still playing come
out, that was a first for both of us. Now, I'm not saying that while
this was happening my guitar playing was any good but I did give it my
all and was praying that they weren't going to drop me on my head. This
is an area without a doubt that we want and will come back to.
So tonight we are off to Warsaw and without jinxing anything I only see blue skies ahead"
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| Timmy giving the horns on some downtime backstage on the road in Europe |
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| Reno Divorce catching up on all things promotions and email on the road in Europe |
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| Timmy, Brent, Reuben and Tye of Reno Divorce |
4.27.12
"So the first time we were in Italy was
over 2 1/2 years ago, when we played only one date while on tour with
the US Bombs...So the first 5 dates of the tour (aside from the first
one in Timelkam) started in Italy.
The first question I had was answered extremely quickly, "Will the
Italian's coffee reputation hold up?" Oh my GOD, it surpassed all my
expectations and the best part was the price. It was much cheaper than
we normally pay at home. Now the bad news is that I'm going to have to
go back on regular coffee which before was very enjoyable but now fails
in comparison to it's Italian counterpart.
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| Reuben, Timmy and Tye of Reno Divorce at the Coliseum in ancient Rome |
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| Tye, Reuben and Timmy of Reno Divorce at the Coliseum in ancient Rome |
We want to give a huge thank you to all the fans that came out to
these first 5 shows. Playing during the week is usually hit and miss
anyway, but everything ran very smooth and being able to have a little
bit of time to visit the Colosseum in Rome was also a huge treat. There
are so many things that the band would like to have time to stop and
check out but when you have 5 and 6 hour drives everyday it normally
just isn't possible.
The first gig was in Kaltern which is actually a german speaking
region, day 2 in Massa, day 3 in Rome, day 4 in Montecchio, and the
final day in Rho/ Milan. All of the promoters treated us with tons of
respect and are looking forward to the next time we come back. We also
were very fortunate to make friends with a band that has been touring
Europe for a while....THE MAHONES!! This is a great band and just a
wonderful group of people to hang out with. At last years Sjock
festival in Holland we only talked with them briefly before they hit the
stage, so this was a cool opportunity to be able to play a few shows
with them. I know that from our end, we would be more than happy to be
able to do more shows with Finny, his wife Katie and the rest of the
boys!!! Thanks guys
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| Food to go in Italy, small salad of Mozzarella and tomatoes |
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| Fans in Italy were stoked to see the band |
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| Italy brought an amazing welcome reception to Reno Divorce |
Another great highlight of these shows was the gig in Montecchio in
which we played a show with the legendary punk band 7 Seconds. Kevin
and the guys could not have been nicer to us and we are really looking
forward to our gig with them tomorrow in Fulda. Most of their set
consists of their earlier music from the first two albums....Lots of
energy and a pleasure to watch..
To close out, our close friend Doug who is here with us to help out
with the merch is still here and the good news is that he made it past
the first week without taking the first plane back to the States. We
win....anyway look for another tour update in a few days...... L8R
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| Reno Divorce at Kutna Hora |
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| Reno Divorce after their show in the Czech republic |
