Lavotchkin Tour Diary Day Eleven: Norwich

A lock in of the worst kind on the Lavotchkin tour blog today!

Posted Thursday, 8 July 2010 by Lavotchkin in

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We woke up today having stayed at Alex Throats house last night. Pretty standard morning before heading for Norwich.

Traffic all the way to Norwich made a somewhat easy drive into a bit of a nightmare today. We were first to arrive at the venue so since it was our first time in the city we had a good wander around in search of mischief. No joy though so we headed back to the venue in favour of getting drunk.

The JCQ guys were the next to arrive having got caught in even worse traffic than ourselves, though were telling us they had bumped into Frankie from the Saturdays in a service station and had forced a conversation out of the poor girl as well as pushing a JCQ CD on her. Top work.

So a load in and a fair few beers later the show was just about to start with quite a nice amount of people outside. Next thing we know a bouncer and policeman turned up and from there a large part of the evening began sliding down the toilet. The bouncer firstly began walking round everyone in bands drinking cans from our rider, saying if we were caught with one outside the venue we'd be kicked out. The Bouncer then refused to let anyone in who didn't have I.D with them enter the venue cutting the crowd there pretty much in half. Following that the bouncer and policeman proceeded to loudly talk about how anyone stepping outta line would get removed from the venue. Very welcoming ... Haha

Anyway, the show began and all was going well until it was time for us to play. Four songs in and the sound guy ran up to us and said that the landlady has just come into the venue twice complaining about the noise and said if we didn't turn right down the show was gonna get pulled. I understand venues having neighbours and not wanting to cause trouble, but still, we ended up having to finish our set with our amps on 0.5 and 1.5 out of 10. Totally killed our set, though there was nothing we could do as Throats were on after us and we didn't want to ruin the show for them.

Throats went on straight after us and naturally turned right up. Rather than pulling the show the landlady's response (bizarrely) was to lock the venue doors with everyone inside so that no one could leave the venue or get in. When we realised what had happened our Si and a random guy pulled at the door until the lock broke open so people could get out. This was officially the weirdest show of the tour and the stupidest venue we've had the pleasure of visiting for a long long while.

Although the show was a bit crazy this was still the last show we had of the tour with The JCQ which we were all real gutted about. We went out with an intoxicated bang and finished the night with most of us getting prison tattoo's in The JCQ van. The JCQ are 1. A good band 2. Good dudes and 3. A bit nuts, but in the very best of ways. New brothers from different mothers.

We said our goodbyes and headed to Boston to stay with one of our good mates Gibbo. We arrived at 3am and after a couple of hours chit chat later we all hit the hay.

Tunes that were rockin the Lav stereo to accompany the traffic and journey to Boston was Give Up The Ghost, Bill Withers, Cursed, Brand New and AC Fuckin DC.

Martin & The Lavotchkin's

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