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There is two important things to remember before leaving on a tour!!!

Number 1:
Don't bring stuff you don't need!
3% of the time is the show you play, 15% is spent waiting, 70% is spent sleeping or traveling, and 12% you spend loading and unloading all equipment. If you have to much stuff 82% of the tour is spent either cramped inside an overloaded vehicle or trying to get everything inside or out of it. Which sucks big time...

Number 2:
Don't bring to little!
You need spares of everything, cables, guitars, strings, sticks, microphones and so on. And just because the venue is suppose to have a thing, it doesn't mean that they do got it. And if your guitar breaks, or the venue don't have any mic-stands, those precious 3% of the whole time on tour spent actually playing, will suck big time instead...

The solution to this paradox is yet unknown to mankind I'm afraid. But we have developed a little trick in the band that we use to apply. I'm not sure of the English word for it, but in Sweden it is know as the "Ole dole doff".


By now our van is loaded to the maximum, and we are leaving from Stockholm tomorrow morning, at the break of dawn for Puttgarden in Germany, where will take a rest for a few hours at a cheap hotel before continuing to Belgium for our first show.
On our way down through Sweden we will have to make a quick stop in the Malmö though, to by new drums for Rackarn. I have heard rumors that says they are silver sparkling, which is a sign of pure power and good beats.

At this moment I am lying on the floor in the guest room at the house of my good friend Tom K, also the singer in our band. And Rackarn is trying to sleep beside me. So now I'm gonna start spend some of this days 70% little of sleeping.

Over and out, cosmonaut.
/Affe


PS. I forgot one important item in the gear list i provided it the previous post:
Athlete's foot ointment (since trench foot is a common symptom on the road)