It was hard to leave Grenoble, especially with a hell of a hangover. I just remember some flashbacks of me screaming at poor but amused french people "Rakija is always a good idea! Yes! Rakija is always good!".
Rakija is not always a good idea... It's fun, and it always adds a bit of "trouble" in the overall atmosphere. But, if you overdo it, especially in combination with other alcoholic beverages - it can lead to a really bad memory that will stick with you in the form of an awful headache and the feeling of overall down and nausyness. But at those times you just contemplate your life a bit and at some point start drinking again, and it gets better.
Anyways, we hanged around Grenoble for some time. Niko (our host) took us around town, and to the record shop, and so on. We had a meal with the rest of the beautiful and talented people at the house, said our goodbyes, cried a bit, and packed our stuff.
We continued towards Saint Etienne. It was an awesome ride, absolutely beautiful scenery. The whole place (geologically) is quite flat and in a plain, so you can see far away in the distance. It's just kilometers and kilometers of pure awesomeness with overtones of brutal mountains.
At some point we stopped in some french village, I entered "the bar" and 4 faces looked at me - drunkly - in awe. I just nodded and asked "caffe?" with my best french accent, and they all nodded at the same time. Oui! That's it.
We sat at the bar with the rest of the company, they drank their little wines, we drank our little coffees, and listened to their vivid conversation. At one point, my bass player @grobenski recorded a part of the conversation, and sent it to his girlfriend. She just said: "It's a strange accent, I cant quite understand everything because of the noise. But one person is postponing something, and the others agree.". We figured, they're an awesome crew.
Every person that entered in the bar shook our hand, and waved us goodbye when we left.
After that we arrived in Saint Etienne.
You can feel the difference from Grenoble at once. The city is much more city-like. More urban but more laid-back. It looks like there are a lot of clubs there.
We were greeted by our friend Gabriel, who published our LP in France with his record label Vox Project. He is a great guy, and has helped us a lot with this tour and overall.
We played in small club, but it was packed and sold out! :D (30-ish people). The gig was great, even better than the night before because we could be louder and more energetic. At one point I almost killed everybody with my kick drum, at least that's what my bandmate @bonvivan said. But he's not a trustworthy person, and I'm already deaf so I don't care.
The people were very happy and satisfied.
Anyways, the show after ours was absolutely amazing! Just these two young dudes came in with two tables filled with different pedals and started noising out. Their name is "Turbocrassier".
It was absolutely INSANE! Everything, from the noise to the rhythms was inter-twined and twisted. You can see that the dudes know what they're doing, because the rhythm changes were so natural and the composition was fluid all the time. Everything was absolutely awesome. You should check them out! I know that I want these guys in my life. Awesome shit!
Overall, it was an awesome night, a really great gig, and a perfect event. Thanks to Gab for organizing that <3. Anyways, that night we didn't stay up so late. We slept just above the club, and we were too exhausted from the night before. So we all decided to sleep and rest and leave the sight-seeing for the next day.