Bruce Lamont - EU tour diary, pt. 1
Bruce Lamont & friends w/ advice
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After Yakuza played this year’s Roadburn Festival, I embarked on part one of my European solo tour. This first half was with Macabre (my friends from back home) along with Rompeprop and Birdflesh. Rodney (Macabre’s manager) and I met up with the band in Hamburg, Germany. The plan was that I would do a short solo set before Macabre every night. The first few nights I did songs from my solo record. Then I started to experiment a bit, creating more improvised intro music for the Macabre set. Corporate Death from Macabre and I did a duet together in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Killer. Another fun part of this tour was I got to dress up at the Zodiac Killer, and go out on stage to kill the audience every night. And, of course, another highlight was playing Easter Sunday when Exhumed were also on the bill, and I got to shred alongside my good bros Danny Walker and Leon del Muerte. Good fucking times.
I want to thank the bands, Rodney, and our bus driver for the next part of the story…
So my original plan was to stay on the Macabre tour until April 30th, and then grab a train to go meet Keelhaul in Brussels for part 2 of the tour (diary coming soon) with Keelhaul. Earlier that week I had received a message from Bartek, the Asymmetry Music festival coordinator in Wroclaw, Poland, asking if I would fill a slot on the Friday night of the fest, replacing an artist who had canceled. On Thursday 4/28, our bus’ route was going right past Wroclaw. After discussing our routing plans back and forth with tour manager Luke and the bus driver on Thursday night/Friday morning at 2am, the decision was made (after many a drink) that they could drop me off at a gas station right outside the city. Four hours later, that’s exactly what happened. I was dropped off Friday 4/29 at 6am at some gas station. I got picked up by car and driven into the city.
The festival was amazing. My buds in Weedeater and Zoroaster were also on the bill – killed it as always. So the next plan was to put me on a 17-hour bus ride the next day to Brussels, but Weedeater’s tour manager Mark offered to take me to Dresden for the last show of their tour and then to Berlin to catch a train on Sunday. I did that and, was glad I did, because in Dresden I sat in with Zoroaster for three tunes of their set on sax, and it FUCKING SLAYED. Weedeater destroyed it as well. So amazing.
The next morning (on about an hour of sleep) I got dropped at the train station and lugged a guitar, two saxophones, a case of pedals (weighing 70 pounds), and my bag onto two different trains and walked about a mile to a hotel in Brussels. Made it.
To be continued…
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Bruce Lamont is a multi-instrumentalist for Yakuza, Bloodiest, Circle of Animals, and more.
We reviewed his solo album Feral Songs for the Epic Decline here.
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BRUCE LAMONT – EU TOUR 2011
Remaining dates, w/ Keelhaul
5/04 Molotow – Hamburg, Germany
5/05 Mantra – Moscow, Russian Federation
5/06 Arctica – St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
5/07 AZ Conni – Dresden, Germany
5/08 Kontich – Lintfabriek, Belgium
5/09 Le Grand Wazoo – Amiens, France
5/10 L’Usine – Geneva, Switzerland
5/12 Magnolia – Milano, Italy
5/13 PMK – Innsbruck, Austria
5/15 007 – Prague, Czech Republic
5/17 Club Schocken – Stuttgart, Germany
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