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Yes we’re back from Germany, the valley of Taubertal and nearly back from the hangovers

Early Thursday morning TWK flew in style from City Airport (all paid for) to play our 1st open air summer festival!

Taubertal Festival is one of Germany’s main music festivals. Its kept pretty small and hidden away in the Taubertal Valley. Overlooked by an almost untouched Bavarian village called Rothenburg. The village is all within the castle’s city walls! Its amazingly beautiful and we were staying in the hostel in the grounds of the castle! Awesome!

After landing Thursday morning we took a 2hr coach from Frankfurt airport to Rothenburg. Dumped the Kit off, got our passes, then went for lunch. Lunch never really happened, nor did tea as we discovered 1 litre beer jugs in a Bavarian beer garden!

Many jugs later we staggered home but passing the main square met some locals with guitars! They thought we were important when we said we were playing the festival! They bought us beers and asked us to play some of our music. Well we’re not going to turn that kinda offer down are we? We played until early hours, people came and went, taking photo’s, joining in etc as we made  friends the kids of Rothenburg!

Next day we were playing Emergenza stage @ 5pm. Needless to say we were not in a good shape! The Germans told us Bavarian beer never gives you a hangover! They lie, they lie!!!!!

A few snoozes, several litres of water and three Red Bulls we walked on stage! A super quick plug in, line check, and off again to wait for our intro. Walter our compare and an integral member of the Emergenza team gave us a history making intro speech and the smoke machines went off! We could see a pretty sparse crowd sitting down and not really paying attention. We all thought, “oh well, hear we go” but what surprised us is the rate at which people flooded toward the stage! By our third song people were squashed against the barriers and every one in the middle was fully dancing away! Now that’s a proper festival! Girls with beads and scruffy hair dancing in the sun…..proper!   A big cheer sounded as we finished and we were totally made up with that as a result

Check out the pics I’ve put together below of our trip!

The rest of the weekend we became members of the crowd as we watched the other bands and partied hard into the night! Every night consisted of meeting up with all the other bands in the ‘Rock Cafe’ in the center of the village! It was called rock cafe but apart from the guitar in the window its just a normal bar. Night generally turned pretty messy once we were there, but not one evening failed to turn into multi national a sing along with guitars!

All the band we met were amazing! We had such a wicked time. We’d like to say thank you to The Maccabees for being cool and spending time with us and same for all the other bands for being so cool! You know who you are! We’ll meet you all again at some point for sure! Keep in touch boys n girls!

Now for us its back to normality with our London gigs! Cant wait to get stuck in!

Next up MONTO WATER RATS (this Friday 14th Aug 2009)

We’ll update you later on that!

Cheers Peeps

Catch you soon

TWK.x