ALL BORE JOURNAL PHOTOS BY JAY WALKER FROM HERE ON AND UNTIL FOREVER.
*so blame him if you look ugly or we talk shit about you*
ALL BORE JOURNAL PHOTOS BY JAY WALKER FROM HERE ON AND UNTIL FOREVER.
*so blame him if you look ugly or we talk shit about you*
Amsterdam, what can't be said about that place, fuck Vegas the shit that stay in Amsterdam is real. White Flag opened the show, they have been around as long as NOFX, way more Mustaches
Amsterdam is the Best City in the World Amsterdam is the Best City in the WorldAmsterdam is the Best City in the World Amsterdam is the Best City in the World Amsterdam is the Best City in the World v Amsterdam is the Best City in the World Amsterdam is the Best City in the World Amsterdam is the Best City in the World Amsterdam is the Best City in the World. Got it?
Luxembourg the smallest country we have ever been to, in fact Mike told them they are not even a city, but a town.
HELLFEST-CLISSON FRANCE
SLAYER-MOTORHEAD-NOFX
WOW
MORE HELLFEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Southside Festival, at a small airport in Southern Germany, this and Hurricane really are nice festivals. We Really had fun.
The Beatsteaks headlined both nights and it was quite amazing.
Hurricane Festival, Big deal
At the Hurricane Festival we saw The Weakerthans play at One Am in a nice tent.
ROCK THE WEAK Festival Bologna Italy. Well what can we say, it was a great festival, except it was just a normal punk show.
Weak the Rock was so fun we have more !!!!!!!!!!!!
If only this were everyday. Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
So fun, Italy beat France so the crowd liked us, we were sure pulling for em.
Greenfield Festival Switzerland.
"Surprise Lincoln Park can't make it, but we Got Bad Religion"
-Bummer. (sarcasm)
Day Two: Bolzano Italy.
a special civic festival in a small town.
Day One: The Nova Rock Festival
Us and about 50 bands we never heard of, oh and Die Artze.
Today we arrive in Vienna, they call it Wien.
We had a week of rehearsals at the Famous Arena open air, to prepare all the production and pyrotechnics for the tour.
Portland Oregon the last show of another long and strenuous Journey, wowwee we really went out with a Bang
Right in the ears.
Seattle Washington after a very rough time getting back into the USA, (half our crew get profiled every-time they come home)
we made it to Seattle
Lots of special guests this night.
Vancouver BC has one of the best Venues in the world, The Commodore Ballroom.
We had Fun their, some local dude played guitar and of Course BRAS!!!!!!!
Calgary, Alberta
home of the Stampede which is a fancy name for a Rodeo.
It Rained luckily we were inside.
Hefe played trumpet on a song with No Use everynight, we have proof.
Edmonton Alberta we played a quaint little joint, it really felt like home, if your a tractor at a farm expo.
This tour was great for prosthesis's offered to Mike
Salt Lake to Missoula MT
Weird, Weirder Weirdest.
Salt Lake City Utah, wild stuff, Bearded Claw Man was the highlight.
Denver CO Sold Out!
Lots of dropping, name dropping that is
Denver was little tough, some team members subbing in for others.
Lots of quick line changes.
Substitutions and cause confusion, but its illusion. Ask a Penguin?
Denver not unlike LA
Dear Fans of the Bore Journal,
we need to extend apologies to both of you for our lack of Bore on this short jaunt, due to the abundance of friends and family in the Great Northwest and mega assholes controlling both sides of the border, there has been precious little time. We will get it together right after tour and update it fully with out misadventures.
Here we are in Antarctica, take that Fall Out Boy!
Fuck wait did we really forget to show Less Than Jake play a song on our gear?
what idiots we are, those are some of the funest guys you could know.
Check out Drum and Drummer
Mess with Texas was a Mess, maybe the most people that have ever been on stage with us.
Then there was Kevin, who has seen our band more, yet never for this long.
The most and least hairy of our crew visit our friend Kevin at his real Barbershop in Austin.
Avenue Barbershop-Since 1933
1710 South Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas 78704
GO THERE
World Premier of NOFX:Backstage Passport-BIG DEAL
Clusterfuck Music and Film festival 2008 Austin TX
What a great tour, kinda long but pretty fun.
Big Finale in Minnesota eh?
Dave Nassie attacked the pile with a Jag.
Matt Riddle met his match.
If this is what you looked at everyday at work...
Many days in the midwest seem to have passed without incident, to boring even for these pages, here are some highlights if you will.
TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA TULSA
I'm proud to be an Okey from Miss... huh?
Tulsa wqs fun, like 10 times more fun than expected, tough crowd, as in they stood up well to our abuse. And Bras.
Dallas TX House of Blues
So Mike gives this kid in the red shirt $100 to eat his 2 haired booger.
Fuck was Dallas fun. After the show Mike poked fun at a god botherer with a megaphone. The dufus was a day late for Manson.
Leap year day in Austin at Stubb's BBQ was super duper fun.
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Jennifer Abeyta fills in for her husband on the guitar during the Decline in Austin TX
El Paso was boring, nothing happened at all.
Jacksonville Florida, so Florida it ain't even Florida.
So here's what happened, Mike gets this girl to let him wear her sweet hat during the show, then at the end, he throws it into the crowd. Girl gets a and cop brings him backstage. The girl is crying (literally) that Mike "stole" her $130 hat. Mike offers $105 nope, $110 nope, $120 nope... fine he gives her $130, the cop can't even believe it.
Well here we are back on tour under the orange alert in Florida, finally we feel safe again.
For a couple of days, there were only women selling T-Shirts, neat.
Melvin's a Gimme!!!1
after 16 hours of delays and diversions Eric Melvin's Me First and the Gimme Gimmes arrive in Australia and nearly rock Brisbane.
Were at nude beaches, frolicking with the Kangaroo's and eating Pies.
Fat Mike is bowling, must be 40.
Eric Melvin's Chinese Hockey Adventure-Day 6
Eric Melvin's Chinese Hockey Adventure-Day 5
Eric Melvin's Chinese Hockey Adventure Day 3
Eric Melvin's Chinese Hockey Adventure
On our first morning, we went to the Great Wall of China. Ok, I’ve already ‘been there, done that’ with NOFX, but this time is different. This time, it’s nearly freezing! And blowing so cold!
Pay no attention to the my team mate here next to me barely wearing a jacket, he’s got Russian blood flowing in his veins. See the wall behind us?
Day 1, Game1:
We lost to the Chinese 11-7, but I don’t mind, I’m used to losing. My San Francisco team hasn’t won a game yet either. Hmmm, what’s the common factor here? Let me think, what could it be….Oh yeah, we’re both new teams!
I’ll send pictures as soon as I get a hold of some.
Day 1, After game
We drank chinese beers in a shuttle to the station, and then carry all our crap a mile to the platform. My legs are gonna be sore. Get on the train in Beijing for an overnight ride to Changchun.
Check out me and my other team mates trying to fit four guys, bags and hockey gear into a sleeper on the train. Oh yeah, I'm trying to grow a mustache for the Gimmes tour. And see that cut on my forehead? Aren't hockey injuries cool? Well this one isn't one of those
More Spain, birmingham revisited and Spaniards in Monstour T-shirts are neat.
Out of Africa
Spain was a blast, we had not been there in a long time, it was nice ya'll still care.
Animals are neat. People are less neat.
Before we went, everyone was on and on about how dangerous Johannesburg was, the only thing that happened was the small ipod that we used to play music between bands was stolen, by some douche at the show. the rest of the time we were totally fine.
On serious note we did go on a tour of Soweto, we saw the big house Winnie got in the divorce, and the monument which read "In memory of Hector Peterson and all the young heros and heroines of our stuggle who laid down their lives for freedom, peace and democracy." google it.
South Africa? Oh ya, we did some shows while we were there.
They had a Robot to run sound,and the fencing was amazing.
oh and safety was a priority at all times.
Here we are still in Africa, we went to the very bottom edge of the continent, it was neat.
We saw whales, they were neat.
We ate worms, they were not so neat
Here we are at the very end of the "Dark Continent"
it was pretty awesome, big thanks to Nick, ,J Bones and Malcolm and all the people that took such great care of us down there.
Hi Africa, here we are, our second to last continent, and probably our last, seeing as how no one is likely to invite us to antarctica to play their research base.
Day Three in the UK, Bristol. What a great town, to bad its not at all in anyway one little bit punk.
With one exception, it totally is.
London London oh how we love thee, you never let us down do you?
Another big night at the Brixton Academy, neat.
First show in the UK was pretty fun,Tat opened then The Loved Ones played. Dave Hause play the guitar on the end of the Decline
NOFX Arrive inthe UK
be sure this will be boooooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrinnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggggg!!!!!
But the next stop is South Africa, for real.
Last day, Budapest Hungary, no much to report, Ignite played again, the singer Zoli is from here.
Vlad III the Impaler (Vlad ?epe? IPA: ['tsepe?] in common Romanian reference; also known as Vlad Dracula or Vlad Dr?culea and Kaz?kl? Bey in Turkish; November or December, 1431 – December 1476) was Prince (voivode) of Wallachia, a former polity that is now part of Romania. His three reigns were in 1448, 1456–62, and 1476. In the English-speaking world, Vlad is best known for the legends of the exceedingly cruel punishments he imposed during his reign and for supposedly serving as the primary inspiration for the vampire main character in Bram Stoker's popular Dracula novel.
As king, he maintained an independent policy in relation to the Ottoman Empire, and in Romania he is viewed by many as a prince with a deep sense of justice[1] and a defender of Wallachia against Ottoman expansionism.
The next Stop is Sofia Bulgaria, seemed like people came form far and wide to this show, and Ignite played they are nice.
Istanbul but we still preffer Constantinople, the Club was dark and being in it for 2 hours was like smoking 3 packs of cigarettes, tough place to be a fish and the load in was Bizarre
All in All Israel was super awesome, so many people asked if we were scared to go there, and really its way scarier in Detroit, Oakland, LA, Florida etc.
Last show in Israel, Haifa was very eventful.
Mike broke his Bass on Melvins head, it didn't even slow Melvin down. we did have to borrow a Bass to finnish the show
Things got crazier by the hour in Israel, some French kids tried to convince us we had to go to Palestine, but Jews in Palestine, NOT A HOT ITEM.
We did play Tel Aviv and it was one of the best shows of all time.
Day One in Israel, Jerusalem went to the Wailing wall Mike and Melvin got wrapped up and did some reading.
Jerusalem has many sites, we missed most of em.
Day off in Tel Aviv, is a day full of sunshine and happiness.
In Fact it was the hottest day of the year, pleanty of powder required. we walked and walked and walked in Jaffa saw lots of old stuff.
At Last the Jews have made it to Israel, and boy is it hot.
Hummus and Falafel flow like lava.
Safely out of Russia we played some festivals with some very "Big Deal" Groups, in Germany, Austria and Italy,before embarking on our adventure in Israel.
BIG Rock Festival in Germany, and the didn't get enough extention chords for NIN's lights, so we all had to suffer.
Toady in Austria we played a festival with The Bloodhound Gang. Those guys are nuts pissing and puking on each other, highly recommended, high value entertainment.
Mike and Evil Jared Hasselhoff found they had a lot in common.
Still in Russia still fun. "Not one thing about this place wasn't awesome"-Fat Mike
Russia
Did we mention the Mad Caddies we there? Did we mention that we all went to Red Square after the show? Did we mention we all took the overnight train from St Petersburg to Moscow and wrecked it?
Everyone kept saying,"Why hurry there plenty of time to get to the airport,why all the Russian?"
St Petersburg was okay, 4th best show of the tour, but Moscow was amazing fun. soooo sorry to everyone that had tickets and only got as far as the stairs.
Finlands over time to get the train to Russia, first stop St Petersburg.
After Germany we went to Trondheim Norway , here is a view of the stage from the hotel.
Norway sure was nice after that we flew to Finland
here we are back on the Road first stop Germany for rehearsal and a punk show.
Bali, Bali ,Bali... how did you all know we were playing at the Hard Rock? oh ya Melvins flyering drew a 1000 people or 400 if you ask the Hard Rock. your guess is as good as ours, but who cares the whole thing was sure fun.
So today we fly to Bali,no idea if we are going to getto play but what the hell else are we going to do. Besides Smelly has a surf boat to catch and the rest of us need some relaxation no matter what.
Jakarta's alright, if you like standing water and Chaos.
Actually the show went off without a hitch, and it was huge!
All those cops were actually really cool,everyone stayed calm and there didn't appear to be any violence or confrontation, which is good cause the cops all had cane's for persuasion.
No female officers in Indo, to bad.
Jakarta Jakarta!!!!!!!
The space between the Stage and the Barracade was bigger than most of the clubs we had played on this tour.
The sound and lights were full Euro festival quality. But there was not even drinking water no food no nothing for the Audience what a mess
we are really sorry about all that.
Fucking Singapore!
Awesome Jon and RAZI RAZAK and everyone did a killer job and put on a great show.
420 bro and we'll never forget the Sinapore Green!
Kuala Lumpur where are you?
The show was awesome,nobody took any pictures.
We were not offended by the kid that got all emo about Hefe's headwear, it's all fun and games.
Manila was cool, we had some killer food Alex "Phat Boy Lim" took Good Care of us. we went on some adventures.
Okay we kinda got behind, flying crazy airlines and playing crazy shows for crazy promoters in crazy places everyday will tend to eat up a lot of spare time.
Boy did we Tie won on last night in Taiwan.
Taipei negative on that joke, idiot.
Taipei show was great, Consider the Meek was Great, Kev Lee and Saphire are Great. Golly everything is awesome.
We dig Taiwan
Out of China and on to Taipei
The show in China was pretty awesome, but more on that later.
If you ever fly out of Beijing, definitly allow the 3 hours recommended, it harder to get out of China than it is to get in.
Beijing China
Beijing, Press conference, first and only...
...ever.
What a Great Wall
Still in Seoul we are flying to Beijing Today, if we can get these photos through the censorship there will be some soon.
Bore Journal in real Time now.
so here we are in Seoul Korea, the show was super duper fun, first sell-out since 2002 they said.
Some said certain bands had the same amount of people but in Arenas, but were not naming any names here.
Korea Korea Korea, we didn't know how good we had it until we were gone.
Kevin, Kimmy and everyone else involved were totally awesome, and put on a fantastic show.
Japan tour drwing to a close. its been a lot of fun but were beat.
Tomorrow we fly to Seoul Korea
Fuckin Hell!
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Oh how we miss you when were gone.
Japans Punkspring Festival was a huge suckcess.
Nothing beats 200 punkbands in an aiport hanger,with the Audience 400 feet from the bands.
but seriously there were a bunch of great bands and everyone involved was super cool and we thank you all sincerely.
Still at Punkspring what a great party.
so many so nice people came.
Today was Ruglys Birthday.
pictures to follow...
Oh and We had a straight head to head drum-off for dressing rooms, who do ya think won?
Japan is sooooo fun, everyone is so polite and really easy to freak out. so that fun for us.
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Down under done and done.
So many great photos so little time.
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Last bit of New Zealand, not much left to say but thanks again to all down under.
New Zealand, New Zealand in a blink of eye you were gone.
Mike Sleeps on Airplanes, actually everyone does but Mike is bester at it than everyone but Limo.
see.
Last day in Australia,sooooooo sad!
its sure been fun.
Mike tore his leg in half at the Thunderdome in Perth, that sucked
New Zealand will be a bummer for him, so go easy, ya'll.
