The up and coming band "Free Peace" ( www.myspace.com/fre3peace) asked me to play as the support act for their Italy tour! They are good friends of mine from University, so not only are we going to play some wicked music but also have a cracking time down at the heal of Italy around the Lecce region, near the city of Brindisi. The dates are:
Plus we will be busking on the streets of Brindisi during the day to do some valuable promotion for the evening gigs and to sell some albums. Distributing posters, flyers, talking to people, letting them know about who we are and the events that are happening.7 Aug 2009 20:00 San Tiago San Giovanni 9 Aug 2009 20:00 Contiero Gallipoli 11 Aug 2009 20:00 Pura vida San Gionvanni 12 Aug 2009 20:00 Abbey Road San Giovanni 14 Aug 2009 20:00 Gold Suite San Giovanni 15 Aug 2009 20:00 Robinsons Club Marina Di Ugento 16 Aug 2009 20:00 Lido L’ombra San Giovanni 17 Aug 2009 20:00 Solatio
Sunday, 2 August 2009
Half A Year (Going On Tour to Italy!)
So for the past couple days I have been preparing many things, in order to have everything I need when I am in Italy. Besides bringing my guitar, passport, sun screen and a couple of jonnies (remember that abortion is still illegal in Italy!), the most important and time consuming thing was that I want to sell some Demo CDs down there. My time is limited and the cost of production for small quantities is expensive when you ask a professional. So I've had to make 100 handcrafted album covers and printed CDs. So I went down to the nearest Virgin Megastore bought some 170g photo paper, 100 blank Cds, Microsoft Application CD stickers, quick drying glue and a cutter. Then the tricky part is to get the layout, printing, folding and gluing of the Cd covers right. It's a very repetitive job, so a fresh beer can always help.
I am leaving for Florence (Firenze) tomorrow at 6 am, then the only thing I know is I need to be at the Brindisi airport at 8:10 am on the 5th of August meet up with the rest of the band. So in between those times and train travels, I will be visiting Perugia, Rome and Napoli and eating lots of spaghetti, Ice cream and dried meats.
I will be photo and video documenting all of my trip, in order to share my travels with you.
Peace!
Half A Year (Business Card)
Patrick Bateman would of been envious by my freshly printed, high quality 200g/m2 5760 dpi resolution paper, ORC A Extended font, Epson ink, hand written signature with custom sky gray background business card. Now I am going to go chop up some chicken and bring back some videos. "That's Bone".
This next clip is from the legendary American Psycho "Business Card" scene wherein several business executives egos clash as they compare the engraving, texture, typeface and coloring of their cards.