Todd McLaughlin

Erinn woke me up, after what felt like only a couple hours, with “Hey we have to go play a show.” I told her to just let me sleep until we had to leave to which she replied, “No, we go on stage in an hour.” I reluctantly rolled out of bed and put on my shoes. I don'...

I had no idea what was in store for me Saturday night. It was the one night I'd have a chance to go out and see the local nightlife because we had nowhere to drive the next morning. Our show at The Kollage started around ten and Erinn played first...

We made it in to Castrop-Rauxel at about 6:30 in the evening and were greeted by the owners of Bahia de Cochinos. They were a punk couple in their mid thirties with matching nose rings. It was a little strange to be in a Cuban theme bar in a small village near Dortmund...

Kassel was AMAZING! By far the best show of the tour. Holy crap. We played at a place called The Arm. It used to be a housing structure and during the second world war it got bombed by allied forces. It eventually got rebuilt into a bar / beer garden / art gallery / performance venue...

Everybody had told me great things about Berlin. It was described to me as a bigger San Francisco. It certainly looked different than the rest of Germany when we pulled in. It seems like a lot of it was built in the 70s or newer, yet it's still fairly run down. Graffiti is everywhere...

The trip to Frankfurt was a long one despite the relatively short distance traveled. I took the bus from the apartment in Copenhagen to the subway. Then the subway to the airport...

I had a few days to kill after the first show in Copenhagen. They weren't nearly as exciting as I had hoped. I'll refer to the great line and running joke from the surfing documentary The Endless Summer...

The show in Copenhagen went well. I arrived early with a couple friends and was happy to see fliers posted around everywhere with my name on it. That has been my biggest fear: to show up in a city in a foreign country expecting to play a show, and being greeted with only confusion...