Rock 'n' Roses (sequel to found again)

The first month is going by excruciatingly slow. Ricky and I message all day long then either Skype or call each other at night. We have been doing this since the start of tour. Ricky and his band have started the process of making their new album and are currently in pre – production. I couldn’t wait to hear it. We are now in Germany to play our next show then after tonight we fly straight out to Milan, Italy to play our next show after that we have a few days off in Italy which I will be so glad to have. I love playing the sows and everything but it can get very tiring. Last time we toured Europe, we toured for six months and I swear it was the most exhausting thing I’ve ever done. We are all jetlagged so bad it’s unreal. Once we got to the hotel we all passed out but unfortunately had to get up again three hours later to play the show. We were now doing sound check for tonight although the technicians were starting to get really pissed off with us because we were messing about. Roxie was playing that weird western tune on her guitar out of tune and we were all laughing really hard, in fact lily was laughing so hard that she tripped and fell on her face but still continued to laugh on the ground. We were having fun until the technician guy shouted at us. “Can you please just fucking do your job and play it properly!” he shouted “Jesus man calm down! Don’t cream your panties dude! We’re only having a laugh!” Feria replied. He rolled his eyes and we played it properly this time. After sound check we went to go get something to eat at a diner down the street. Later that night we were ready and waiting to go on stage. One by one we all went on. Lily with her drums first starting the song off, Feria was next with her guitar playing lead, Roxie was next with her guitar playing rhythm, and then it was Taylor with her bass. I could hear the crowd screaming at the top of their lungs as the adrenaline was pumping through my body. I ran out on stage with my microphone and began singing the song. Germany was definitely one of my favourite places to play in the world. The crowds were some of the best I’ve ever seen. About halfway through our set a giant mosh pit started to form in the centre. The atmosphere was fantastic. By the time we were finished the set the crowd was sweating and still completely pumped. We thanked them for supporting us and coming out tonight and walked off stage. Our manager handed us towels, while heard “Encore! Encore! Encore!” from the audience “hey guys let’s play two more songs for them” I said. They all agreed and we ran back on stage to which they screamed at and jumped up and down. “okay guys since you guys were a fantastic audience to play for, we’re going to play two new songs from our new album which hasn’t been released yet” I said and they screamed at me again. Thank god I had my in – ears in. I looked side stage to see our manager telling me to stop and not to play the songs but I still wanted to do it for them. I looked back at the band to see if they agreed and gave the thumbs up to play them. “Okay guys we’re going to start off with a kind of slow one first then we’ll leave the best for last. This one is called Relapse!” I said as Roxie began her opening guitar riff. I sang relapse and seen a few people in the audience crying. It was strange how a song that we are playing for the first time, that no one has heard yet, can still make that emotion rise within the audience already but I suppose that’s a good thing too. We thanked the audience and ran off stage again. We were drying the sweat off ourselves when Michelle, our manager, came storming over to where I was standing talking to our support band, Stick To Your Guns. “What were you thinking?! You aren’t supposed to play the new songs off the new album yet!!” she said getting up in my face, she was nearly touching my nose “okay for one, get the fuck out of my face Michelle” I said and she backed up “and second if we want to play a song or two off our new album then we’re going to as a treat for the audience” I said “no you're not” she said “we just did! And watch me Michelle” I said and walked away. She was starting to piss me off this past while back, acting like she owns us, like telling us when we can eat and shower. If she keeps treating us like shit on her shoes I think I'm going to end up pushing her off the next bridge our bus goes across. We all walked back to the hotel and showered before getting packed for the airport again. After we were all showered and packed, we had to go to the airport at three in the morning but we all slept in the plane. Italy here we come! We arrived in Italy at about five and arrived at our hotel at about eight in the morning and slept for a while. The show that night was basically the same as last night except for that one person standing in the middle of the crowd staring right back at me. He stood still and his long tattooed arms crossed over his chest. I had to remind myself to continue singing the song. Once the show was over, I was talking to our support band again about the show tonight and when I turned to leave there he was again in the same guarded position he was in when he was standing in the audience. I stared back in shock but in anger too “Andy what the fuck are you doing here?!”

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