Grovespaz wrote:

By the way, if you would get the chance to send those pictures you took of us to me that would be really cool Any other photo that night which might be fun to have is of course welcome as well, we took one picture which turned out to be quite crap.
guess what, I got my camera now with me (I dont have computer so use webcaf near me normally) and plugged it in and all then read instructions which say I need to download specific software from the CD that came with it (which I dont have with me...thought its same principle than with MP3, you just put the cord in and icon comes on screen...yeah I clearly dont know anything about technical stuff)...but I WILL send it to you at some point. the pic of you and your bro actually came out pretty well but pics of the band (only took few) came out blurry...however I did test my camera on lots of pics in Koln streets which some of them pretty good, mainly of graffiti.

been busy with work and other gigs but I finish my diary now. So the last day in Koln I climbed to the Cathedral..from Wiki:

"Visitors can climb 509 stone steps of the spiral staircase to a viewing platform about 98 m (322 ft) above the ground. The platform gives a scenic top view of the Rhine."

YES 509 FUKING steps!!! thats a LOT of steps even normally, when you are tired, sleep-deprivated and hangover...its MUTHAFUKING LOT...but I bravely did it, well mainly cos at some point I thought I must be at least halfway thru and theres no point of turning back. then I planned to spend some time up there to take pics but they closed it pretty soon after I got there...
Koln is very nice place to visit, would recommend it to anyone, its easily walkable (I actually LIKE walking, just not upwards hundreds of steps...) with the tourist map and theres lots of bars and restaurants. I didnt do any shopping cos didnt want to carry stuff back and was on budget but did see quite a lot of it.
Music Hall is good gig venue, quite big (not size of Brixton but bigger than Koko, for you London ppl), all in just one floor, no seating areas (same in Osnabruck) but if you need the toilet during gig its outside the venue in separate building so you better not to have too much beer during gig. which I didnt and it was actually priciest of everywhere I went to in Germany (generally beer cheaper than in London but it possibly CANT be more expensive). sound was good, I have started using earplugs I ordered which are specifically meant for gig goers and filter out music well so you hear everything and dont feel like "missing out" although when someone talks, even on stage, I usually take them off . I was glad they didnt use much smoke machine like in Osnabruck where half the time you didnt see the band from the smoke. same encore as night before, Dopes sounded all really tight, the slow bits especially great. there was people even crowdsurfing during the encore, luckily I wasnt right at the centrefront cos really didnt need more bruises from gigs haha...nobody quite believed me, I thought, when I said at work I was not at fight when they saw my black eye (see previous post) which actually started to get black under the eye as well. no pain in it at all just really looked like a punch.. war wounds haha

Aeris, when I see you next you get those stickers!

I will fuck your shit up