Pictures

Well we have had A LOT to do in school lately and I don't know if anyone reads this blog any longer, BUT for those who does, head over to our facebook page to see all of the pictures from the trip! Click here to go to the page!

Moscow airport

Siting on the floor at Moscow airport now. We have a transit here for 15 hours. An advice to everyone, never fly to Russia. The airport is disaster in every single way. It took us 2-3 hours to get in to the terminal after landing. It was like 300-400 people in a line to a single pass control boot and angry Russians everywhere. We are hanging on the airport with a Swedish guy called Magnus who are kind enough to let us borrow his computer!

Last night we played our last show at Music Lounge Burn, a small cafe with instruments, drunk Japanese men who love to play covers and a bar with nama beer. It was a perfect ending for the trip! After the gig we all slept at Thomas place and said goodbye this morning. It was really emotional and we are going to miss Thomas so much! I'm to tired to write more right now. Check in in a few days for a LOT of pictures from the tour! Bye! /Thomas

Skyscraper district and gigs!

So yesterday we were off gigs and we took the time to go see the Skyscraper district and The Goverment Building in Shinjuku. The weather was as worse as it could possibly be, the rain was pouring down and the temperature was low but it didn't stopped us! After some confusion around the blocks we found The Government building and went up in it. It was really cool looking and around 250 meters above the sea, the view from the top wasn't the best due to the conditions of the weather but it was cool anyway!

This Wednesday we had a gig at Shibuya Cyclone which was great! We were a bit exhausted before the gig and under it too, but it turned out great anyway! The audience really liked it and we sold some t-shirts after the gig so it was a good night!

Now we are sitting in a wired cafe in Shibuya waiting to go to soundcheck at Shibuya Yaneura and we are psyched!! It is going to be our last gig in a club here in Tokyo and we will give it all!

So take care folks and stay tuned..

/Anton

From Shinjuku

Hey folks, me and Anton is sitting at a wired cafe in the middle of Shinjuku. The rain has been pouring down all day and our plan to meet up with Lilja failed since he has been struck with the fever and lost his voice. We are once again putting our hope on the Japanese miracle medicine, but from my experiences last week I've got a lot of faith in the Japanese pharmacies and I believe there will be no problems. We will, once again, pull of a great show at Cyclone, Shibuya, tomorrow night.

We've spent the day walking in and out and up and down in huge shopping stores, found a bowling alley in one of them. Thomas beat us both with marginal, that bastard :/ It was a lot of fun though.

Take care!
/David

At Thomas place in Nishiojima

Just eaten some indian food and now we are watching Total Recall staring Arnold. Last night we visited some clubs in Shibuya and sang karaoke. Great night! Today we woke up a bit late and hurried downtown to visit an old beautiful park and after that we took the sub to Thomas place in Nishiojima. He lives in a small fresh apartment, really cosy! Less writing more pictures, here are some pictures from our gigs here in Tokyo!

O Nest and Moonstep!

Sitting at the office behind the bar at Moonstep now. The show yesterday at O Nest was amazing! We got to write some autographs and take pictures with new fans, great! Todays gig at Moonstep was nice aswell. Small crowd but a good gig. Tomorrow is our first day in Tokyo without a gig, looking forward to it! We are going to go downtown and do some shopping! Starting to love Tokyo more and more! Everyone is so nice and you cant imagine how MUCH there is of everything! Now we are of to visit some student pubs and see how its like! Until next time, BYE!

Tokyo!

Okay finally we got around to write in the blog! We are in Tokyo! We had a gig at a small club called Showboat a few hours ago and it was awesome! Everyone liked the music and we got the whole show on DVD after the gig.

We live in the smallest hostel you can imagine! We are going to film a short "cribs" video so you can understand how small it is.

Tokyo is great by the way! David stomach had a bad time today though. He threw up on the train but everyone, I mean EVERYONE started to help us deal with it. People around us gave us thousands of napkins and helped us wipe it up from the floor. Japanese people are the kindest there is! David is feeling better now by the way after getting some magical medicine by an old Japanese man in a drug store.

Now we are of to get some sleep and tomorrow we play a show at "O Nest" which is supposed to be a pretty popular club. I could write a lot more but this is enough for now I think. Sayonara!

Sending you a texty text...

Just arrived at Arlanda after 6 hours on a bus, with only a short 15 minute stop in Stockholm. Now it's close! The flight leaves tomorrow at 10.05. We have the world's smallest hotel room with only two beds and Anton and Thomas are going to have an interesting night... Sleep tight lads!

Last day in Sweden

Yesterday we all attended David's music convention in Skara. It was really nice! A lot of great bands playing and interesting people. Later we drank some beer, watched 20 min of football and checked out a local club.

Now were just finished packing and are of to the last rehearsal in Sweden. Today we take a bus to Stockholm and check in to our hotel at Arlanda airport. Hopefully we can post some pictures here later on the trip. Check in soon again!

Soon

The packing has begun! There's cloth all around my apartment and the guitar in the middle. Good times! Found the charger to my camer yesterday so now I'm going to take A LOT of pictures!


Earlie tomorrow me and Anton will take a bus from Gothenburg to Skara to met up with David. Can't wait to start the trip!

PS. The new EP is on it's way to Spotify. It's a long way there, but hopefully it will reach it's destination about the time we get home!

Antons new tattoo

Here is my(Anton) new tattoo! I am so stoked about how it turned out and i couldn't be more happy! It was made by Marcus on funnyfarmtattoo in Skövde. Check him and his amazing work out at: http://www.funnyfarmtattoo.se/

And now it's only ten days until we leave for Japan! GAAAAAAAAH!!

/Anton

Links for the people!

Here are link to the places we are going to play!

Showboat
http://www.showboat.co.jp/others/map.html

O Nest
http://shibuya-o.com/accessmap/

Moonstep
http://www.livehouse-wall.com/moon/contents/access.html

Shibuya Cyclone
http://www.cyclone1997.com/home.html

Shibuya Yaneura
http://shibuya-yaneura.com/

Music Lounge Burn
http://rata.jp/out/oojima-burn.html


We boked bus and hotel in Stockholm yesterday. Not many things left to do now!

Interview + dates

Warm day in Gothenburg today! Love it! We did a interview for a small local newspaper yesterday. Read it next week if you live in Partille.

The dates are set for the tour! Here is the list:

April 14 - Showboat, Koenji
April 15 - Onest, Shibuya
April 16 - Moonstep, Nakano
April 21 - Cyclone, Shibuya
April 23 - Yaneura, Shibuya
April 24 - Music Lounge Burn, Nishojima

So psyched about this right now! Don't forget to listen to our new song on myspace!

On the radio

Just heard a few seconds of our new songs on the radio in a commercial for Thomas school. First time I've heard our music on the radio, strange feeling, love it.

Oh, and we've got a place to sleep during our time in Tokyo now, don't know where but according to Lilja it's "within crawling distance to several clubs", sounds fine to me.

Take care!
/David

Japanese is funny

Our inbox is filling up with mails in japanese. Love it! And they are so funny to translate with Google Translate! Think we have another show booked for the 14th now but not sure yet. Have a great saturday you all!

Got a place for us to stay?

I'm currently talking to Thomas who's trying to find a place for us to stay during our time in Tokyo but it seems like most places are booked already. Although I know it will solve it self in one way or another it would've been nice to have one less thing to worry about so if anyone is sitting on a great tip on a nice hostel/hotel we'd be very happy to hear from you!

And by the way, I hope you've all heard Two Door Cinema Club?

Take care!
/David

First tour dates

Here are the first confirmed dates for the tour!

April 15 - Onest, Shibuya
April 16 - Moon Step, Nakano
April 23 - Yaneura, Shibuya

More coming up!

Sooo this is what's happened!

Finally the blog is up and running. We are going to write here as often as possible throughout this whole adventure! For those who don't already know it: this blog is about Swedish band Kings Avenue doing a Japan Tour during the 12th-25th of April, 2010.

So where are we right now? We have bought flight tickets to Japan and we leave Sweden on the 12th of april. We have booked about 5 shows in Tokyo up until now and more are added as I write. A list with dates and venues is coming later when we know more.

David talked to Lilja through Skype today about more shows and where we will sleep during our visit. Looks like it's going to be a hostel of some sort but I'm not really sure yet. That's it for now! We'll be back with more info soon! :)