We arrived at the venue in Hamburg around lunchtime, together with our support act Engel. Later on, also our second support act Turmion Kätilöt arrived. We went all the way to Hamburg with a temporary bus that just took us and the gear there. In Hamburg our "real" Nightliner bus waited, that will be our home for the next 4 weeks.

All gear from the temporary bus were loaded into the venue, and all personal stuff to the new bus. Now, this is a Pain tour, don't forget that. So when we were about to soundcheck we realised that two fatal items were missing and were still left in the other bus, who was now on his way back from Hamburg approaching Puttgarden... Are you surprised? I am not. One of the items was my special Ovation guitar that i use in "Have a drink on me". Next phase was total panic, phonecalls and upset people running around like headless chickens..

It's impossle to be surprised when it's a Pain tour, but it's totally okay to be upset. Finally soneone in the crew got hold of the driver who was on his way north again and told him to stop. A car went there and picked up the missing gear and we had it back on stage before our showtime. We didn't have it at soundcheck though.

Oh well, shit happens, and it went ok in the end anyway. The show went good and Hamburg treated us very well. As Johan is not joining us on this part of the tour, Andre Skaug is filling in. It feels like a 2007 backflash when he was touring with Pain, and it's pretty obvious that he still remembers the songs! :-)

Next stop is Berlin, see 'ya!


European part of the tour


My tourkit for this trip


Our Nightliner for this trip


Peter doing a interview in Hamburg