The tour has finished and this is the final entry about our European tour. The last three shows were in Italy, with the last show being in Milan and the next day we all went our seperate ways for our individual travels. Tom first departed by train to Berlin, Sean, Dave & Jesse flew out to London and I got dropped off in Venice which is where I am writing this from.

The final three shows in Italy were amazing. We met some really great people in Lodi, we played to about 200+ people at STRANGE FEAR’s CD Launch in Modena and we finished off the tour with our great new friends FAIR DO’s and 50/50 in Milan. Two of the shows in Italy were organised by Nick from a great band called THE MEMORY. We never would have got out of a tight situation if it wasn’t for him. Also make sure you check out STRANGE FEAR, for fans of fast, heavy hardcore.

In total we played 21 shows over 30 days, drove about 7000km and made some friends that will last a life time. We played shows to 30 people, we played shows to 300 people. We played in bars, clubs, studios, abandoned buildings, cellars, squats and youth centers. We slept in the houses/apartments of very nice people, with local families, in venues, in hostels, on the hardest of floors, coldest of rooms, studio in the middle of nowhere, squats and in the van. We visited one million petrol stations. We ate like kings and we went days on end without food. All in all we had one amazing time.

It was hard finishing the tour and saying goodbye as we have got so used to being on the road, living with each other and spending every moment together. Especially saying goodbye to certain people a long the way and never knowing if we will see them again.

On this tour we experienced massive high’s and the lowest low’s and at the end of the day, no matter what the feeling was, it was all worth it. The tour nearly fell to pieces because of our original tour promoter, however from all the help of the lovely people of Europe we were able to make this tour work.

We are happy to say that we are going to try our absolute hardest to get back to Europe in the next year or so. We have already had promoters offer to book us tours so we hope we get to have this experience again. If there are any promoters or record labels that are interested in helping us out, please contact me, Matt (Footy) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Finally, I would like to take the time out to thank everyone individually who helped us in any way on our travels. Full list of people below:

First and foremost, our friend forever and driver on this tour, Uros (Slovenia)

The promoters and people to played a role in organising shows:
Marco & Sebastian (Croatia)
Ivan & Goran (Croatia)
Milosh (Serbia)
Sil (Hungary)
Andrew (Slovakia)
Radek (Czech Republic)
Glenn (Germany)
Ben (Germany)
Frank (Germany)
Flo (Germany)
Jorritt (Netherlands)
Peter (Netherlands)
Pieter (Netherlands)
Ari (Belgium)
Bert (Belgium)
Flo (France)
Roberto, Antonio & Ste (Italy)
Nick (Italy)
Andrea (Italy)

People’s places we stayed at and helped with accommodation:
Luka, Damir & Busco (Slovenia)
Radule & Nebojsha (Novi Sad)
All the Families in Serbia
Kat (Czech Republic)
Andrew (Czech Republic)
Roschelle (Netherlands)
Daan (Belgium)
Piere (France)
Strange Fear’s Jam room (Italy)
Nicola (Italy)
All the venues, studios and squats

All the bands we played with:
The Upsessions (Netherlands)
Pasi (Croatia)
Unison (Serbia)
Brivido (Croatia)
Dishumanity (Serbia)
Neke Face (Serbia)
Szuksegallapot (Hungary)
Cannonball (Hungary)
Good Reason (Slovakia)
Erotic Devices (Germany)
Billy The kid (Costa Rica)
Before I Forsake (Germany)
From This Day On (Germany)
Some Are More Equal (Germany)
Off With Their Heads (USA)
Poor Richard (Netherlands)
No Matching Socks (Netherlands)
A Hero Build (Belgium)
Altitude (Belgium)
Drunktank (Netherlands)
Fair Do’s (UK)
50/50 (Netherlands)
Poor Excuse (Belgium)
New Pokerface (Netherlands)
Nowadayz (France)
Poor of The Letter (France)
The Ackees (Italy)
Strange Fear (Itay)
The Memory (Italy)
Attitude (Italy)
X-State Ride (Italy)
No More Escape (Italy)
Turn against (Italy)
Lubrification (Italy)
Filth In My Garage (Italy)
Seesaw (Italy)

Finally, to all our new friends we made a long the way. We deeply apologise if we missed anyone. As you can see this is a big list and it is very easy to miss at least one person. If you did help us in any way, you know who you are and we thank you.

This is us signing off on our first European tour. Until next tour…

Footy

-Stolen Youth