Immaculate Machine

We have just finished a quick 10-day tour of Europe, which was fun.  We drove so much that we left imprint in the van seats.  In a very short time we played everywhere from Italy to France to Czech Republic.  We met some great people and played a few interesting venues.  Of course every day included ogling some kind of ancient building or other.  We Canadians find it hard to fathom how anything can be older than a hundred years.

In Hamburg, someone in the audience told us after our show that she had previously lived in the apartment the Beatles lived in the 60s.  Because she sensed our enthusiasm, she urged us to go check it out and gave us the address.  She told us to ask for Karl, who she may or may not have known.  The next morning we rang a very very confused Karl’s doorbell.  I told him very slowly in English and broken German that we were Canadian tourists and he eventually let us in.  We went into the apartment and he said, did you know the Beatles used to live here?  I said, yes that is why we came.  He said, you may now feel the vibrations.   Apparently it’s not really advertised anywhere so you need some real inside information, which is why this doesn’t happen to Karl more often.  The last person to ask to come in was the guitarist for Iron Maiden!

Our German has improved to about a 3-year old level, which makes it easy to ask for bathrooms and food at least.  Slowly but surely, we are determined to massacre every language we possibly can.  It was awesome to get to Paris, where we could actually communicate!  And with a day off too.  We are so full of baguette and wine, you don’t even know.

Now we are in the UK, and looking forward to a half dozen shows here as well as one of our close friends’ marriage to a Scottish guy.  Proper traditional Scottish wedding, so if you ever wanted to see Immaculate Machine in kilts, just stay tuned for photos.  Please pass along the facebook events to anyone in the UK who might be interested – thanks!!!

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