Got up the next day, had breakfast in the hotel, then got the train to Tilburg. Tilburg is awesome – a small city with loads of small neat shops. ZXZW (the festival) was spread across 12-or-so venues throughout the day. I watched – a short set by Monotonix (awesome, nuts), Meneguar (awesome), Charlie Adler (not so great), Get Hustle (not my thing), Germlin (cool), Grinding Halt (awesome doom/screamo), Black Haven (ok), the locust (cool).

We played at 9pm to a really good, enthusiastic crowd, we had great sound and played amazingly. We then sold ALL of our cds and tapes and all adult size tshirts. A bit of a success.

The food at zxzw was nice too (ribs, chicken, veg etc), and we had a shared dressign room with unlimited beer (sweet).

We then stayed with a chap called Louis who was 37, had an amazing retro styled house, a pretty 21 yr old girlfriend (go louis!), an awesome wet-floor shower, awesome old records, and an awesome old car. He fed us and gave us drinks and the next day drove us to the train station in his old car blasting ‘ace of spades’ by motorhead. Awesome.

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