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This
was a long journey from New Orleans to Austin, where we stopped at a crappy
motel in the wild Texas…
You
should know that Mat, who books the motels, has a simple mission (this is
a TIC little intern game) : he has to choose the crappiest motel and those
where we can find the best "serial killer" spirit, just to increase
our chances of being murdered as we're going to the reception for some chocolate
bars in the middle of the night. Yeah. There is a time where you have to
know what you want to do : the typical French tour with crappy hotels and
smallest room you've ever seen, or the U.S Tour with 50$ twin room, free
Wi-Fi everywhere and XXXXX Size bed that you can only find at the Hilton
Hotel in Paris.
The
trip to Austin is awesome. Texas is an unknown country, it's so much more
than the country of Sue Ellen (stop drinking, Sue) and JR Ewing. Beautiful
landscapes and great ranches… we start to understand a bit more the
hardness of those guys who (except in Austin, the socialist city where they've
all voted for Obama) carry a gun and wear a Stetson only to go shopping,
who drive cars even bigger than elsewhere, and who say : "Obama? Don't
know that guy, he's not our president". Here it is, the "Real
Estate", the American Dream, the land of cowboys… it's here!
Austin,
however, is not like that. The show was great, we met again the fans from
the European rugby club, wearing the berets they bought at Sxsw Festival
in March. Austin is becoming a strong place for TIC, we can feel it…
like Chicago, a real rock'n'roll city !
But
now it's time for serious matters : THE TRIP of the U.S tour. We'll play
tomorrow in Tucson, Arizona : 15 hours drive through a desert land. We decide
to get some sleep and we wake up at 4:00 in the morning, so than we can
arrive right on time in Tucson. Here, that means one hour before going on
stage, a great American tradition that we learned very quickly. This epic
journey between Texas and Arizona will remains in our memories. No comments,
just look at these pictures.
Eventually,
we arrive right on time in Tucson, the perfect timing to eat a steak at
Waffle House. Never go to shower after a long trip like this, you must stay
nervous and tired, you must store the proteins of the steak, and you must
break everything on stage. Go to shower only after the show, otherwise you
risk to collapse. We've made that mistake before, so now we never go to
the hotel before the show, even if we look like morons.
We
met Marianne Dissard, a French singer based in Tucson. We feel good with
Marianne because she's from Bearn, in Gascony… we had the same education
when we were young. Go listen what Marianne does… for us, that's the
true elegant French music, like Edith Piaf before. That's a real woman,
not a trivial girl doing neo-realistic songs with an accordion. Vive la
France! Tatatata Tatatata, the day of glory is coming !
We
made a quick but well executed show. The Tucson Weekly has made a great
paper about us, and the guy is a big fan, it's cool. But hey, now it's time
to go to bed, we haven't sleep for 24 hours !
