We just arrived in Germany from spending four amazing nights in Paris with our French family Yes S Club! We stayed at their apartments in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. As we were told and as we totally believe, though we obviously haven't seen all of Paris, it is the nicest area to be in Paris. Two of the venues we played, 114 and L'international were located in this area around Rue Oberkampf (yep the name is German). For females it is a good place to be, as next to all the good bars, clubs and restaurants, a couple of fantastic women-clothing shops are located close to it - luckily our friends from Paris knew where to find the best to spent my fees on.
Nils fell in love with the French style of driving and didn't mind to push cars away to arrange a parking-place. No wonder when you are really lucky to find a place to park your car in less than half an hour driving around in the streets. But we had too much stuff to use the metro as our new live set-up includes two stand-toms.
A really tough challenge was to find a parking-space at Gare du Nord, where our show on Saturday night took place at an fantastic private apartment just opposite of the train-station. During sound-check we met the wife of Carlos, the famous French terrorist, who is living in the same house and was telling us how to set-up a bass-box so it doesn't affect the neighbours. You wouldn't find a place like this, with such a nice ceiling and a fire-place, to set up a party for 80 people with two live concerts till six in the morning in Germany I bet. And I am talking about a really wild party.
Even our off-day on Sunday was very enjoyable, spending the night at Le Kitch, but the three shows totally blew us away. We experienced so much love, plenty of people shouting "Zugabe" (the German word for encore) and met plenty of new fans and friends. We never imagined so many people to show up on a Monday night and party like a weekend. As we were told it is not usual to be like this, so we felt very honoured and welcome. We had a last beer with our friends from Yes S Club in typical French Bar and were very sad knowing we had to leave the next day, when we went to bed at 5am on Monday morning.
Maybe it is because Feliks will miss his favourite food, the cheese, or we miss the beautiful buildings and the flair of the city, but I think the real reason we want to be back in Paris right now is, that we miss the talks, the party and the long drives (if you want to call the inner-city traffic-jams "driving") with our friends of Yes S Club and all their fantastic friends. A bientôt et merci!
