U Turns

These Polish drivers think nothing of doing U Turns on their motorways

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Festive Greetings and A Happy New Year

Well it's good to be home after 7 months on the road Touring with The Rolling Stones, The Police and Enrique. The last couple of weeks we have been to York and Cambridge ( Xmas shopping and University interviews for one of the boys!)

The Old Bill AKA The Police

Well the Police tour kind of fizzled out in the the end with cancelled gigs and we ended up at Cardiff's millennium Stadium for the last gig that the genny's were needed. After the show we went to Tilbury docks and put them on a container ship heading to South America were Pablo and Pedro will be hauling them around to some, save the tree concert in the amazon jungle!

Doubledrivemania

We are into the second week of our double driving extravaganza, we set off from Munich, drove to Lisbon then to Barcelona, onto Paris and now we are in Turin. Tonight after the show we head for Croke Park Dublin!, for some of the trucks its then onto Antwerp. Last Friday saw us arriving in Paris around the late afternoon and it was raining, the roads were grid locked and to drive across Paris took about three hours. There also must of been a big circus in town because there were many clowns heading for work!

MUNCHEN

Well it's a glorious day in Munich today and the sun has shone on the load in for Saturdays show. Since Amsterdam we headed for Switzerland and did a show in Geneva then the production trucks went to Vienna to do an arena show, the gennies went to Munich. The October Fest starts tomorrow but we will not be partaking as we have to double drive to Lisbon after the gig and we have only two days to do it in!

HAMBURG & AMSTERDAM

After the Twickenham shows we drove to Hamburg and the AOL Arena or to be up to date the Nordbank Arena, the home of Hamburg SV football club. After Hamburg it was down the road to Amsterdam and the Ajax Arena.

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Twickenham

After Stockholm Gennyworld went to Aarhus in Denmark and then on to Twickenham. The generators were not needed at the NIA in Birmingham and will be not used at the indoor arena shows on this tour.

Summer Photo's

Here are a few more pics that were taken on the recent Stones tour.

STOCKHOLM SWEDEN

Well here we are at the biggest golf ball in the world or as it is known locally "The Globen Arena" This is the start of of the European leg of the Police Tour.

Slane Castle Ireland.

A top of the morning to you all!! Well we made it to Slane and the last concert gennyworld will be doing on the Bigger Bang Tour but don't fret after a service we are off to Stockholm to start The Police Tour, more posts coming soon! ( nice photo of Lord Syd Of Slane)

HAMBURG

Well here we are at the AOL arena in Hamburg on the day of the show and the day after, the end of tour Red Steel Crew party, it's sore heads all round for many! After the Dusseldorf show it was a relatively short drive up to Hamburg and after the show tonight it is off to Slane Castle, Ireland for the final outdoor show of this tour!

Dusseldorf

Well we are back in the Fatherland home of the world famous german sausage. If there was a world cup for sausages Germany would most probably hold the most titles with Cumbria right there behind them!

Lausanne Switzerland

We drove from Oslo to Lausanne to do a gig, did it, and now we are in Dusseldorf.

OSLO NORWAY

We had the good fortune of having the whole of the day to drive from Copenhagen to Oslo. So I took advantage of the time to do a bit of "sightseeing" of the swedish countryside.

COPENHAGEN

The drive from Gothenburg to Copenhagen was a short 4 hours interrupted by the Helsinborg to Helsingor ferry. We arrived at the Parken stadium about 6am in the morning and started the load in immediately.

ACROSS THE BALTIC TO SWEDEN

Before our drive to Naantali to catch the Kapelskar ferry, I was privileged to witness the old traditional Finnish pastime of finding a big rock and sitting on it and staring into space

We drove non-stop apart for the legal 45min.break from Kapelskar to Gothenburg, arriving around midnight ready for a 2 am load in on show day! The weather was atrocious with the rain lashing down onto the Ullevi Stadium but the crew pulled out all the stops and by mid-day it was all up and running and as a bonus the sun came out to give us a pleasant end to the day and concert.