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European Tour Diary

Feb 21st - Just come off stage in Bochum

Tonights show was fucking ace, we had a great time it was wild as fuck, EVERYTHING that can go wrong 'technically' in a show went wrong, such as snare drums breaking, amps breaking, guitars breaking and leads breaking haha!! I wouldn't have been surprised if a fucking plane crashed on stage or a JCB tractor decided to roll on and destroy the stage at some point, it was one of those nights BUT we cracked on and all had a great time, probably our fav night of the tour so far!! great crowd too!! the set ran great (we managed to 'fix' things mid song)

....Oh yeah, Rob Randell set the fire alarm off in the building about 5 mins before Thunder came on stage (we found that quite funny)

Thunder are on stage right now and sounding great!! Not sure the plan for tonight, we might stick around for a while I think then move onto the next show at some point..

anyway, thats all for now.

(2.1 to the reds - good shit)

RIVERSX

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Feb 21st - Backstage at Matrix, Bochum

The last few days have been some of the best I can remember. Berlin is now one of my favourite cities and holds some great memories. We played at Kato on the 18th which was a cool little place under a train track.....good vibe in there and it sounded nice and loud. It was Mark's (Thunder's Tech) birthday so after the show the guys gave him his present we ventured off into the city. We went to some great bars and met some awesome people from all over the world. A special thanks (and apology) has gotta be given to the nice bar-girl that took me in after getting dettached from the pack, and for one by one as everyone found me, let us take over her bar.....we had fun.

We made it back to the bus just after sunrise and decided to go sightseeing. We were parked right next to the Berlin wall so checked it out, it was a sobering experience. There's a photo of it up in our gallery. A cool touch was out of all the thousands of writings on it Robbie stopped right next to one that read "Such Is Life".

That night we went to a punk bar to check out a band then set off for Hannover.

We had "pig" at a petrol station.

Hannover was cool, friendly crowd and a good stage. (Hi to the two women from Leicester). We were in a quiet area so after the gig we set off for Bochum to catch the end of the club there. Everyone was pretty fucked so MrRob, Pedro and I went in for a couple of drinks to wind down to some German industrial metal.

Thunder are soundchecking now so I'm gonna go get my stuff together.

I'll finish up later....

Sid

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Day 3 - Feb 18th – services outside Berlin

..Last nights show was fucking ace, a step up from the first show in Belgium I think! same set as we played in Belgium which is working really well for us at the moment..Great crowd aswell, its nice to see a few Heaven's Basement T shirts in the audience! (also, thanks to Wendy for the beers, Babs for the drum stick sock!) You always know its a good show when everyone comes back into the dressing room pouring in sweat and totally fucked after the set.

We set off to Berlin after the show last night, it's a 9 hour drive so Rob and Pete cracked on through the night (excellent work lads!) We are just outside Berlin at the moment, we can't wait for our first ever gig in Germany tonight, the Kato is going to get fucking destroyed from us and the guys in Thunder..we have a day off tomorrow so also looking forward to havin a few beers with the guys tonight!!

..that's pretty much it for now, time to go find a shower! remember to keep a check on bitchinrockphotos.com for updates and live photos each day or so.

Rivers X

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17th feb

Day two!........Uden in Holland. Last nights show in Belgium was a blinder! To be honest, it couldn't really have gone any better for the first night of the tour. Great crowd, great sound, great lights. We were only supposed to play for half an hour but the set ran to 38 minutes, so we were told. The Thunder guys and crew are really cool though, they said we can go on a little earlier and play for longer if we want. This is the set we played.......

Tear Your Heart Out
Can't Let Go
Misunderstood
10 Minutes
Reign On My Parade
Mirrors
Executioners Day

The plan is to mix it up a bit every night and play different songs if we can (saying that, it did go pretty well so i reckon we'll do the same set tonight again and see how it goes). After we played we went and hung out with Pete and Mr. Rob at the merch stand and had a few drinks (Hoegarden was the order of the day!). We met loads of cool people and there was also quite a few familiar faces that we know from previous shows in the UK. It was good to see Wendy and Pascal again who we met on the tour with Wired Desire last december. Thankyou for my gift Pascal, i laughed for hours and then slept like a tree trunk! ;-)

After Thunder had played we went and chilled with them in their dressing room for a while, Ben was making us cocktails which went down a treat! We stayed at the venue for a couple of hours (they don't kick everyone out as soon as the gig has finished like they do in the UK which is a much better way of doing things!)....we left about 1ish i think and drove straight to tonights venue.....All in all, it was a pretty sweet first night, I can't wait to get onstage later!

One thing i noticed about Belgium is that all the toilets seem to be unisex, well the ones i went to anyway. Just an observation.....I'm getting called for soundcheck now so will report back tomorrow!

De Ballen

Jonny

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16th Feb

Current mood:Continental

First day of the tour.......we're in Vosselaar in Belguim today. We arrived here yesterday morning about 11 o'clock after travelling straight from ilkeston on saturday night (well done Mr. Rob and Pete!). There didn't seem to be much going on in the town so we just spent the whole day moving from bar to bar trying to find some life. We had drinks in various Belgian bars sampling the different beers and chatting to the locals (luckily everybody we met seemed pretty fluent in english). We ended the night at an irish bar in the square listening to Josh Homme, drinking guinness, smoking cigars and watching the united v derby game.........well we did stop off in one more bar on the way back to the bus but that was only because we were lost and thought another drink might help our sense of direction!

We're at the venue now setting up, getting ready for soundcheck. It's cool to see the thunder lads again, i definitely think this tour is going to be a great one, we've got a great set to play and can't wait to get up onstage and see what the european rock fans think of us. Over and out for now, we'll update you all again tomorrow and let you know how the first night went.

Tot ziens

Jonny
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

***New song uploaded.......'Can't Let Go'***

Hey guys, check out the jukebox and get your earoles round the new one........

HB x

Saturday, December 13, 2008

The countdown is coming..............

Hey everyone,

How's it going? It's been a while since we last updated you all with a new song and blog so here it is!....anyone who has been to a gig in the past two months or so might recognize the song, its called 'No Pity' and has become one of our favorite songs to play live - enjoy!

We're having a day off today from our UK headline tour, just chilling out with a few beers and preparing for our last three gigs of 2008. It's been a fantastic year for us it's hard to know where to start!....by the time the tour ends on wednesday in London we will have played 96 shows since our debut show at the Sawyers in Kettering on April 5th! Those 96 shows for us will equal a good few thousand miles in travel, too many beers and not enough food (as many of you tell us!). We've been through enough guitar and bass strings to open a music store, a few trees worths of drum sticks and now have slightly more damaged ear drums! Highlights of the year include opening for Bon Jovi, the Thunder tour, our short but crazy trip to spain, playing the Bloodstock and Hard Rock Hell festivals aswell as the many headline club shows we've played up and down the country!

The current headline tour has been going great, all the venues are fucking freezing but we have really enjoyed being back in the clubs right on the back of the Thunder UK tour. Thanks to everyone who has come out to a show on this tour! We're having a killer time with our touring pals Wired Desire from sunny Glasgow, its a shame we only have 3 shows left! We have a few Englishman, a Welshman and a bunch of Scotsmen on the tour so if anyone knows an Irishman who wants to come along on the remaining dates then send them our way so we can complete the joke:).....also if anyone has missed a show on this tour just keep an eye out for HB and WD members at your local foam party ;).......don't forget our last 3 dates are at the Sheffield Corporation on 14th Dec, Birmingham Dragon Bar on 15th Dec and finally the Camden Barfly on the 17th Dec - hope to see you there!!

We got to give a special mention about the Thunder tour, without doubt one of highlights of the year! We were well pleased with the response and feedback we had from all the Thunder fans on the dates (so thanks to you all!) We collected lots of film footage from the tour so hopefully we'll be able to put something together for you in the near future! There are some great photos from the recent shows here www.bitchinrockphotos.com a massive thanks to Donna, Big Pete and the King of the road Mr. Rob (Cheers for all your help mate!)

We couldn't have wished for a better 2008, it blows our mind that its only a year ago since Heaven's Basement was born at Richies apartment and that our first show was only eight months ago!

We have exciting plans for 2009, we'll be heading to Italy for a tour in january which will be followed by a european tour as support to Thunder starting on the 16th Febuary. We will be visiting Germany, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland for the first time so we are really looking forward to it! We'll also be heading into the studio for some writing sessions on our return so look out for us hitting the road again in the UK from april onwards armed with new material and a new live show!

For those of you that still haven't got a copy of our EP you can click the link below and get one sent straight to your door........tshirts are also available from the same link....

http://www.backstreet-merch.com/bands/hvnbt/

!2009 Purerawk Awards!

We are also delighted to have been nominated in 5 categories for the 2009 Purerawk awards, you can vote for us at the link below...... http://www.purerawk.co.uk/awards/



Thanks to everyone who has supported us through 2008, we have had some of the best times of our lives, we have played alongside some great bands, met lots of new friends and caught up with many old friends, we can't fucking wait to get stuck in again after the new year, apparently 2009 is the year of the Ox but we will have something to say about that..!!

Expect another new song to be uploaded as a xmas present for you all in the next week or so........have a great one!

Richie, Sid, Jonny, Rob, Chris
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Pure Rawk Awards + Street Team members wanted

Hey everyone,

If you feel like it, we'd really appreciate any votes you'd like to give us in the upcoming PureRawk awards!

See the link below to submit votes:

http://www.purerawk.co.uk/awards/main.html

Street Team members wanted to flyer Nov. shows!

We are looking for some friends to help promote our December UK tour at all our November shows by handing out flyers etc..

If you're coming to any of the shows in November and would be interested in helping out please email streetteam@heavensbasement.com with your name and which gig you plan on attending, we will then get back to you with the details.

Thanks alot to everyone who has emailed already!

Here are all the November dates which we are looking for people to help at,

8 Nov 2008 The Chester Bells - Chester
14 Nov 2008 The Met Lounge - Peterborough
15 Nov 2008 Stafford Uni - Stafford
16 Nov 2008 The Yardbirds - Grimsby
21 Nov 2008 Exeter University w/Thunder
22 Nov 2008 Manchester Academy 1 w/Thunder
23 Nov 2008 Sheffield City Hall w/Thunder
25 Nov 2008 Glasgow Academy w/Thunder
26 Nov 2008 Newcastle City Hall w/Thunder
27 Nov 2008 Wolverhampton Civic Hall w/Thunder
29 Nov 2008 Cambridge Corn Exchange w/Thunder
30 Nov 2008 London Astoria w/Thunder


Thanks!
Heaven's Basement

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

There’s never been a better time..........

Hey guys,

How are you all? We've had a really busy last couple of months so thought it was about time we filled you in on the latest Basement news and gave you a new song to listen to!

Since we last checked in we've been to Grimsby, Leicester, Wrexham, York, London, Devon, Southend, Brighton, Mexborough, Derby, Cambridge, Hastings and played at the Beached Festival in Scarborough and the Bloodstock Festival at Catton Hall too. We also had the pleasure of playing with Blind Melon at the LA2 in London a couple of weeks ago....All of those shows were awesome so a massive thankyou to everyone who came along to support us!

Inbetween the gigs, we've been in and out of the studio working on all the new songs we've written which we'll be playing a few of at the Metro Club in London next tuesday night. We're really looking forward to it, anyone who wants to get a ticket can follow this link

http://www.blowupmetro.com/bandinfo.aspx?id=080930g

or click the flyer on the site. It'll be well worth your while getting there early as Tequila Rockinbird and Wired Desire are both bands you'd be a mug to miss! Doors are at 7.30pm and we'll be onstage at 9.30pm....Judging by the messages you've sent us it looks like it's going to be a proper good night!

We also now have the online merch store up and running for anyone who wants a tshirt but hasn't made it to a gig recently.....there's a couple of different designs to choose from so go check them out here

http://www.backstreet-merch.com/bands/hvnbt/

they're printed on vintage wash tshirts so they look cool as fuck and girls look damn hot in them too! They'll also be onsale at all gigs from now on.........

Over the next couple of months we'll be back in the studio to finish off the next batch of songs and we'll be heading out on the road for the next leg of our gargantuan 2008 UK tour! Coming up are dates in Kettering, Glasgow, Dumfries, Fort William, Nottingham, Wrexham, Chester, Peterborough, Stafford and Grimsby. More details on tickets, stage times and directions can be found on the tour section of the myspace and the website.

.....then we'll be back out on the road with Thunder and Get Vegas for some monster gigs all around the UK. This is a tour we've been looking forward to for ages, it'll feel great to get back out on some big stages and tear it up! We're looking for some people to help us out with promotion at these shows.....so if you want to join our Street Team and help spread the word about Heaven's Basement, send us an email telling us your name, city or town you live in and we'll write back to you to explain everything.....here's the email address

streetteam@heavensbasement.com

we look forward to hearing from you!

Last but not least, we've uploaded a brand new track for you called 'Such Is Life' on the main page so go have a listen and let us know what you think!

Hope you're all doing mighty fine, we'll see you soon

Richie, Sid, Jonny, Robbie, Chris
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DEC UK TOUR!