The Aeroplanes are one of my favourite Merseyside bands, and on their recent tour to Norway, singer Chris Kearney very kindly kept a diary of their antics. Read on to find out more about burgers, upstaging Brett Anderson and a late-night search for batteries...
Oslo Diary, by Chris Kearney
Airport
"We get to the airport and some a**ehole tells us that we have got to pay extra for all our musical instruments so I get pissed off with the way she is talking to me so she refuses to serve us.
"We then have to go and pay for the instruments with our own money then go to the back of the queue.
"When we get to Oslo the first thing we do is buy 2 bottles of scotch because we hear everything is expensive in Norway. Then we have to get a bus to the city centre which costs us more money that we haven’t got."
Day 1
"We all get up in the morning feeling like s**t because we drank most of the scotch and we have no money left to get anything to eat or drink and we have got an interview for Oslo TV any minute and we are f**king starving.
"We do the interview for the TV then I get on the phone try and get our expenses back so we can get some food.
"As soon as we get our money we go for a burger which cost us about £60 for four burgers and water then we go back to our room/cell and have a few hours’ kip."
Gig
"We turn up to the gig which is in a big circus tent in the centre of the town and it is f**king freezing.
"After watching a few bands we go and see Bret Anderson who bores the f**king life out of us by playing what sounds like the same song for his whole set, I’m not kidding it was the same f**king song all night.
"When it is time for us to go on we are a bit tired and pissed off but the gig ends up going great and it becomes apparent to everybody that we have been the best band on all night (including that whining arsehole Anderson who was f**king boring).
"We then decline the offer to go out to a club and go back to our room to drink the rest of the scotch.
"A few hours later the batteries in the speaker for Vicky’s iPod die so Macca and Crowie go on a mission round Oslo at about 4 in the morning for batteries, Macca falls over on his face and when they get back they have bought the wrong batteries ha..ha..Tits.
"I was made up anyway I was f**ked."
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