Monday 19/9
So here we go.
All packed upp for the tour... left Falun for Stockholm at lunchtime...
Met up Dan (our manager) in Stockholm, did some final shopping like guitarstrings etc etc.
Had a great pizza and a couple of beers and went through the schedule. Sleept early for an early takeoff on tuesday.

Tuesday 20/9, Wednesday21/9
Okidoki here we go. Got up early in the morning and went to Arlanda airport and checked in.
Our first flight took us down to amsterdam where we switched to a bigger, better and more comfortable airplane. Ofcourse it had its problems so it took of something like an hour later than scheduled ;).
Anyway, off we went and 10 hours later we landed saftely in Japan where we met up with mr Daisuke Kambe, manager for Wizzard in Vinyl.
Time for 10 more hours in our tourbuss all the way down to Osaka. Checked into the hotel and went out for food and drinks.
Then back to the hotel for a very very needed sleep. Good night...

Thursday 22/9
Wakie wakie..
Had a nice breakfast and checked out central Osaka.
After lunch it was time for soundcheck at Shinsaibashi Shinkagura club. Everything went perfect.
Ready for our first gig at 21:30. Had a couple of beers in the afternoon and grabbed some food.
Dressed up for the gig and off we went... 1.2.3.4...GOOOOOOOO!!!
Pretty short but intense gig, around 35 min.
Arigato Osaka. Some fan-photos and recordsigning and then... party all night long... :) KAMPAI!!!

Friday 23/9
Gooooooodmorning Hawaii Mud Bombers!!!
Time to go promoting. Met up with Tower records, HMV a couple of other stores. Signing records and T-shirts and stuff and afterwards on to soundcheck at Live square 2:nd Line (cool place) great sound.
After soundcheck we tried out japanese pizza and had a couple of beers. Then back to the club and... 1.2.3.4...GOOOOOOOO!!!
Great gig!!! and what's the name of the band...HAWAII MUD BOMBERS!!! Syko!!!
Lots of fan-photos and recordsigning.
Left the club and had a fucking great afterparty with our record company and other bands.
Crashed in bed sometime during early morning...ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz...

Saturday 24/9
Okidoki so here we go. Started out in Osaka and drove all the way to Huck Finns club in Nagoya. Did a lot of promotion in stores and shopped some stuff for the gig.
Stopped by an small fishrestaurant that impressed us all... really cool restaurant...
Great gig, great club, great audience... what more is there to say... surf on...
Took of from Nagoya in the middle of the night after checking the weatherreport for an incomming Typhoon... we missed the typhoon and got saftely to Tokyo...

Sunday 25/9
Tokyo... Zher the Zoo club... really cool club...
During the day we went to mr Daisukes house to get some rest.
In the evning we went to central tokyo to promote in a lots of stores....great fun :)
The gig this evening was so f...n great... crazy audience danced around the whole club (best gig so far)
Dropped by an restaurant on the way to the hotel. Japanese food is the greatest...

Monday 26/9
Club Shelter... Did some promotion and interviews for magazines before the show.
The gig went perfect, the kids went totaly crazy during the show...(needed guards here:) and the whole evening ended up in a even more crazy afterparty at the club. (pictures will be at the gallery later). Sometime during early morning we left the club for our apartment...good night/morning...

Tuesday 27/9
Okidoki... wrote about the party yesterday... or to be more specific this very morning. Well this day is studioday... 2 new songs to record at Sound Crew Studio in Tokyo.
So at 10:30 in the morning we started out with drums... took aprox 15 minutes to finnish. Then on with bassguitar, guitars and finaly vox and percussion...
First song was a brand new song called CAT AND DOG and the second one was a new version of Suzuki Samurai with an "I THINK I'M TURNING JAPANESE" addon... Both recording went superb and can be expected on a new single pretty soon...
After the studio we celebrated at this great japanese steakhouse...all night... :)

Wednesday 28/9
Ahhhhh... our first day off since arriving...
Went into Tokyo and did some sightseeing... relaxed and ate lots of food. In the evening we had dinner together and the dinner turned into party and so on and so on... :) KAMPAI!!!!!!

Thursday 29/9
GOOOOOOODMORNING HAWAIIMUDBOMBERS!!!
Time is 04:30 in the morning and we're off to Kanzawa for our next gig.
Long trip, 8 hours crossing the mountains (beautiful view for those of uss that where awake... :)
Finaly we arriwed at Kanzawa. Had some sushi and took of for soundcheck at VANVAN 4 the club.
Great sound and cool club.
At 22:30 we entered the stage and rocked the place from top to bottom. Great gig with lots of punkrockkids. Lots of signing and photos.
And then... 8 more hours back to Tokyo. Crashed in the tourbus...ZZZZZzzzzzz...

Friday 30/9
Slept a few hours, then Hasse, Mats and Dan ( manageer ) went into Tokyo to stroll around... started at Starbucks where Mats introduced us to Chai Tea... pretty good actually.
Then we went to the Skyscraper area... really amazing.
Back to Starbucks to meet up with the others, then back home to Ageo where we stayed for some dinner and... yeah you guessed it... Beer.
Goooodniite.

Saturday 1/10
Up, up and away... To Omiya Hearts Club for the last gig, we played with bands like Strawberry Mud Pie, Ketchup Mania and Onepercenters ( Of course!! ), the gig was really great and we met lots of people who had seen the shows before.
Then we had a party with some of the bands and took over the whole restaurant with our loud singing... Does it seem hard??

Sunday 2/10
No more shows? No more playing? Uh Oh?!
We better have some fun in Tokyo then... New hotel in Ueno in Northeast Central Tokyo...
Masse, Hasse and Ullis went to Electric City... biggest place if your into games, toys and that kind of things... Coooool place. Bought some souvenirs, went home to sleep.

Monday 3/10
Ohhh my god, up early to go for a walk around the park in Ueno. Then lunch and off we go to Asakusa where all the big temples are... and tourists... and things to spend money on... Came home and decided to have a last big party... I mean we're still young... Turned out to be great, we ended up drinking with some japanese businessmen. Then everyone dissapperad and Hasse and Utter went off to find a nightclub. That didn' t go well but Hasse had himself a Lost in Translation meeting with a really cool French ( sorry, Brooklyn ) girl....Well well.

Tuesday 4/10
Everyone went into Shinjuku for some Starbucks and last day of fun, except Hasse... In the evening we packed our gear and prepared to go home... buuhuu. Me don't want to.
It rained in the evening, first day of bad weather we had.

Wednesday 5/10
Up early, to Narita airport... Hasse almost brought a sword through customs but realized that they probably wouldn't appreciate that kind of behavior...
In the plane we all went into movie mode and watched like four features each... The feeling you get in your ass after sitting down for 11 hours is... not wonderful...
Amsterdam, new plane which two of the guys almost missed, then train in Stockholm to Falun... at 22.36 we arrived in a cold hometown... Can't wait to get back to Japan!!!