Thanks.

Well, we all feel sort of corny and helpless here but we all want to thank everyone who purchased the ep in the past day or donated to help us get a leg up. This tour was going so smooth too. We were playing in nice venues, dealing with nice people (even the ones who thought we sucked for some strange reason HI ROK HOW ARE YOU MAN!) Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, France, Italy, and Slovenia were all very nice to us. So nice that we were just losing our minds of some of these places. Everyone was bending over backwards to help us out on this tour and people were super excited to have us in their town or city. For that we thank you, and hope you will all have us back in the near future.

Ben and Gertjan are on their way back to Belgium, with the help of Bjourn, who drove all the way from Ghent at the drop of a hat to come get us. Myself, Jeff and Sarah are still here in Dresden until Jeff gets a green light from the Dr´s here to say he can leave or they are gonna do some surgery on him.

We gotta seriously thank the people from the AZ Conni for allowing us to post up here at the venue for the past two days thank you. We also really owe Bjoern, Thomas, and Helenia everything otherwise we would be stranded in Teplice where nothing is open, ever and we probably woudn´t be in as good of spirits as we are right now.

We just wanted to say thank you for all of the help. This is just making me feel crazy.

Gods And Queens

Gods And Queens

Uhm…We need some help.

I´m going to try and make this as short as I can. After all these years of touring in unsafe vans, and doing stupid things, I guess I was over due for this… We had a serious van accident in route from our show in Graz, Austria to Dresden, Germany, somewhere along the highway in the Czech.

I was asleep in the back of the van, so I’m unsure of what exactly happened. All I know is I felt the van skidding out and we started to slide and roll over. Not sure exactly how many times the van flipped but it was more than enough. I started screaming for everyone to tell me they were OK. Gertjan check, Ben check, Sara check, and I didnt hear Jeff.

Ben pulled me out through the windshield and I took off running, screaming for help with blood pouring down my face. I honestly though Jeff was dead. A car stopped and a slew of women started screaming at me and I was screaming at them. We were in the middle of no where and as I was running two things came to mind, I think Jeff is dead, and I hope I don´t get shot like Artimus Pyle. A woman pulled me into her house and her husband and son ran to the van crash site. I found Gertjan, and he said everyone is OK. The family started talking to me via Google Translation telling me everyone is safe and that an amublance is on the way.

The ambulance comes takes us to a hospital, we get taken care of…sort of. The police arrive on the scene and inform us that we aren´t leaving until the medical bills are paid in full. The were so kind enough to escort Sara and myself to an ATM machine to pay the entire lump of the bills in full on the spot. Even after we signed some strange papers saying we have 30 day with proof of citizenship, etc. What the fuck ever right? We asked where Gertjan was, and their respone was…prison. 300 phone calls and around €3,000 later we are out of the damned Czech and safe in Germany.

Long short, we are all somewhat OK. Jeff broke his collarbone, Ben got his hand jacked up, I am pretty alright, Gertjan is OK, as well as Sara. The van is destroyed. Booking these tours ourself really made me realize that we are 100% on our own. We had no one to call, no one to “rescue” us. I made 3 phone calles and the entire German punk scene came to our rescue. God damn thank you. Our new friends from Dresden Germany came to get us at the drop of a hat, no questions asked. Thank you.

So here it is, we are 3 grown adult males in our 30´s who play in a punk band. We are all stage hands at R5 Productions in Philly. That´s what we do to enable us to be here in Europe doing this. Never in our lives have we needed help like we do now. If you want to help us, please go to www.godsandqueens.bandcamp.com and purchas a record for $1.99. If you ever laughed at one of my awful jokes, or spend hours talking with us after a show, and you would like to help, please do. I always though our band would have too much pride to ask for help, but I am pretty sure we all agree that this time we need it. If you would like to help in any form please do jamiegetz(at)gmail.com is the paypal address if you are inclined to do so. We will also accept first class upgrades on US Air, Delta or Virgin.

Thanks.

Hi, We are in Europe

We got into Europe 2 days ago. Practiced in Oostende Belgium for the day and played Paris France last night. It ruled. For quicker updates follow us on…

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Full Video from 11/5/11 At: Union Transfer, Philadelphia PA

Our young punk friend Jake from the Philly band Munchausen filmed our entire set last night, at Union Transfer. Thank you Jake! Below is the video, plese check it out. As we embark on this European tour tomorrow, I would like to point out to all Europeans, we still only play for about 20 minutes. Thank you.
The Mgmt.

Quick News.

Real quick. This Monday we leave for Europe again. This is the first time we are going over there without a new record to tour off of. We do have a new record done but it won’t make it out in time for this tour. That’s 100% our fault. It’s OK though, we want to see what we’re worth, if anything at all. Sink or swim!

Before we take off, this Saturday November 5th we play at Union Transfer in Philadelphia, with Scratch Acid. We are hyped. Did I ever mention that myelf, and Jeff both work at R5 Productions? Ben started working there too. This is sort of like if you work at Wal Mart then go shopping there. It’s a bit strange.

Sunday, we are playing live on WKDU in Philadelphia as well, around 8 p.m. 91.7 tune in!

Monday, we get on a plane!

Ben did something (Whoa!) and gathered up all of the Facebook Event pages. You can check them if you are nosy below.

‎11/09/11 La Miroiterie – Paris, France http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=222883364442869
11/10/11 Le Bar des Capucins – Lyon, France

http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=277134558973507

11/11/11 Edoné – Bergamo, Italy

http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=283014741719554

11/12/11 Arci Valverde – Forli, Italy

http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=173295342749826

11/13/11 Borederline – Pisa, Italy

http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=226198890777175

11/15/11 Koper, Slovenia

http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=126506004119658

11/16/11 Pekarna – Dvorana Gustaf Maribor, Slovenia

http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=265650116804048

11/17/11 Ljubljana, Slovenia

http://www.last.fm/event/20503​74+CAFFEINE+WATERS+FEST

11/18/11 Medika – Zagreb, Croatia
11/19/11 Kino Bosna – Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovnia
11/21/11 Split, Croatia
11/22/11 Budapest, Hungary

http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=212151678851887

11/23/11 Venster 99 – Vienna, Austria

http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=273644719333084

11/24/11 SUB – Graz, Austria

http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=150877228335788

11/25/11 AZ Conni – Dresden, Germany

http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=228270180528974

11/26/11 Saechsischer Bahnhof – Gera, Germany (early show)

http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=246766922036401

11/27/11 Schokoladen – Berlin, Germany (early show)

http://www.last.fm/event/20144​52+Gods+And+Queens+-+yfere+%28​sunday+matinee%29

11/28/11 Exhaus – Trier, Germany

http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=150877228335788

11/29/11 Waldmeister – Solingen, Germany
11/30/11 AZ – Aachen, Germany

http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=143929829039394

12/1/11 De Onderbroek – Nijmegen, Netherlands

http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=173941409348200

12/2/11 Secret Spot – Oostende, Belgium

http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=180432112038591

12/3/11 Vera – Groningen, Netherlands (early show)

http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=174859272600064

Gods And Queens 2011

Unless you have seen us play the past few shows, you haven’t seen our new line up. Gods And Queens, Jamie Getz, Ben Roysdon, Jeff Ziga.

European November 2011 Tour Dates

Here are the current confirmed dates for our tour in Europe this November. A few of the TBA’s will be filled in shortly. I’m hoping to have our new split with us in time for this, but I don’t think it’ll be ready, since we have taken forever to get it together and have drug our feet like no one else ever could. We may do a ltd. cassette release of that for this tour, I’ll know more about that soon. We will have new t-shirts, all of our previously released records on Adagio830, Robotic Empire, and Sons Of Vesta available, as well as custom made switch blades.

This isn’t a farewell tour or something but, I do have a good feeling it’ll be a while before we come back over to Europe. We’ve been there 4 times in 3 years, this will be the 2nd time this year. None of these tours were fancy support slots, just us plugging away, playing where we can, for who we can. We need to buckle down, pay some long over due attention to our regular lives, and record a proper full length record. Booking these tours takes a lot out of me mentally and takes up a lot of my time personally. I feel personally responsible for the 3 other people that are along on the tour (Ben, Jeff, Gert-Jan). If I do a bad job of booking the tour, everyone suffers, then everyone also has to be around my bad mood. It wears me out and I need a little break from that stress. Lets be honest, no one needs to be seeing us play any more than twice a year anyway.

We don’t use a booking agent to do this. This is all 100% friends and friends of friends, helping each other out. I have to give a huge thanks to Luka and Iacopo for helping me with a lot of these dates. If it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t be getting the chance to play in, or see places like Sarajevo, Pisa, or Split. That doesn’t mean that we’ve forgotten about our long time friends and the help they’ve all given to us in The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, and Austria. We love all those places and appreciate all the help everyone gives us. That’s why we keep coming back.

Come to the shows, hang out, and act stupid.

Wed, Nov 9
7:00 pm
La Miroiterie
Paris, France

Thu, Nov 10
7:00 pm
Le Bar des Capucins
Lyon, France

Fri, Nov 11
7:00 pm
Edoné
Bergamo, Italy

Sat, Nov 12
7:00 pm
Arci Valverde
Forli, Italy

Sun, Nov 13
7:00 pm
Borederline
Pisa, Italy

Mon, Nov 14
7:00 pm
Voodoo Arci Club
Comacchio, Italy

Tues, Nov 15
9:00 pm
MKC
Koper, Slovenia

Wed, Nov 16
10:00 am
Radio Student FM 89,3 (Jamie Solo/Acoustic)
Ljublijana, Slovenia *VERY EARLY RADIO SHOW*

Wed, Nov 16
7:00 pm
Pekarna, Dvorana Gustaf
Maribor, Slovenia

Thu, Nov 17
7:00 pm
Menza Pri Koritu
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Fri, Nov 18
7:00 pm
Palah
Rijeka, Croatia

Sat, Nov 19
TBA
Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovnia

Sun, Nov 20
8:00 pm
TBA
Zrenjanin, Serbia

Mon, Nov 21
7:00 pm
TBA
Split, Croatia

Tue, Nov 22
7:00 pm
Széfra
Budapest, Hungary

Weds, Nov 23
8:00 pm
Venster 99
Vienna, Austria

Thurs, Nov 24
8:00 pm
Sub
Graz, Austria

Fri, Nov 25
7:00 pm
AZ Conni
Dresden, Germany

Sat, Nov 26
3:00 pm
Saechsischer Bahnhof
Gera, Germany *Early Show*

Sun, Nov 27
3:00 pm
Schokoladen
Berlin, Germany *Early Show*

Mon, Nov 28
7:00 pm
Exhaus
Trier, Germany

Tue, Nov 29
7:00 pm
Waldmeister
Solingen, Germany

Wed, Nov 30
7:00 pm
AZ
Aachen, Germany

Thu, Dec 1
7:00 pm
De Onderbroek
Nijmegen, Netherlands

Fri, Dec 2
7:00 pm
Secret Spot
Oostende, Belgium

Sat, Dec 3
8:00 pm
Vera
Groningen, Netherlands *FREE SHOW*