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To all the people in Canada, this is why we (SIGNUM) didn't show up in Canada (Plush)
To all the people who came up to Plush (Vancouver), and did not see us.....
Every once in a while, you find yourself in a situation, that everything that can go wrong, will go wrong! Here's what happened to us last weekend.
We were booked for the opening-night @ Plush, a club in Vancouver (2-10-2004), to play a 2 hour set (01.00-03.00 PM). We were really excited to go over there again, cause it had been quite a while since our last visit to canada (which went wrong as well).
Anyway we arrived @ Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, to fly to London-Heathrow, once we had checked in, we had a 1 hour delay, so far so good (cause a 1 hour delay is not the worst that can happen in this situation). After arriving in London we had to transfer to another terminal for our connecting flight. Our flight (Air Canada) was suppose to leave @ 16.15 PM........Once it had reached that time, there still was nothing on the info-screens, except to wait in the lounge.......Finally 1 hour later a message was given, that the flight had been delayed till 18.15 PM........So we kept on waiting & continue with being bored......Another message was given.........and guess what?, delayed till 19.00 PM.
So far we had allready lost 3 hours waiting! Normally when you have to wait that long, you'll get some info on what has happened.......but no! Finally around 20.00 PM the message was given, that we could start boarding........WOOHOO.......Our thought on this was, that we would still be able to make our gig in time.......Big relief, but It still took another full hour to check in all the passengers..... So @ 21.00 hours we could finally take off!
Finally in the air, a announcement was made that they were very sorry for the delay, and that they had experienced some technical difficulties (whatever that means).
Completely tired and f***ed up from all the waiting, they came up with the most hillarious message of the whole day, which was, that the crew/captains had exceeded their official working time, and therefor we had to make a pit-stop in Toronto, where they would switch crews/captains, re-fuel and let us wait for another hour............Yipeekayee!!!
At this point we had come to the horrible conclusion, that our worst nightmare had come true, and the whole trip was useless........there was no way, we could play anymore @ the club!!! Well Done Canada Air!!!!. The whole trip to Vancouver had cost us 12 Hours in total, and we finally arrived @ 04.00 AM.........., completly nackered to the max!!!
And once you think you've had it all, there's allways that thing called "Customs & Migration" (now we understand how they came up with the word migraine), and yet another obstacle in our nightmare was added. Since we live in Holland, every other country you go to, custums look @ you, like your the dealer, whom they are willing to catch so badly.....So we spend another hour, being questioned about a lot of bullshit & almost stripsearched.....Untill we finally could go outside, smoke a cigarette, with the knowledge that we had to go back again in 8 hours.......
But rest assured, we will be back in November, we'll leave a couple a days earlier, so that even if we have this shit again, you'll won't notice it.......hahaha. We will also play an extended set, to make it up 2 you all, and give you a night to remember..!!!
Our appologies, and c ya in November
Greetz,
Pascal & Ron
Signum
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We'd love to have you folks play here.
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