Photos from Poland

One of the best stages we have ever played on was in Poland in a town called Wroclaw - beautiful place with a gignormous sound and very onto-production crew. This was a wonderful film festival called New Horizons and featured NZ films, too.

German Newspapers!

Moana and the Tribe in the German Newspapers:

http://news.google.de/news?q=moana

English Newspapers:

http://news.google.com/news?q=moana+tribe&hl=en

Pictures:

http://images.google.com/images?q=moana%20tribe&hl=en

Video from Brienz

Happy Bastille Day!

A video! From the website of a swiss newspaper called Jungfrau Zeitung ("Vestal Newspaper" or "Virgin Gazette")

For the (robot translated) ENGLISH VERSION, CLICK HERE!

The Original Article in German is HERE!

Montreux

What a festival! Famous for 42 years, we plyed twice to excellent crowds. Last night, despite a thunderstorm threatening to disrupt the outside stage area, the clouds parted long enough for our 75 minute set - which went down fantastically. Our audience wanted an encore - and when we didn't return to the stage (they were cheering and clapping) and when the organiser informed them we had finished, they started booing!! Awesome!

The festival was full of stunning artists - Roberta Flack was playing at the same time with the David Sandborn band and Tower of Power. Tonight, is Lenny Kravitz and tomorrow night is Chaka Khan and Herbie Hancock.

The grounds are full of bars, music, food stalls - and the most drop dead gorgeous looking people....the band was all starry eyed. It was a great couple of days and we parked up at the home of our NZ Consul General in Switzerland, who with her husband, spoilt us rotten! Off to have a meal cooked for us by a top Swiss chef then onto Brienz for a gig - and a special massage. Gee, not too shabby, eh??

Boys on autobarn having a quick busk...not sure how many euro they made!

On the road

Leipzip rocks!

We were well taken care of by our promoter Dirk, who even took Trina and I to watch the first few songs of the Santana concert - awesome!

Lovely city and very friendly people, a place I would like to return to. Last night, we played in Mainz as support to Norwegian singer Maria Mena, an outdoor gig in very warm temperatures.

Now we head to Augsburg - an old favourite on our tour.

hi from germany

We arrived into Frankfurt just in time for the European Cup Final - and joined a big bunch of germans in a park, on deckchairs, beer in hand to watch the television screens set up. What a disappointment but the germans conceded that the spanish were the better team. That night we performed outdoors and it was sweltering!

Frankfurt was followed by Bonn, in a really cute club theatre called the Pantheon. What a wonderful audience and a pretty city.

Wuppertal is famous for its overhead hanging railway system, but I learnt from our audience at the Rex Theatre that the name means Valley of the River, that the theatre was a famous burlesque club called the Apollo, that Wuppertal was the primary textile manufacturer for Germany - AND that the best organic bread in the country comes from this town!!!

Our lovely promoter arranged to have a couple of bags of bread dropped off to us so I will test it for everyone.#

Great weather, lovely people and very responsive audiences!