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premier étape BOLZANO
Yet again the joint adventure TOHKAMAK - guitarsgalore risked it to drag some freaks outta their caves, on occasion of their mini tour with The Fumestones The Staggers
took a chance and played a show in the city of Poizen better known under the name of Bolzano/Bozen. The stage for their appearance was set at the Bunker, literally underground.
Opening the dances was The Delicious Deadly Octopus who took advantage of the date and drove in from the neighbouring satellite city Livearse/Lievez. They had some new tunes with them and a heavily influenced by Nick "Nikolaus XIII" Thirteenfingers cheesy organ was a version of
Personal Jesus, reach out touch ffff ff filth...
A whole bunch of city rollers, evidently not at all afraid of the Krampus where acting as mean little brats, that and the fact that the Klaubauf didn’t show up to punish them brought Jimmy on the verge of a nervous breakdown. He started insulting the audience and throwing random crap at it. Johnny's beer showers, in fact at one point he threw a beer can at Jimmy Baron couldn't cool him down either. So it didn't take too long before Mister Skulls ended the set with a feedback orgy
whilst kicking "Loupgarou" Chrissy The Boy The Ripper's Upright Bass.
Bicio of Cosmopolitan Greetings calmed the moods down by putting on some garage punk tunes from
the 1960's, and soon it was the primitive drums of The Staggers that filled the hall intoning the Jaguar. It only took three seconds to get the girls in front of the stage twisting and soon the whole crowd was shaking too. Evel was in great shape as always and apart from howling and demonstrating his virtuosity on the tambourine he went through his entire repertoire, twist lessons, switchblade stabbings and metamorphosis into the green monster. Needless to say that the combo had to play several encores before the mob would even consider to let them go. Right after the live show Bicio and Evel went on spinning their record collection and kept the dancing vibe alive.
The merchandise got also busy with vinyl shoppers requesting the Staggers 12" and ggWRECkURDS sold out their Staggers Live record before the evening was over.
In the end the reason for the absence of the eagerly awaited Krampus got also known, he simply couldn't find the place.
 

deuxième étape München
The same place that saw The Staggers come to a screeching halt about a year ago, namely the Monofaktur in Munich is the starting point of their adventure with The Fumestones. Ayhan couldn't have a better combination to pay honour to his baby SHAKEyourASS Munich. It was a blast, the place was packed, lots of hip chicks all ready to party hard. This place has seen almost every garage trash band touring the old continent so the audience was a well educated one, also on Wednesday and Thursday after 11 the beer prices go down to 1.5 euros so if your head is full of shite and you can't appreciate the raw gems coming from the turntables you can always make sure you'll be zoning out to a decent hangover the morning after. Anyway, the Fumestones played first and midway through their set started rolling around the floor amidst the audience and soon thereafter proceeded filling their boots with Bavarian beer. Not content they were in the first line and kept spitting beer at The Staggers, who seemed to appreciate this primitive behaviour and went on rocking the house down, all in all the folks got what they wanted.

troisième étape Innsbruck
OK Friday night and you dorks missed out on yet another garage mayhem by the mighty CHOKE media empire in inzbrooke garage punk capital of... friggin ostrich... WTF! This time instead of the PMK hideaway, that had some artsy fartsy goin' on it was time to drench the cellar in front of the alcoholic rehab known as workstation aka the hairy batcave, yep it is the one with the cheap booze the fuzzy swings and overflowing crapper. Anyway we are kinda rambling on here, so let's get to the point since you maggots is always getting shorter attention spans, exclamation point
OK so what was there to see, huh? The Staggers trashing the whole 6T's repertoire in well-known manner, Evel, Iris, Shakin Matthews, Los Fixos and the new members on bass and drums are getting tighter and tighter and this was tight as a sparrows funny. Then it was time for the The Fumestones frum Madrid - e s p a i n. what an incredibly demented set, Raul el hombre on iris' farfisa organ was playing the chords with the bassmans winklepicker boot which he also was continuously refilling either with beer or with bourbon, and passing it 'round the audience, amongst some of the hardest drinkers was the Palo Alto/Telfs all teenage gurl outfit known as The Shirley Mac Laines, you can easily spot them on the pics, laying on the floor and shaking on stage. after the 5th encore the locos didn't really know what else to "play" as a green-faced monster was seizing the stage beating the tambourine and playing random keys on the farfisa with his feet. The Fumestones didn't wait to long to burst out in yet another beat massacre continuously sprayed with beer by the City Trash bros and not hesitating to spit it back on the audience... what a fucking mess it was. After the live bands, the Gimp and Bunny Miami went on spinning the rekkids and the usual suspects proceeded with shaking their tits and arses till dawn ending the thang with a locomotion captained by wild Evel himself. Everyone that witnessed this will certainly be attending the Bloody Hollies/The Shirley Mac Laines show on this years last Friday, 30th of December on day ahead of new years eve, and in case you was one of the aforementioned dorks you should really try to get a grip and move your arse to the PMK hideout on that occasion. BTW the deranged monster turned out to be 170