When HORSE the band keyboard Erik Engstrom contacted us a month ago to tell us his band was embarking on a 40-country, seat-of-the-pants world tour with no booking agency and no major tour support, we said, “Dude, don’t get arrested and wind up in a foreign jail.” Then, when he said they would be taking pictures along the way and asked us if we wanted to document the chaos, we said, “Sure, especially if you get arrested.”
The first set of shots from Australia and New Zealand look like regular travel photos with a couple live pics thrown in. Still, they’re well framed and aesthetically pleasing, and they start the proceedings on a nice, level plane that will hopefully spiral into a vortex of chaos, debauchery and overseas penitentiaries as the weeks progress. In fact, Engstrom promises next week’s Japanese pix will be far crazier, so stay tuned:
All photos by Sarah Hamilton, Le Beast Photography
Flights to Fiji for seven and having a four hour layover from 3-7 a.m. the day of the first show of the tour — $7000. Matching the upholstery when you get off the plane. Priceless.
Sydney - first show of Earth Tour. Not much to say about this photo except that Megabats (huge bats flying around all over Sydney) are closer related to monkeys than bats, which means they are like flying monkeys.
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Never forget Pluto, or that, after 10 years as a band, you’re still playing a record store show at four in the afternoon to 14 fifteen-year-old boys. Brutal.
David Isen is actually closer related to the emu than…never mind.
Check back tomorrow for the second installment of HORSE the Band’s Australian adventure.
They were just awesome on stage in Singapore….Its nice to see a band with the balls to do wat these guys are doin…… And oh ya btw they are f*****ing hilarious and down to earth, had fun chatting with Nathan.
Anything and Everything should be given in respects to you guys. But by the by, COME TO MICHIGAN AGAIN!
I was at the tiny record Store gig in Melbourne, i’m not a 14 year old boy! It was amazing, there were easily less than 20 people there and HORSE were **#%??$ brilliant. Nicest guys ever. Nathan is hilarious.
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I am still waiting the Hong Kong part !!
I dont know how suck Hong Kong was, I mean the sound, venue, the bad ass pit etc.
But I did enjoy the great time !
HORSE the band. Amazing. And some of the funniest beasts I’ve seen on stage. I’m way proud and jealous of their Earth Tour. I can’t wait for them to come back, but wouldn’t blame them if they didn’t.
Psssh where are the ones from Hong Kong?
I didn’t know very much about this band before, but after seeing them I’m all set out to find out more. They played one of the the funnest sets I’ve ever experienced, EVAR.
doo doo doo
i friggin LOVE HORSE the band. and i’m super proud of them for doing everything they do! =)
HtB, well, I’d have to agree with Johan Bach.
Also, I think it is amazing that these guys have set themselves apart from all this black clothes, singing about only death and hell, etc etc. Just amazing.
Horse the band is amazing not much more needs to be said.
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the band. What more can be said? Horse the band has changed my life, the way I listen to music, and my perspective on how awesome life can be. In an age where borders are getting darker and more well defined these guys are touring the earth and talking with all the people that live on it. One World baby.