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.
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