Beat Union Warped Tour diary (part 1)

July26^th Uniondale, New York.

Hello! This is Dean here from Beat Union, one of a
few limey English acts on this year's Warped Tour. It's crazy to think we've been on this tour for over a month
already! It's flying by crazy fast!

Today was my birthday! As you get older b'days become quite a bumout, but
today to be playing in New York to one of the best crowds we've had all tour,
it was definitely a special one! The boys bought me f'all!
Ha. But the lovely peeps in OreskaBand hooked me up
with some Guiness tins! We had a 2:15pm set today,
the stage placement and our merch' guy Chris's
pre-show pipe up meant we had a more than decent crowd to throw down to! Our aftershow signing was awesome also... we're a new band out
here so our signing sessions are sometimes us four, Chris and a young scallywag
with no manners who just wants to blag a free water. It's a cool way to meet
the kids and no matter how much we hear "I love your accent!",
it never gets old.

In the evening, the boys from Shwayze kindly invited us
to party down with them in Manhattan! They're busy boys at the moment promoting
their new tv show. Twas wicked of them to let us taste that vip treatment! + free drinks on ya bday is always a good one.Their main man DJ Trevor threw in American Boy by Estelle,
one of our tour anthems! Also Hot and Cold by Katy Perry! Some
fine jams.

(b U & Cisco Adler)

We
were pretty well behaved all night, until Davey decided to spray every one
(inc. the driver) with Beer in the cab on the way back. The poor geezer was
pretty vexed and threatened to kick us out, luckily Lucky Luke saved us with
his gift of the gab sweet talk. We arrived back to the van at stupid o'clock
ready to hit the road to Scranton, Pa.

July 27^th. Scranton, PA.

Today was a slow day... our production homeslice Damone scheduled us to
play last on our stage, predicting we'd have sore heads or worse. Another crazy
ass storm hit today, there seems to be a lot of these occurring! Luckily the
trusty web lab provided some warmth and shelter and time to update our myspace with awesome new Flogging Molly support dates!!

Our Rock show today was a lil lightweight crowd spectator person-wise,
onstage we had technical B S slowing down the proceedings! This equalled in us
giving a pretty ag' performance, the piss in the
bottles being thrown by Bring Me The Horizon (Brits abroad!) fans fuelled our
fires for sure.

(post show aggro!)

After show Reel Big Fish played the hits
at the BBQ. Aaron Barret's drunken stupor provided
many a laugh for all!! After the best grilled cheese sandwich of my life, me and Luke threw down some moves in the DJ tent, where Gabe
Cobra was spinning some sick tunes! The likes of Paula Abdul, Bobby Brown and
Boys II Men were piped up... so good to see I'm not the only rocker who digs the
funky shit also. On the dancefloor I bumped into Nata 3OH!3, where we discovered
we've both mastered the art of the faulty leg, where one turns one's feet the
opposite way...always a good party trick to pull out of the bag. Luke pulled out
his Dwarfism act!

(Dean and Gabe Cobra)

(Nate 3OH!3 and Dean's faulty feet)

(more faultiness)

(Luke and Pleasure Ryland Cobra)

(Jock Dwarfson)

After
this, I got in the van and stayed up all night trying to get Luke's computer to
work so I could deliver this blog business!