2008, what a year it’s been for CHOO CHOO!
We released our debut album in Switzerland, were DRS 3 Swiss Top Band in March, played 34 gigs in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, including shows at Gurtenfestival and Funk am See! We shared an awful lot of great moments and got to know so many great new people!
With that said, we’d like to share our personal top 10 moments of 2008 with you. Enjoy:
Dan
- Releasing our debut album in Switzerland
- Record Release Bash at ISC, Bern
- Playing Gurten Festival and Funk am See. After our gig at Funk am See we headed straight on to Winterthur, where we played a late night show for dancing hippies at Bambole
- Show at Le Volume in Nice, France. Imagine 150 teenagers going wild. Nice, we love you!
- Photo Shooting with Nick, Mark and Beat
- Show at Beat-Club Hamburg. Called the Beat-Club Boss the evening before and asked if we can play. He said, sure, you guys can play. So we did. We had a blast!
- Writing the song “Running in Circles” – a future CHOO CHOO Classic
- Playing “La nuit du rock chic” at Merkker, Baden together with Rodeo Massacre. What a party it was!
- Playing a little festival north of Barcelona. When we were walking down the stage we immediately got to know that we will be playing legendary Beat Festival Purple Weekend in Spain. And what a Killer Weekend Purple Weekend has been! Spain is killer! Love Spain!
- Getting invited to play a showcase at SXSW in 2009!
Sam
- Text from friends while getting ready for a show: “your on the radio!”
- Enjoying the rockstar-moments after the show in Leon, Spain
- Walking through German cities trying to organise the tonight’s gig
- Rock the open-air stage in Luzern, then drive on to the second show somewhere out in the bushes
- Listening to Swiss Radio DRS 3 playing our live show at Gurten Festival while we are driving back from a show we just played at another dirty open-air, where the bus got stuck in the mud
- Finding that sweet gum next to me as I wake up under a table of an Austrian club
- The crowd in Nice (avarage age around 17) going crazy with every move we make
- One of Jim Diamonds fishes smiling at me and Jim saying: “tape’s rolling”
- Bored at the university when Dan’s message comes: “we play the Gurten Festival”
- Lili screaming out of the bus as we are leaving town for a show: “mir gö iz!” (Yes, we are going now)
Lili
- Interview at Swiss Radio/TV Station DRS 3 (Swiss Top Band in March 2008)
- Album Release bash in ISC, Berne
- Supporting Björn Dixgard (Mando Diao) in Fri-Son, Fribourg
- Gig at Gurtenfestival 2008, Berne
- Gig at Funk am See 2008, Lucerne
- Gig at Beatclub, Hamburg
- Gig at White Trash, Berlin
- Gig at Merkker, Baden
- Gig at Purple Weekend in Leon, Spain
- Confirmation to play at SXSW 2009 in Austin, Texas
Yan
- Holding our fresh pressed CD in my hands
- Being swiss top act in March
- Playing Gurten Festival
- Afterparty at Merkkerm where we played with Rodeo Massacre
- Playing two great private shows: Provitreff in Zürich and Atelier Punkt in Bern
- Unplugged performance at Radio Virus
- 100 000 views on kyte.tv
- Finding an article on CHOO CHOO in spanish Newspaper “La Cronica”
- Photoshooting with Mark, Nick and Beat (see Dan’s list above)
- Invitation to play SXSW in 09!
And there is a lot of exciting stuff in the making for 2009! Keep you posted on that.
