Chile

Chile is the last destination of our southamerican tour and it's being another incredible experience! We had a couple of days off before our first show here and so we got to visit Santiago and Valparaíso. Both of them are really nice cities. From the Santa Lucia hill in the center of Santiago we had a great view on the whole city and the snowy (unfortunately pretty clouded) peaks of the Andes. Valparaíso is a smaller city located at the coast and has one of Chiles most important harbours. There are some very nice beaches in the area as well. But because of the heavy earthquake and the tsunami resulting out of it they unfortunately are rather devistated at the moment.
The tour in Chile consists of five shows and for all of them we're sharing the stage with Temporal from Santiago. One great band that is definitely worth being checked out!
We were lucky enough to tour in Chile at the time of the Furia Festival, a three days event that took place in the city of Talca. We played Furia Fest last Saturday and it truly was a blast! There was much more going on than just music: In the large patio of the venue a lot of people set up their distros for records and zines. There also was a screenprinting lab on the spot where you could hand in a shirt and have it printed with the beautiful artwork of the Furia Festival within seconds.
Shortly after we arrived at the Festival a small boy approached our merch table. It took me a little time but finally I realized that he was wearing a self-made Überyou shirt! Ten year old Felix from Talca is probably our youngest fan ever and I think it's beyond crazy to get to a place as remote from home as Talca, Chile and encounter a young kid that is wearing a shirt of your band.
The show at Furia Festival was insane! Both the crowd and we delivered a great energy and made this one of our most fun shows ever! People in Talca really do like circle pits...Even during our slower songs they didn't stop doing it...
The next day we played in Chillan which is about on hour south of Talca and we got to know the true meaning of a "late show"...or maybe I should call it early show. There were five bands on the bill but when we got to the venue around 10:30 pm the venue was still closed. The first band started around 1:30 am. The venue was really dark. Some few black light lamps were pretty much the only sources of "light" in the whole place. In addition the fact that they played really heavy doom records between the bands did not really help to shorten the waiting...For we were playing last we started our set around 4:45 am...to be honest, we would not have expected this in advance but there actually still was a really good amount of people present at the venue by that time. And they seemed to be way less tired than we were and they really made up for all the waiting. So it turned out to be a great night after all.
Tonight we're going to play one more show in Santiago which will be our last show of the southamerica tour. The last days and weeks have been so intense that I've not yet realized that were slowly coming to the end of this beautiful Latin America experience. BUT...we're not going home yet!
Anyways...from all our hearts we want to thank Sebastian aka "el rey de neumaticos" from Redencion Booking for putting this whole Chile trip together, for driving and showing us around and for putting up with all our shit. We love you buddy!
We'd also like to thank everyone else that was involved in this Chile tour in any way. People like Sergio and his family that hosted us in Conception made this experience kinda unique!