Otherkin – CRAZY TOUR STORIES

In this Crazy Tour Stories segment, the grunge pop band, Otherkin, talk about some of their crazy moments from touring. You can check out the feature, after the break.

Oh man, we have a doozy for this one. We’re currently on tour in the UK and we’ve been having a blast. We’ve done a good few shows with our mates the Amazons on their sold-out tour and the gigs have been fantastic. Our second gig with them was in the city of Leicester and it was a particularly wild one. We were buzzing after the show and after a couple of drinks in the venue, we decided to hit the road for our drive back to the place that we were staying for the night.

As we’re driving through the city, we hear this manic beeping coming from behind us. A white Ford Transit van pulls up alongside us so we roll down the window ‘cos we presume he’s gonna tell us our boot door is open or something. Anyway, it’s this guy dressed in all black who starts calling us ‘Irish bastards’ (he must have seen our reg plate) and all the names under the sun. We pass it off as him just joking around and when the light goes green we both keep driving. Next thing he starts driving a bit erratically on the road, all the while still beeping and we start thinking ‘okay, this guy is a bit crazy’. At the next red light, he starts mouthing off at us again and our driver (who’s not one to just take all these names) goes to push his wing-mirror in. Big mistake. It sets the guy off.

Next thing, this guy starts trying to ram his van into ours and we’re all like ‘okay, what the fuck?’. The light goes green and this guy is literally chasing us through the city! At the next red light, he leans out the window of his van and starts clawing at the door trying to open the handle. When he can’t open it he grabs onto our wind guard and rips it clean off! We now know that this guy is real unhinged and we really try to lose him. All the while he’s driving alongside us just waving the wind guard mockingly at us (the guys in the back couldn’t really see what was going on and thought it was a shotgun, they were freaking!)

We eventually manage to lose him on the outskirts of the city and our nerves gradually settle down. After about twenty minutes on the motorway we pull in for a piss break and obviously, the conversation is dominated by how much of a loon that guy was. We’re pretty glad that the ordeal was over, it looked like it was all gonna kick off for a while. THE NEXT THING, the frantic beeping is back and the van whizzes by us as we’re parked up. Oh fuck. We notice that he pulls into the service station just up the road, which we have to pass. No-one is keen to restart the whole cat-and-mouse thing that was going on so we rejig the sat-nav and get off the motorway immediately to take the back-roads home. Needless to say, we spent the next hour checking the mirrors to make sure that no vans were tailing us, not the most fun we’ve had I gotta say. As soon as we get back to our place, we all crack out the strong spirits, definitely necessary to take the edge off the night.

Luke and the guys xx

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