Lock & Key – CRAZY TOUR STORIES

In this Crazy Tour Stories segment, Josh Murphy, of the metallic hardcore band, Lock & Key, talks about one of their crazy moments from touring. You can check out the feature, after the break.

I’d say one of stranger stories has to be from a tour with an absolutely terrible start. Within the first 3 days, we’d gone through 3 vans, gathered various friends and all sorts of modes of transport to lug our gear around before finally hiring what would be our final van, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise. That palaver has absolutely nothing to do with where I’m heading with this but, it was certainly worth a mention.

Once we finally got rolling, it was absolutely one of our best experiences in mainland Europe to date. The shows were insane, we had good people with us and we were generally having a good time which made the first few days of time discomfort and time wasting completely irrelevant.

After a show in Poland, we ended up crashing back at the promoters place who happened to have a handful of friends there who absolutely insisted at least some of us ‘partied’ with them. Smashing shots of straight vodka down my neck every 3 minutes wasn’t my usual idea of fun but I’m up for anything.

We make a few trips to the night shop, pass around a pet rat for half an hour all while persistently downing ethanol and getting into the culture… or something like that.

The night goes on and a few people start flaking or are already in bed sound asleep and it’s just me and Gary (guitarist) left sat down at this little table with a bunch of people we’ve never met, still necking fermented potato skins every couple of minutes and learning words we’ll never remember or say again, but overall the moods pretty chill and were both pretty content.

I’m chatting away having a nice conversation with one of these few remaining people in particular and all of a sudden Gary’s pushed his chair out stood up and all I hear is “I’m sorry mate, but I’m not having that!” This dude out of nowhere has just turned on Gary, telling him he’s surrounded by negative energy and supposes it’s related to his ancestor’s actions during the war period……

YOU WHAT MATE!? Even one of their friends can’t really make sense of what’s just escalated of nowhere and we are all just looking at each other completely puzzled. We try to move on, but Gary’s already understandably had enough and retreats to van to put his head down and we’ve all just halted to an awkward silence.

Every cloud has a silver lining though because as a result, I got an unexpected guided tour around Warsaw at 4:30 in the morning from the apparent sane one of the lot, learnt mostly everything there was to know about the town (which I’ve since forgotten because of said fermented potato skins) hopped on a few trams, tried to find some breakfast at the crack of down and generally just had a really nice time.

Bit different.

Keep up with the band on Facebook and Twitter!

Let us know what you think of this feature in the comments below or by tweeting us! Also, help us continue releasing great content, like this, by supporting us on Patreon!