Wednesday, October 29, 2008

GAMA BOMB POST END-OF-TOUR REPORT

Irish thrashers GAMA BOMB recently spent over a month storming their way
across Europe on the Thrashing Like A Maniac tour along with LA shredders
BONDED BY BLOOD and UK openers SWORN AMONGST.

After tearing it up in every corner of Europe, the bands are now home and
have had some time to recover and to look back at their recent journey.

GAMA BOMB frontman PHILLY BYRNE comments on the tour:

"We've finally reached the end of our European tour with Bonded By Blood and
Sworn Amongst, which took in 34 shows in 11 countries, 40,000 miles on the
clock in a tourbus with 18 people aboard, chugging through something like
180 litres of diesel over the course of five weeks and five days. Along the
way there were torn ligaments, damaged vocal chords, a suspected broken ass
bone, about 12 cases of the common cold, a few outbreaks of alcohol
poisoning and more bruises, cuts, scrapes and mysterious injuries than we
care to count.

"We played in two haunted clubs, complete with a ghost that didn't want us
to use the shower, a former Greek restaurant with murals of the Parthenon, a
biker-controlled backstreet bar, a black metal meeting house, a classic car
workshop, a converted slaughterhouse, dockside pubs, a couple of youth
clubs, drug dens, shit holes and palaces too. We're not clear on how many
guitar strings we used, but it pales in comparison to the amount of beers we
drank. Also, we have no idea how many people we played to, but it was
excellent all the same, as we're starting to meet people who wear our shirts
to the show. Nice."

Read the full tour report on GAMA BOMB's MySpace blog at
http://tinyurl.com/62bx55

Check out GAMA BOMB stamping out inferior metal and destroying London with
their track "Hammer Slammer" at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7nNiK-DYdGs

GAMA BOMB will be back on tour in Europe in 2009, but you can keep yourself
thrashing through the Winter with the band's Earache Records debut album,
CITIZEN BRAIN, available now from all good music retailers, or from the
Earache Webstore at http://www.earacheshop.com/store/gamabomb.html

For more GAMA BOMB news and info, head to http://www.myspace.com/gamabomb


UK AND EUROPEAN PRESS MANAGER - TALITA
talita@earache.com
London office phone: +44(0)207 240 5002

USA PRESS MANAGER - ANTHONY
usapr@earache.com
NYC office phone: +1(212)840 9090

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