Complied by Mike & Jonny, overlooked by Tommy and his girlfriend Amy.. here are Spineshank’s top bus moments from the Roadrage tour. 1. When we were parked… 2. Driving for 2 days straight. 3. The Nazi bus driver whose only English word was “shit”. 4. Waking up early morning to people farting in their sleep. 5. Having 3 TVs on the bus – but none of them work… 6. Rain water leaking into the bunks!

Get it while it’s hot. We’ve just posted up a brand new MP3 of 36 Crazyfists, called ‘The Heart And The Shape’, taken from forthcoming album ‘A Snow Capped Romance’. Get it HERE.

Chimaira have confirmed a MASSIVE UK headlining tour for February. Support will come from God Forbid and one other band TBC. Tickets are 퉌£8.50/퉌£9.50 London. Dates are as follows: Feb 2nd Oxford Zodiac Feb 3rd Cardiff Engine Rooms Feb 4th Exeter Lemon Grove Feb 5th Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms Feb 6th London Mean Fiddler Feb 7th Birmingham Academy 2 Feb 8th Manchester Hop & Grape Feb 9th Nottingham Rock City Feb 10th Glasgow King Tuts Feb 11th Sheffield Corporation Feb 12th Leeds Josephs Wells Feb 13th Colchester Soundhaus Feb 14th Liverpool Uinversity Feb 15th Dublin Temple Bar Music Centre Feb 16th Belfast Limelight

Now, you take a song to radio, you make a video for it, right? Well, usually…but do know that over this coming weekend (Happy Thanksgiving to our American chums for Thursday), Nickelback will be shooting a new video. True. Which song? “Feeling Way Too Damn Good.” The video is scheduled to be shot on Nov 28th in Vancouver. In even bigger Nickelback news, some incredible news from Australia. Yesterday, both Nickelback’s album (The Long Road) and single (Someday) reached PLATINUM sales. The single has been in the National Top 10 for 10 consecutive weeks! Brilliant news… congratulations to Nickelback, the fans, and all those over there at RR Australia.

Here’s the latest entry in the Machine Head journal from Robert Flynn… Do note, the UK dates kick off in London TOMORROW, and some shows are already SOLD OUT. If you want to catch the awesomeness that is live Machine Head, hurry the hell up and get your tickets before they are all gone! Hey, hey, hey. Got a day off in Zurich, Switzerland today. Just chillin’ at the Intercontinental Hotel Business Center at 1:05 AM. Being on tour is a trip, it’s like working the graveyard shift. I go to bed around 5:30AM every night, ’cause I don’t start “work” ’til around 11PM, so my morning begins at 2PM when I wake up. Day starts off with some Chai tea, or Chai Tea and a beer if I’m hungover. Do a bunch of interviews. Been doing more press than I’ve ever done in my life on this tour… DAMN! I’m not complaining or anything, it’s cool, it’s just a trip. After that I’ll hang around the club, see what kind of interesting bathroom-like facility there may or may not be. Hang with the Kill II This’s. Soundcheck, work on songs we’re fucking up in the set, or songs we’re trying to bring into the live set to alternate. Either that or jam on Priest, Maiden, old Pantera, or “The Safety Dance” by new wave gods Men Without Hats. *cough* This tour has been going amazing, and I say that with sincere shock, people are freaking out on Machine Head, or as they pronounce it here in Europe, “Mushy Ned”. It’s been really fun man… beer, vodka, brawls, love. Last night we played Treviso, Italy, this is the first time we have ever been to this city, and girls were openly weeping in the audience during our set… for no reason! It was crazy!!! A couple of nights ago in Madrid, a couple of assholes thought it’d be fun to play “test the new guy”, so after the show, the boys, following suit after Snoop D-O-double-Gizzle, had to hand out a couple of Pimp Smizzles. Ahhhh, you can take the Boys out of the Bay, but you can’t take the Bay out of the Boys. A few nights before that, we played 2 nights in Portugal, and man, those fuckers are so crazy, it’s just plain wrong. Biggest circle pit of the tour, HANDS DOWN!!! Fuck!!! Clapping along to “Descend”… singing it SO loud… even as I write it now… just… wow. The connection this record has been making with people over here is really amazing. Dudes running up to me shaking, kissing my hand and telling me “I feel like I’ve known you my whole life”, showing me their MH tattoos and shit. It kinda trips me out. I almost don’t know what to say. I just try and calm them down, tell ’em it’s gonna be alright, tell ’em music affects me the same way, tell ’em they don’t need to put me up on a pedestal like that, tell ’em “You don’t need to kiss my hand… Jeez!” It’s been moving, really, it has been genuinely moving. Without trying to analyze things too deeply, it’s kind of ironic that the record we finally wrote as just music fans again, is the record that’s making the deepest connection to music fans. U.S. situation is this close *holds fingers a quarter inch apart* to being worked out. A couple of surprises came out of nowhere just recently, including an unnamed imprint thru an unnamed major that could be very cool. As soon as we know enough to announce, we will, Head Cases. Until then, looking HELLA forward to rolling thru your city, with half the shows sold out in advance FUCK YEAH!!! We plan on getting ripped with all of you. Our sole purpose is to metal out, drrrrrink your vodka, plunder your cities, and encourage the youth of your country to have promiscuous and consensual sex… in public toilet facilities. ARRRRRRRRRRR!!!!! -Flynn

Here’s what you can find on the EMAP channels this week… Kerrang TV : Murderdolls ‘Love At First Fright’ (#462) Slipknot ‘My Plague’ (#469) Finch ‘Worms Of The Earth’ (#446) K Banned – Post 10 pm Machine Head ‘Imperium’ Q TV Nickelback ‘Someday’ (#521) The Hits Nickelback ‘How You Remind Me’ (#134)

So, you know that the new Dirty Americans album ‘Stange Generation’ will be out March 15, 2004. But did you know, that Jeff and Myron will be in Europe for 11 days starting on Jan 25? Kicking off right here in London, the guys will be embarking on a press tour before the album release. Who knows where they might turn up… In other D-Am news, the band have just confirmed a few more US shows… and they are as follows: Friday, November 28th – Rubble’s, 112 W. Michigan, Mt. Pleasant, MI 18 and over welcome, Tickets: n/a, also appearing: South Normal Saturday, November 29th – Club Soda, 340 E. Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI 18 and over welcome, Tickets: $6 and $8, also appearing: Julius Bragg and Chaise Lounge Tuesday, December 2nd – Showcase for Roadrunner Records, Mercury Lounge, 217 E. Houston Street, New York, NY 21 and over welcome, Tickets: n/a Dirty Americans perform at 7:30pm (212) 260-4700 for more details Friday, December 12th – Peabody’s Down Under, 2083 East 21st Street, Cleveland, OH All ages welcome, Tickets: $7 Saturday, December 13th – The Magic Bag, 22930 Woodward Ave, Ferndale, MI 18 and over welcome, Tickets: $12, also appearing: Gary Hoey headlines Thursday, December 18th – 5th Avenue Downtown, 2100 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 21 and over welcome, Tickets: n/a, also appearing: Seether headlines

So, talking about Roadrage… three things for you this update. Pieces from Spineshank’s Jonny, and Chimaira’s Jim with Ill Nino’s Laz. Without further ado: We asked Jonny Santos, what the top five things were he was most looking forward to going home to. His answers? “1. My children 2. Hot food 3. Warm bed 4. Sex 5. Ice” We also asked him how he hurt his foot… some of you might have noticed a slight hobble on a couple dates at the end of the tour. His answer? “Fighting off 8 samurai ninjas.” It was actually from leaping off speaker stacks and other equipment around the stage, but we like his answer better. Some of you might have also noticed, at the start of the tour Rob Garcia, Spineshank’s bassist, was sporting a plaster cast on his wrist. No stranger to playing with pain, these guys. And so to part three: Chimaira’s James Samuel LaMarca interrogates Lazaro Pina, of Ill Nino. A large in-joke here, we might add. ‘The Book’? Answers on a postcard to… 1. Who wrote the book? “Laz (me).” 2. Who read the book? “Laz (me).” 3. Who is going to write part 2 of the book? “And Laz (me). Jim, you still have a long way to go.”

We’ve lost count which interrogation number this is. Suffice it to say, if you haven’t been paying attention here recently, you will have no idea that during the Roadrage tour, we had the band members themselves, come up with 3 interview questions, for another band member. And we have been presenting them here, daily, amongst other goodness. And today, it is the turn of Matt DeVries from Chimaira, to shine the spotlight into the eyes of Mike Sarkisyan, from Spineshank. Questions by Matt, answers by Mike – both quite tongue-in-cheek we might add. 1. What is your favourite thing to do in your bunk? “Have fun with my toys….” 2. Who has the best dredlocks of the tour? “Rob Garcia (Spineshank).” 3. Why do you love Chimaira so much? “Love? I don’t even like them.”

You’ve seen our Halloween photos of Machine Head in fancy dress playing Dublin by now, right? If not, they are up in the artist gallery… do check them out. If you were at the show, this will be a great reminder of the night…. if you weren’t… see what you missed. Click HERE & scroll down, for 3 live mpg short video clips of the show… and there’s more to come.