PVSD live 3 days lack of sleep

It’s friday evening and i’m at no regrets tattoo shop getting my neck tattooed. strangely enough im in the chair and im quite relaxed considering its my neck getting needled to hell and back but then i get woken up by the tattooist quadey. I fell asleep i was that relaxed……..not for long. We have a 5 min break then i get a phone call off Dainton “were fucked, were fucked. Just had a phone call off aid (tour manager) and were meant to be on the 10.30pm flight to Kavos Corfu”. We thought it was 6am on the saturday morning but no, it was tonight. i was like “but i’ve got half a tattoo done and i haven’t got my passport”. we all calmed down and realized that it was near impossible to get from cardiff to Gatwic in 2 and a half hours so we then had to re-book our flights for 6am sat morning.

Tattoo done and off home i went and chilled for a bit before i had to go and pick up rob naked (our dj) before Dainton and aid came along for our trip to Gatwic. Our flight is at 5.50am and this time we all managed to get on and make our way to Corfu for our first out of 5 gigs this summer.

We had a residency at the Venue night club last year and it worked that well they got us in for a second year and so far the tickets have been selling like hot cakes. Last years gigs were off the hook and your always guaranteed a good night in Kavos. If you’ve been there before you’ll know what i’m on about. A huge strip which is full of bars and nightclubs which somewhat resembles that of a human zoo. I for one was looking forward to it along with the rest of the team. For our first gig however it was to be short lived as we had to be on stage at 1am and then from stage straight into our car and airport bound to Luton. More on that later.

We arrive into Corfu and as per usual the weather is scorching hot at a whopping 38 degrees so we head off to our hotel in Kavos check in and say hello to all the familiar faces from last year then i spend the day sunbathing with rob naked then go and hit up some bars for a few drinks and onto a hotel with the 20’s reps where we chilled in a jacuzzi all day getting slightly merry. 6pm came so we headed back to the hotel to work on our new set for tonight and the new music we have. We have been doing our old set for quite a few years now so were slowly adding new stunts etc to it for a fresh new start and were looking forward to putting them into practice. As were working the power on the island gets cut off and all electricity gone. everywhere is in darkness and our computer batteries dead, they better turn it on quick or we wont be doing our show. The electricity company are on strike which is why they turn all power off and that cant be good for a holiday destination like Kavos where the strip is full of neon lights and more importantly music. Luckily they only turn it off for 2 hours at a time so as soon as the power went back on all you could hear from one end of Kavos to the next was a wave of cheers and shouting. Were back on.

Into the tattoo shop we go with Jerry (club promoter) as its our back stage chill out room then 1am came and onto the stage we went with a club full to the brim of pissed up brits wanting to see some carnage which they got in abundance. It was a great show and our new stunts went down a treat. off stage and then straight into our car for the airport damn, Do you realize how hard it is to leave Kavos mid party???? fucking hard let me tell you. All i wanted to do was do a tour of the strip and have a good time but our plane was calling so we had to shoot quick fast as we have a load of filming to do today in london for a tennis viral ad.

Its 4am and i haven’t slept since thursday night and by now i’m shattered. I’m sitting on our monarch airways flight next to Daint and into the air we go for our 3 hour flight to luton airport. I manage to get 2 hours sleep before i hear the thud of landing, next stop the millennium hotel at stamford bridge to grab a much needed 3 hours before we get picked up to head to our set for the day.

My wake up call was 10.30am and when it went off i wanted to punch the bloody phone but didnt quite have the energy too. Showered, shit and shaved then into our car for a days filming a tennis advert which i believe will be up and live in a weeks time. As we arrive on set we were shocked to see its a huge budget advert were doing and you name it it was all there. Massive lights, catering, at least 30 staff you name it it was all happening and slightly reminded us of our nike advert we did when we hooked up with Rooney. The good thing about this shoot was that 4 of the staff were all Dirty Sanchez crew. We had James Gurden who was directing today, Martin Roach director of photography, Pete sound and Moncho on camera so it was like a blast from the past. A massive bonus for us as they know how we work and we know how they work which made for a pleasant days filming.

I’ll keep all the best details of what went on today for next week when the advert comes out and will talk more in depth of our day filming to go with advert link. We will also be giving away our tennis white’s for a competition winner. I will however let you know that we headed home black & blue with bruises and one broken finger so as you can imaging it was a memorable day to say the least. We jumped into the tour van home for a much needed rest safe knowing that the last 3 days were one hell of a lot of fun. Cant wait to do it all again.

As they say in Llandow……chow for now

Pritchard

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