Hivemind Times Issue #72

Welcome To The Hivemind Times!

Hello my fellow humans. Graydon from the Youtube channel here. Reporting somewhat live from HQ in the frozen tundra of Detroit. 

Although they’ve tried to stop us from releasing quality programming we have yet again proved everyone wrong. We dropped NFL power rankings, NFL trivia, and a new hot and steamy best tweets tier list. Who knows maybe there’s another Brandon video in the chamber?! So suck on that one overlords. 

Got a fire Cronk update about a young man’s experience in Europe. I’ll pack it full of some good tunes for you to ease the pain of these dreary winter days and maybe some other fun stuff from the gang will appear. 

Either way thanks for always rocking with us and have a dope ass weekend.

- Riley & Graydon

CRONK’S UPDATE

Good morning good people of Hivemind newsletter, today I’ll be telling you about Europe.

Last month me, Rozey, Tommy Fleece, Copes, and Copes’ trusty companion Sean set out to sail to Europe to open for Quadeca. I have never been to Europe but my grandparents are from Macedonia and I've been hearing about the old country my whole life.

BERLIN, GERMANY

I departed from Detroit at about 8pm, and landed in Amsterdam at 11am for the connecting flight. I had the middle seat and everyone was smashed with winter coats and the overhead compartments were way overfilled, was kinda rough but I was so excited it didn’t even matter.

I watched the movie Euro Trip on the way, then I took a short flight out of Amsterdam and landed in Berlin at 1pm. I was expecting to be in a complete different world, ready for no one to understand English. The stupid American in me was quite shocked to hear “This Love” by Maroon 5 blasting in the airport. I quickly realised most people understand English and it’s quite easy to navigate the city. I took the public transport to the Airbnb and was pleasantly surprised by how I didn’t even have to pay to get on it.

We had a couple days to explore Berlin and holy shit it was gloomy, you could really feel that Berlin Wall aura. Also we got turned away by two clubs that kinda sucked. Show was great. Doner kabobs were fucking amazing. Probably the least fun city though.

COLOGNE, GERMANY

We rented a car, drove 5 hours from Berlin to Cologne. The drive was beautiful, the Autobahn rocked. Show was really good, kabob wasn’t nearly as good as Berlin. We didn’t have much time to explore. The next day we had to swiftly head to the train station which was conveniently next to the like an 800 year old cathedral that was fucking massive and the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life. But we almost missed our train to Amsterdam.

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

We all knew Amsterdam was gonna be fucking sick, the 3 hour train was lovely. We stepped off in the heart of Amsterdam and felt like we were actually in Europe and Germany was just a fever dream. We had a couple days to explore the city - red light district was cool but weird but also really normal. It’s just kinda in the middle of everything you have to walk through if you’re getting food or going anywhere really. The show rocked, the city rocked, we had a blast.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

After having an absolute blast we embarked on a treacherous 1 hour flight to London, it took hours to get through the Amsterdam airport. We were so beat by the time we made it to London I was falling asleep sitting up, I was taking Dramamine for the flights and trains and at this point in the trip I realised it was really making me sleepy every day. 

We went to a pub in London where everyone was dancing, but we liked garage rock like The White Stripes and The Strokes. Definitely some shit that doesn't happen at any bars in Detroit. The city of London was beautiful, definitely has mojo and I want to go back real bad. The show was great, tho I broke Quadeca’s drummer’s snare drum head, they had a backup tho I felt real bad about it.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND OR UK???? IDK

Traveling from London to Scotland was my favorite part of the trip. We rode on Quadeca’s tour bus with the rest of the crew, it was a double decker it was fucking rad. I got to sleep in a tour bus bunk which was like a bucket list thing for me. We drove from 2am to about 2pm, we stopped at allegedly the best truck stop in Scotland where we had a proper English breakfast with blood sausage, beans and toast. It rocked. 

We stepped off the bus in Glasgow and felt like we were in Detroit, the people of Glasgow were all ecstatic to hear we were from Detroit as Motown music is big there. Glasgow easily had the funniest, most nice people out of any of the cities we stopped at. Show was in an old church that had the best pub in town attached, food was great, sound was good, was easily 100 degrees in that venue, holy shit the air was thick.

DUBLIN, IRELAND

We were also blessed with joining Quadeca and his crew on their bus from Glasgow to Dublin. We took a ferry to Ireland at like 6am, the ocean was a bit treacherous. The whole crew was pretty much motion sick besides for Tommy and Sean who found the free PS4 station inside the ferry (it was pretty much a cruise ship), they ripped FIFA the whole time we were on the ferry. 

After a few more hours on the bus we had made it to our final stop in Dublin. We played the show, it was awesome. We had to sell out merch outside though because of some stipulations with the venue, we strapped a big sign on Tommy and had him breakdancing outside the front doors of the venue pointing to me and Sean down the block with a box of shirts. We sold all of the merch we had left. We didn’t spend too much time in Dublin, but it was also cool. Probably the rawest city we went to, felt like you could really get up to some shit there. Then the next morning me and Tommy left to go back to Detroit, where it took us almost a full 24 hours to get home.

Europe 10/10 would do it again, I had a great time meeting all the Hivemind fans, you all fucking rocked. Everyone in Europe is 100x cooler than America no doubt.

- Cronk

OK FINE WHO’S WINNING THE SUPER BOWL.

ALBUM RECS

Got a couple full album experiences for ya - hopefully some shit you aint never heard.

Ok I’ve read your concerns and I listened. I don’t suggest enough Hungarian folk from the late sixties. Here let Gabor Szabo tickle your ears with masterful guitar work reminiscent of George Benson at times with a rootsier home base.

Only a couple years later this here man Bobb Charles went dummy folk mode. A soft and magical vocalist who can make you feel like a new born child and an old person who has lived several lives simultaneously.

Ok fuck it, now that you’re all introspective and thoughts provoked try on some absolute blow torch funk.

- Graydon

MERCH