The last few days have just been a blur. We finally made our way to the Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse where the Greenroom Festival was being held.
We were so stoked to see that the boards that we had shipped out right before left had safely made it to the show and were waiting for us in a nice stack when we walked in to our booth area.
Unpacking the the boards we discovered that the ceiling height of the space was only about 8 feet, totally killing our plans to display the boards vertically. We brought about eight 9 foot plus boards.
We managed to to freestyle together a novel way to hang the boards horizontal. It works so well that it could be used at home... it's so easy to slip the boards in and out... it's just a series of knots that form a bunch of loops that we tied to the ceiling. So happy with the way the booth looked
The freestyling continued to the hotel room, here Nick has torn apart a razor to use it as an impromptu knife to convert his pants over to shorts.
We joined up with Heather, Chris and Jun and headed out to a small fisherman's bar in the middle of who knows where. Drinks composed of ground of snakes and other not safe ingredients were consumed, leading to an impromptu party in the hotel lobby that lasted until sunrise. Not the smartest thing to do the day before a show but when you're surrounded by friends the time seems to melt away.
Fake tattoos were definitely a hit
It turned out that our "Artist" badges allowed us to get backstage at the music part of the festival. We snuck out of our booth for a couple performances when we found out. It's not everyday that you stand back stage at one of Slightly Stoopid's shows
Later on in the evening, the Drums headlined. We tried standing in the crowd but ended up going backstage again... sitting on the rail drinking beer about 8 feet from the drummer... pretty amazing
Afterwards we hooked up with a few new friends and went to Dinner... and then onto karaoke. It turns out Nick's an amazing Karaoke singer... haha
Day Two at the show was just as packed as the day before. People take their dogs very seriously in Japan... Outfits are the norm for many of the smaller pooches. Here's a pretty cute little guy wearing just as cute of an outfit. Kawaii!!
As the day wore on, boards started going... here's one of my favorites going first
We ended up with 6 of 15 boards left over, we took them back to the hotel with us. They didn't fit in the elevator, here we are taking them up several flights of stairs. 4 boards in that bag... Anyone want to buy a longboard in Japan? Shoot us an email, we're selling them before we leave. -Carl
