Clowns recently wrapped up a whirlwind tour of Europe and it looks like things went pretty well for the Melbourne punk outfit, who headed over to the continent after they were tapped to play Belgium’s massive Groezrock punk festival.

Things got off to a characteristically Clowns-esque start, with the band getting so drunk on their flight over that guitarist Goon had a bit of a spell and had to be taken care of by the plane’s flight attendants.

“We drank heaps of beers on the plane and then Goon fainted in the aisle. Off to a good start!” the band wrote on their official Facebook page, accompanied by a photo of Goon reclining on the aeroplane floor breathing in oxygen from a tank.

According to an interview bass player James recently did with Unbelievably Bad, the band’s shenanigans did not end once the plane touched down. The rhythm man recounted a tale involving a whole bunch of weed and some border patrol guards.

“The dude at the bar we played at in Lucerne gave us a whole lot of weed but we got told not to take shit like that over the border from Switzerland into Germany,” said James. “In the morning we still had a heap leftover so we had dump it just before border check.”

“But then they just waved us straight through without stopping us, or anyone even batting an eyelid. That was pretty bullshit. I also had an incident at Groezrock where I did a very drunken and clumsy stage dive when DAG NASTY busted out a cover of ‘Little Friend’ by Minor Threat.”

“I did it right before that pause bit after the line ‘That’s as close as you get!’ but I had my ankle caught in Brian Baker’s guitar lead and ripped it right out of his guitar as soon as I jumped. The show was stopped for a good 20 seconds, which I thought was pretty funny.”

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You can check out the full interview here, in which James also goes into the band’s double life as world-beating road dogs and part-time wage slaves. “We’re just really lucky. We are young and stupid and don’t know the difference between good life choices and poor life choices yet,” he said.

“We all work crappy, flexible jobs that somehow keep us employed when we come back from tour, which is amazing. We aren’t full-time road dogs yet, but I guess as soon as one of our employers finally pulls the pin on our poor work attendance, then that’ll be the case.”

“I’ve heard Centrelink is pretty cool for hesh dogs who play in bands, so that’s always a good fallback plan.”

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