CRADLE OF FILTH vocalist Dani Filth has updated his tour blog, an excerpt follows:

"The next morning is an early departure for the stage to sound check before the festival gets under way for its second day, unfortunately no one seems to have told the local stage crew who all appear to be breakfasting, thus leaving everything in the Crewdle's capable, but overworked hands. This results in some trouble later when we hit the stage having had no sound check (though not for the want of trying) to find that the in-ear channel on the desk is utterly fucked, resulting in the first couple of songs being a right royal nightmare for me, as I can't hear bo diddly squat."

"Prior to this the rest of the day is spent wandering around the picturesque gig site dodging low flying dragonflies and enjoying the sun before twenty thousand odd punters descend on it; and eating and sleeping. We're not on until eleven o'clock in the evening (as we're headlining the entire thing), so it's nice to take things easy for the afternoon and escape the incessant heat and even more incessant fans that flock the hotel with their ceedees and album covers poised to strike.

Lunch and dinner are both taken in the hotel dining area which overlooks the pool and sculpted garden, though both events are marred by a dodgy stomach which at first is loose, then painfully blocked, once the medicines I've taken kick in. Just before leaving for the show I'm desperately trying to pass a poo baby in my hotel room between bouts of making-up, and I just manage to literally get my shit together before heading out across the park to the backstage where our tent resides."

"I mentioned the problems on stage earlier, made all the worse for the fact that it is being televised and that there are thousands of Cradle fans here. Still, the Crewdle are astonishingly astute when it comes to near-disasters and Matt our sound guy, having conquered the audio, scoots from front-of-house to aid Asti with the in-ear channel dilemma and soon all is well again with the world. By song three, 'For Your Vulgar Delectation', we're back in the driving seat and the show roars along a treat. The crowd is strangely subdued for such a huge audience (aside from the circle pits that whirl and eddy five or six rows back) but as it transpires this is because they are truly intent on watching the performance above all else -which is amazing- and on our return to the hotel we're mobbed again as we descend to the bar to hang out with CANNIBAL CORPSE and a fleet of Australians who have played just before us and are already halfway to getting battered."

To read Dani's blog in its entirety, click here.

Catch Cradle Of Filth live at the following shows:

May

3 - KHS Hall - Taipei, Taiwan
5 - Rolling Hall - Seoul, Korea
9 - Hifi - Brisbane, Australia
10 - Palace Theatre - Melbourne, Australia
11 - The Hi-Fi - Sydney, Australia
12 - Metropolis - Fremantle, Australia

June

15 - Novarock - Nickelsdorf, Austria
23 - Hellfest - Clisson, France
29 - Hi-Voltage - Istanbul, Turkey