CRADLE OF FILTH vocalist Dani Filth has updated his tour blog. An excerpt is available below:

"The Hell-born in Melbourne.

Another early flight, another hotel that we manage to quickly drop our stuff into before heading to the venue. Except that for once I decide to crash out for a few hours and hook up with the band later, as I'm feeling pretty bloody exhausted. Truth be told I'd make a shit vampire anyway, as I find it near impossible to sleep during the day!

A few hours in and out of a restless, haunted slumber later, its off to the venue which is down town in a rather cool club with labyrinthine backstage corridors, parked right next door to a strip joint advertising, in true metal fashion, 'Girls, Girls, Girls!'

Our dressing room is upstairs and affords a view over the venue which is novel but with a two-way issue. We can see out over the stage and floor space, and everyone and their dog can see back in. Still, it makes for a change and there is certainly plenty of room in any number of bathrooms, cloakrooms and corridors that wind about this place to retreat to like big fat spiders if the thought of being in a fish tank all night does not impress.

Sound check goes well, then I'm off to do a bunch of press whilst everybody else goes out to eat. I did feel sorry for myself for about two minutes, but that was until hooking up with the journalists and film people who were all a really good laugh, making for some quirky and hopefully entertaining interview footage. Plus I got to do a bit of socialising for once before a show.

Most of the promotion team were here tonight amid friends who've come out to see us, so the backstage is fairly busy up until we go on, as the photo I've posted earlier is online is testament to. Being able to watch the show from the large window of the dressing room also helped build up the atmosphere of the show, as there are just shy of eight hundred rabid fans gathered below.

The show is fuelled by their enthusiasm and both support acts, Neobliviscaris and The Amenta are superb, the former a strange hybrid of goth and black metal punctuated by melodic and shrieking vocals, violin and some classic heavy metal guitar riffs; the latter being a stranger hybrid of black, death and industrial metal, their new track 'Flesh Is Heir' being monumental.

I suppose it being a Friday night also helps, as well as the fact that Australians are renowned for their ingesting of booze, as the crowd are pretty crazy this evening, with more than a few stage-divers making it up despite the heavy bouncer presence. The only thing I'm not liking about these shows is that they're all Over Eighteen, obviously rendering the crowd a tad youth-free. Wait, that's something Rolf Harris would express! What I meant to say is that there are younger fans who miss out just because of a few years age difference.

The pit tonight is rife for tracks such as 'For Your Vulgar Delectation' (the video of this should be out now), 'Summer Dying Fast' and 'Born In A Burial Gown' and thus far this is one of my favourite shows of the tour, as its just so damn invigorating. I am also loving the set we're playing which is a perfect length, with the perfect blend of songs from all walks of Cradle, from the old to the new. As a band we're also mastering the chills and climaxes of the show now, and it'll be a shame to have to wait another month after these dates have ended to play together again at the festivals. Ah well...

The gig finishes to fervent uproar and there is time tonight to just chillax after the show for about an hour with friends and fans alike that are still left in the club, before heading back to the hotel to hang my trousers out of the window to dry."

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Catch Cradle Of Filth live at the following shows:

June

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