Rollins's Get in the Van meets Bidini's On a Cold Road in an original
fever dream While touring Europe, Eamon McGrath wrestled with one of the
biggest questions on the mind of any touring artist: should you suffer
for your art? The pain and heartache that goes along with a working
musician's lifestyle must serve as a means to some kind of cathartic
end, McGrath argues -- otherwise that torment served no purpose. In
Berlin-Warszawa Express, McGrath fictionalizes experiences from his life
and the lives of his peers to seek out meaning and significance in the
tumultuous and emotional experience of living on the road. From boozy
techno-fied weekends in Berlin, to punk squats in Prague, to the
alleyways and barrooms of Vienna, McGrath chronicles the dramatic
changes in emotion and culture occurring on both sides of the train
window in this raucous debut.