Every week, 30 Seconds To Mars will be blogging their touring adventures for MTV Transmission. Here’s what the boys are up to this week!

This Week

The string of shows continue as Thirty Seconds To Mars returned to Germany for Ringlokschuppen, then traveling to Switzerland for the Open Air Festival, and stopping in the Netherlands for the TMF Awards. Yesterday, Mars played Rock A Field in Luxembourg, and will head to France this week for two nights before heading to Belgium and Italy for two additional festivals!

Don’t forget: Mars will be returning to the international front for a series of shows this fall late November/early December. See what dates have been added for the UK and Germany by visiting the official Tour Page today! For more information or to purchase available Golden Ticket To Mars Packages, click here.

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Tues, June 29 – France (Toulouse, Bikini)

Weds, June 30 – France (La Cooperative de Mai)

Fri, July 2 – Werchter, Belgium (Rock Werchter Festival )

Sun, July 4 – Venice, Italy (Heineken Jammin Festival)

Am I turning into a European???

The water tastes normal. The food is great. The people don’t even have accents anymore! Things are getting weird…but I like it.

After a very pagan like bombastic and beautiful set in the trees at Provinsirock in Finland (where the sun actually went down and came up again during out set), we took planes, trains, buses, cars, and finally our feet to get to… Gothenburg, Sweden.

I walked all over town, a place from another time, and incredibly, a perfect rainbow came out as I was heading towards the even older part of the city. Awwwww aint it purty…

I’ve been on a mission to find the best food in each city. And I have been getting pretty damn lucky. Whoever talks sheet about the food in europe doesn’t know what they r talking about! In Gothenburg Sweden I went to an amazing restaurant called Sjo Baren (Sea Bar) and the next day I found an another gem called Happy Monkey. Damn that monkey was sweet. On the road good food=sanity.

Pier Pressure was a crazy night. Midnight madness reigns so theirs something in the air. I went and watched The Sounds for a bit. Great band and the singer Maja is the real Mccoy. Saw them yeeeaars ago in vegas in front of 30 people and they were explosive. Still are.

Day off in Copenhagen the next day. Did lots of work but also got a chance to walk around a different part of the city than I had before. Some of the guys checked out a bohemian area called Christiania but I stuck to the art galleries. Was wandering around late night looking for food and after find about 10 places closed for the night I stumbled this second floor den hidden away called Oeback Restaurant. We forced our way inside and literally begged them to serve us. Ended up eating some of the best grub I’ve ever had. Lars, the chef, is a bespeckled genius and every dish was amazing.

Bielefeld, was our last headlining show in Germany for a while all. Sad but true. But the good news is we are Oberhausen arena in December! The place holds 15 thousand people or something crazy. Surreal.

The German soccer team won their game that same night and the sound on the streets was deafening…they sure do love their ‘futbol’ here. Europe is on mthrfkn fire for these games!

Made a pit stop in Halle and Cologne for some intimate acoustic sets and now I am on the bus in Switzerland writing this after a incredible night at the Open Air festival. Shared the stage with The Strokes, LCD soundsystem and just around the corner Paramore played. Fun day. Besides being park 30 feet from the waste and water recycling plant its a beautiful night.

P.S. Met Julian from The Strokes and Haley from Paramore. What a nice guy…and she’s even more beautiful in person.

See you soon…

- j

This was taken in the city of Copenhagen on my day off, beautiful spot with resturaunts on either side. Had a great dinner there! Touring continues to be exciting pushing ourselfs more and more!

- Shannon

Germany is such an amazing place. We have been here over 7 times on this trip alone, and it never seems to get old. Slowly but surely we are becoming a German band!

I took this quick snapshot from the balcony of the 1Live Radio station in Cologne Germany, and was very quickly reminded once again how amazing our family of friends and weirdos out there really is. We were doing an acoustic performance at the station on this day and all of these people came together and organized themselves to create this enormous triad! So cool looking from up high so I had to grab a shot.

Its nice to be surrounded by people who are just as strange as you are, thanks echelon! 

- Tomo

Here’s a shot direct from Brad of Canada, who sports this duo-toned hawk. Do YOU have a MarsHawk? Send your photo, name, and location to themarshawk@gmail.com for a chance to be featured in the next installment of Transmission!

Echelon of Spain recently gathered together to take part in their very own version of The Ride appropriately titled, “The White Ride”, sporting white gear and Triad flags while biking through their city.

Meanwhile… Echelon of Sweden used Official printable flyers to spread the word about forthcoming Mars shows in their country. Thank you all!

WEEKLY PICKS FROM THE BAND

Book of the Week

Naked in Dangerous Places details the successes and failures of author Cash Peters after his experience as the host of a reality television program Stranded, and has been described to illustrate “…one hilarious descent into madness after another.”

Movie of the Week

It’s Complicated is a 2009  American romantic comedy film written and directed by Nancy Meyers, starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, and tells the story of Jane, a self-reliant divorcée who owns a successful bakery in Santa Barbara, California. After 10 years of separation and three grown children, she finally achieves a good relationship with her ex-husband Jake, a successful attorney who’s now married to a much-younger woman.

Album of the Week

All Things to All People is the second album from Danish electronic rock band Carpark North. The name “Carpark North” was created from the electro and rock genres: “Carpark” stands for car parks, edges, roughness, metal – the rock part, and “North” stands for northern lights, stars ethereal electronics.

Website of the Week

Nearly 20,000 foster care teens “age-out” of the foster care system each year. Once they reach 18, their state and foster families are no longer required to give them assistance. They are left to fend for themselves. The mission of the Stay Off The Streets Fund is to support youth charities which provide structured programs for foster care teenagers transitioning into adulthood.

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Hr 2 of 5: July 11 @ 8pm (WIB)/9pm (SIN/HK/PH)/ 10pm (MAL)

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MTV World Stage 30 Seconds to Mars

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