 Formed in San Francisco, California in 1999, Rut Host has been touring Europe since April 2000, and has not yet gone back to the USA. The circuit has been Holland, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Lithuania and Poland. Rut Host has three players: Alex on guitar and vocals, J.R. on bass and vocals, and Peter Ffrench on drums. The style is rocket fuel rock featuring a sound connected to Motorhead and the Ramones. Their first CD was recorded in San Francisco before they came to Europe. Their second CD was recorded in Budapest for Nephilim Records, and is distributed in Poland by Boofish Records. Unlike other bands who have the luxury of idle time to write music, Rut Host's continuous touring roll through Europe forces them to pull over and write in bizarre situations. The most recent songs were written in a barracks in Bosnia, a kraak squat in Amsterdam, a krack house in Krakow, and in a bomb shelter in Budapest. The text is about their adventures on the road, such as dealing with border guards, friction with local gangsters, and relentless rolling from city to city as they are robbed, wrecked and debauched. The band's touring has had a major slant towards Eastern Europe, including major festivals in Hungary (Sziget twice) and Serbia (the 34th Guitarrada festival in Zajecar). In Serbia the band had numerous radio and television interviews, and the festival was on national television, which which helped them later get across the border to Bosnia: while they were getting the typical harsh treatment by one border guard, another guard came up and said,
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