Recap!

It has been too many days since I have really written here. The goal is to write every day on the road which has proven difficult. Once we get back to the hotels it is always late and I am exhausted and some of the time there is no internet. Very few of the venues have internet access and to use the internet on my phone costs a fortune over here. So here is a quick recap of the last few days.

Dublin –  The first show day of the tour and the first day meeting up with Anathallo. The show was at a place called Crawdaddy. The rest of the band played there before when I was on my  break for the wedding. It is a small but pretty cool room. The crowd was great and loved Anathallo. I know I have said this already but having them here with us is just amazing. It has made this trip so much better than any other time we have been here. The new songs are mind blowing. 

Glasgow – We woke up early and took took a ferry to Scotland. Its a huge ferry with restaurants and an arcade and shop in it. Unfortunately it was a really nasty day so you could see out very far at all. On the rest of the drive we started watching the last few episodes of Gilmore Girls. We started it last UK tour and over the break the rest of the guys watched almost the whole series. I don’t remember the name of the venue we played at but it was in part of an old church or something. Our dressing room was the private dining room of the owner so there were leather couches ada huge banquette table and a mounted dear head and a piano and al sorts of fancy stuff. I wish every dressing room was like that.  Andy’s monitor was really messed up and was feeding back at him all night killing his ears. Other than that it was a pretty good show.  

Leeds – We finished Gilmore Girls. There were a few shocks. Over all an OK ending. Nothing amazing though.  We played at The Cockpit. The crowd was amazing It was packed all night. A good number of Anathallo fans were there which is awesome. We didn’t expect to have such a great turnout in Leeds. This was the first show we had any merchandise to sell and Jamie and Rachael who handle most all of our street team stuff in the UK have been coming along selling for us which has bee a huge help. They are great people. 

Birmingham – We showed up at The Barfly pretty early for load in. The room was pretty cool but the backstage area used to be a morgue so it was freezing and there were barely any lights or seats which made for a very uncomfortable place to hang out. Luckily we were in a pretty cool are of town so we all spent a good bit of time wandering around. The were a great vintage clothing store right around the corner that we all went shopping at. If you walked a bit further down the road there was al old 16th century church and then right next to it was a huge mall that looked like a spaceship. It was such a strange visual. The show ended up being decent. The crowd wasn’t huge  but they were responsive and merch sold well. Afterwards it turned into a club that was having 90’s night so a few of us stayed for a few hours and danced and made fools of ourselves. It is strange not knowing any of the songs that were obviously HUGE here.  

London – We started watching One Tree Hill today. Yes, another WB show. WB DVD’s seem to be the only thing that work in the DVD player we have because of the region codes.  They also are very cheap DVD sets. The first few episodes have us hooked. Tonight’s show was at Scala which we played on our first London trip in March. We upgraded to the larger room which luckily was lower in the building. Last time we had to go up 6 flights of stairs with all of our gear. The turnout was pretty good and the crowd was great. Anathallo was amazing The crowd loved them also. We got to see Bex, who is our booking agent in the UK which is always nice. We also got to catch up with some other friends and people from the label and such. Tomorrow we drive to Manchester for an XFM radio performance. No show tomorrow night which will be nice. We all are ready for some downtime and a good night of sleep. We have a 4 hour drive so that means we will get in a good disc or two of One Tree Hill.  I added Anathallo’s blog to my blog roll. It’s called You Happy Makes Me Go Oldies. Check it out.I will add a bunch of photos tomorrow. I need to get some sleep now. My throat is a little soar and I really don’t want to get sick.    

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