The Ebb And The Flow » UK

Manchester/Bristol

Jeremiah Edmond — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:42:19 +0000

Last night after the show Robert downloaded the latest episode of LOST so I really didn’t have time to write or update any photos. We all gathered around his computer on a mattress on the floor in he and Chris’ abnormally large and awkwardly shaped hotel room and watched the episode together. As always we were left spouting off random theories on what could be happening but really just being completely clueless. It was kind of nice watching One Tree Hill today after missing 6 or so episode and being able to catch on to what is going on within a few minutes. Those writers are pretty clever how they make you love and hate certain characters and then totally change you emotions towards them in an episode or two. WB shows are some deep and groundbreaking stuff. Last night’s show was fun. The monitor guy had the balls to fall asleep during our set with his feet up on the console and leaned back against the wall. I watched him for almost 2 songs and then threw my drumstick sleeve at him and hit him smack in the center on the chest. He woke up extremely confused fixed what I asked him to fix and then went back to sleep. After our last full band song I walked to his side of the stage and yelled at him a bit and made sure he was able to keep himself awake for the last song. It was really quite impressive actually. He must have either been very tired, or very talented at sleeping as we are a very loud band live and the light guy had strobes going every single song.I walked around a bit before the show and went into an old Catholic church that was across the street. There was an organist up in the balcony playing a HUGE organ. It was really pretty awesome.Today we drove to Bristol. One Tree Hill along the way as I mentioned earlier. Lucas has been making some bad decisions and Dan is somehow making me think he just MIGHT have a heart and some good in him. MAYBE. I’m just glad Lucas is alive actually. Today was a close call. Tomorrow is a long drive so hopefully I won’t get stuck in the front seat and cal watch more OTH.Tonight show was at this crazy venue that is actually the hull of a big boat that is docked in the harbor. There is a restaurant upstairs and a venue and bar downstairs. A large metal tank isn’t exactly the best place for a good sounding concert but it made for a really cool experience. We had never played in Bristol or really anywhere nearby and somehow had 200+ people come out. Anathallo even had some real fans tonight which was awesome. We ran into some guys from New Mexico that we had met at shows before. They were staying in Spain I think and were in London for a bit and saw we were playing so they took a train to bristol to see the show which was pretty awesome. It must be amazing being able to have that freedom and opportunity to just travel around for fun. Obviously I get to travel alot but always on a strict schedule for work without many chances to just wander around and do things like that on a whim. It would be pretty awesome.Everyone is pretty under the weather still. Bret is actually suffering through an awful cold/fever and I am sharing a bed with him tonight praying that I don’t catch it. I will have to double up on the vitamin that my wonderful wife so thoughtfully bought me so I would stop coming home sick from every trip.Here are a couple photos from the last 2 days

Recap!

Jeremiah Edmond — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:41:09 +0000

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.

UK Day 1 – ATL to IRE

Jeremiah Edmond — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:24:07 +0000

Today, well ..yesterday actually, starts our first international trip of the year. We left Atlanta yesterday afternoon. We were booked on a 5:20 flight but when we arrived they rushed us through check in to put us on an earlier flight to make sure we didn’t miss our connection in Newark. J and I had to run to the plane and got there about 5 minutes before they were scheduled to leave. The flight was packed and hot ad the crew was rude. Newark we very quiet and kind of creepy. We got some dinner and then boarded our flight. Andy and I were in the window and aisle seats of our row and cringed as every passenger neared our row, hoping and praying that they didn’t take the seat in between us. That is always awkward. No body likes the middle seat OR the person sitting in the middle seat. Luckily it ended up being empty which gave us some much needed room on the long flight to Dublin. The flight was pretty uneventful. No good movies or tv. Erin let me borrow her iPod for the trip so I listened to some records and read up on the manual for the new camera we got. The label overnighted it to us and we got it Thursday morning. I am really excited about it. I was getting tired on having no control over the point and shoot and was dreading only having that for the UK and Australia.We all slept the whole day after landing and are now just waking up and getting dinner. I got some room service since no one else was awake yet. Tuna met and fries. Pretty good for over here. Chris and Robert finally woke up and just headed down stairs for some food so I think I am going to head down and have a drink and hang out for a bit.