......so you feel like you're coming home every night...aaahh. Yes, we've 9 days of UK fun ahead of us, playing many of the same venues we did on the belle and sebastian tour.
The last 6 days have been tiring but fun. The drive to Oslo was long and snowy and it was dark when we got there. We shuffled like penguins along the icy pavements being careful not to fall over. Of course the next day i fell over and hurt my knee quite badly. Had a bit of a limp for a few days but its ok now, just a bit of bruising. Feeling cold and sorry for myself i went into oslo centre and bought a jumper. When we re-grouped later that afternoon it transpired that eamon had also bought a jumper. Managed to get a good round of bowling in before the gig. Ten pin is quickly becoming brakes' sport of choice, definitely for these winter months anyway. The gig was a hoot, id say as good if not better than stockholm.
We made it just in time the next day in Copenhagen, the venue was huge and very beautiful in a thirties style, lots of black and white tiling and symmetry. Watched editors from the balcony which was closed off to the public. They were very loud but apparently not as loud as us, i was impressed anyway, their songs are growing on me and the light show is very pretty.
The next day, in Bochum, we did not make it in time, well we got there when we were suposed to go on. The promoter wasn't too happy and the crowd were a little impatient. We'd been given a dubious map you see and it had got us very lost. Eamon eventually got the directions from an art school. I broke a string which stressed me out even more than i was already. We just about scraped through i think.
Eindhoven reminded me of Groenigen with its big market square and old churches. We had a bit of time to spare so on failing to locate a nearby bowling rink, we opted for a nice coffee shop and got stoned. A little too stoned perhaps as none of us said much for the rest of the day. Tried out some new intro music of Sun O, an american apocalyptic noise ensemble whose album that tom bought is specifically designed to be played very loud and very bassy. We thought we'd see if we coud make the audience hallucinate before our gig. Gig was ok, we was a bit stoned innit!
Back to blighty the next day and we just made it onto our designated ferry that was running late anyway. We were disappointed once we got to the Astoria to find that Richard Hawley had pulled out due to illness. So we took his slot and played a blinder. I was somewhat daunted at first having not played there before but i got into it once id reminded myself that it was a speck of a venue compared to the hammersmith apollo.
I left shortly after our set to go and watch some friends of mine, The Young Playthings play at the Metro club. They were sweet and it was good to watch a band who weren't editors or belle and sebastian. Other than the chalets, they were the only band ive seen in the last two months. Going to see Silver Jews in glasgow in april so ive got that to look forward too.
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