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Sunday, October 5th, 2008How silly of me to think getting home would mean quiet times! Since the tour finished I have travelled to Suffolk, Gloucester, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Preston and Stoke on Trent, playing and filming and visiting and all sorts of very enjoyable things.
London has been fun too. Although I missed out on being a marshal [...]
s(O)an f(REAKIN’)ran c(OOL)isco :::
Friday, September 19th, 2008San Francisco: the last stop of the tour and one of the places I’d been looking forward to the most, thanks to hearty recommendations from Mike and Jess. It’s a shame I didn’t turn up til mid afternoon on gig day, exhausted from my LA fun, but I found pleasure in photographing the amazing [...]
los angeles :::
Friday, September 19th, 2008Two songs stuck in my head in the five days I spent in California. Not even whole songs, really, just two of the most annoying snippets of the songs concerned, which I couldn’t help but sing in comedy voices at various points throughout the day. Yep, out loud.
Song one was ‘California’ by Phantom [...]
i heart toronto :::
Saturday, September 13th, 2008My second trip to Toronto was even shorter than my first. A year and a half ago I went over for three days with Lil’ Chris to play shows in The Mod Club and in Hamilton, a town just outside the city. I had a great time trudging through crisp white snow, enjoying [...]
washington - cleveland - chicago :::
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Washington was wet. Big raindrops, you know, the ones that feel fat and glutinous as they break and splash over your face, soaking your clothes in seconds. I stayed in the tour bus as long as possible before sprinting the few feet to the dry venue to get some washing done, eat lovely [...]
philly :::
Sunday, September 7th, 2008Philly was baking hot and full of food. The gig was in the heart of busy Chinatown, and there was no time to venture any further afield than Reading Terminal Market, home to a frankly dizzying array of food concessions. A wild mushroom quesadilla from Down Home Diner set me up for a [...]
nyc - hilfiger / letterman / ink :::
Sunday, September 7th, 2008If I wait to find time to write the second half of this post before blogging anything about the US tour I’m on at the moment I’ll be waiting a long time, so to hell with chronology and hello to blogging as and when I get the time.
NYC is always a blur (in a good [...]