I’ve thought it over plenty how I should end this thing. Was thinking about doing a wrap up where I re-charted the dates and covered the whole five weeks in a tidy summary. Also wanted to do something where I included all the stories I forgot—Graeme’s love adventures, our days off at Sim’s farmhouse […]

Act I.
When we were in Leicester in Paul’s studio recording “Become an Island” we watched this:

I don’t own a computer and I’m not up on new internet shit, so as far as I know this might be old and everyone might be sick to death of it. Regardless, I like it and hope the […]

Tonight we play in Aldershot, which is close to Stonehenge. Even closer is the hotel we’re staying at (three fucking miles away!) Obviously it hasn’t happened yet, but from the get-go I decided Stonehenge would be the best part of tour. (Plan is to sneak in late at night, juiced up on the homemade elderberry […]

Day off today, and I’m sitting around Hamm’s reading the stack of books I bought before our last show in Tunbridge Wells. Tomorrow we play High Wycombe, and I’m ready for it, ready for not feeling (and being) idle. I was just typing an email where I said some nonsense about long tours being […]

It’s half past six now, and I’m sitting in the pale haze of sun coming over the house-tops and church spires of Oxford. It’s a cold day, and the street is filled with tourists in parkas, Indian women pushing strollers behind their husbands, a whole mess of students and commuters, old men with Darwin […]