We were just getting into the swing of things on the road as we got to Cardiff, feeling a little run down...but the kind of run-down that makes you feel like.."hrmm, yeah...we must be doing something right to be this tired, or we're just real idiots".
Our Cardiff venue was siiiick. A place called Tommy's Bar on the Campus of the uni, where they were holding a few SWN festival dates. It was intimate, cheap and had a nicely challenging ITbox that we spent an hour or so on with a fellow from a radio station in Wales.
That night was personally my favourite of the line-ups we'd played on, first on were Lucky Delucci - who were kind of like a modern B-52's and real fun to listen to. Following them were Tim and Sam's Tim and The Sam Band with Tim and Sam... who were burrriillliiaaaiinnnttt
and used a squeeze box and everything.
After them was Swedish Pelle Carlberg who had a lovely song about the drummer from the smiths. Post-Pelle, we all bought a Tim and Sam band t-shirt and took to the stage as 'Tim and Sam's Tim and The Sam Band with Tim and Sam's Tribute Band (with Tim and Sam)'
really nice crowd reception that night. And lovely lass from The School/Loose Promotions put us up at hers for the night.
After a lovely morning in Cardiff, we shot down a nice road i forget the number of.
It was definately nice though.
We got to London early and had a wee bite to eat in Hoxton square while i tried to work up the courage to ask a lady in a sandwich shop to marry me. After the ceremony, we discovered that our venue had been moved at very late notice...
Downstairs from The Motherbar (on old street, shoreditch) to the 333. The 333 was a bit of a rave cave, and when we arrived there were shitloads of feathers everywhere. Us and 'Python Lost' were greeted by a strange fellow who said 'well there's 9 of you, you should have cleaned this all up by now!'. The whole thing was a bit of a joke. Nobody knew what they were doing. The PA wasn't switched on, and soundchecking took us about an hour per band. Feeling horribly sorry for the promoter (Nick From YellowBlack) who was great, we played as best we could and scurried back to Norwich to prepare for the weekend. Thanks to everyone who came to see us (notably David Gray, Asim and Nick Jensen) and sorry for the conditions and the price of bloody booze...
After returning to our beloved beds in Norwich... we learned early in the morning that Katie's illness (that we'd all been having throughout) has escalated to the point her head had fallen off. Unable to find any pritt stick, sadly we had to cancel our last 2 dates in Bradford and Shrewsbury...which was bloody annoying as we were mega looking forward to both. We'll be back with you both soon though.
Thus concludes our tour adventure man
Look our for mine and rory's characters on puzzle pirates by the way, we can trade bandanas and eye patches
xxxxxxx Love, Fab-Kabeedie
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