Victor Bravo After what was for me an incredible day off in Malta, we headed North and back into mainland Italy for our final Italian show of the tour. The day off yesterday was spent doing my favourite thing apart from playing music, Stand Up Paddle Boarding. I had called a chap called Joe [...]
Abort Takeoff With virtually no sleep in the last 36 hours, the crew arrived at the city square in Floriana. It was as you'd expect any Southern European show, hot and dusty but at least there was power unlike in Taormina the day before where the local electrician failed to show up at load [...]
Moonlit Arena Most tours reach a point where it feels like you have arrived at a summit, Taormina in Sicily has that feel to it. Certainly the most beautiful location of the trip so far, the picturesque small town on the East coast of Sicily is everything it's advertised as. We arrived to a [...]
Napoli Night Mike's Uilleann pipes... Any show day in Naples is eventful and today was no exception. Southern Italy is truly beautiful, but this land is also terribly burdened by economic and social problems. Due to a rather typical Neapolitan political situation, our planned travel after show had to be modified. The Rome sunshine [...]
Bellissima Notte With the tour fast moving towards its final stages, the desire for exploration and general sightseeing activity is all but diminished and when your hotel room has a balcony and the sun is guaranteed, it's a no-brainer. When we assemble outside the hotel to leave for the venue, the guys ask [...]
Amiamo l'Italia Occasionally, I have to really sit and think hard about how the day started, the memory banks being what they are and all that. This was one of those days. Breakfast in Milano was in-room and once diary duties were out of the way, my mission was to head out and about [...]
Hail Milano Back in Italy almost two months after first coming here on the same tour the weather is noticeably warmer. In fact it's hot. Hot enough for storms to bubble up the afternoon of our day off in Milan, one did. I was at the computer after hitting the gym pretty hard in the [...]
Beast Fighters I couldn't quite make up my mind if we were moving on into France or Italy today. Everything about the final destination, a second visit of the tour to the Four Seasons, Milan, said Italy. Yet first there was the small matter of a gig, no ordinary gig as it happens. After a [...]
Farewell Nigel (for now) The final show in another run of five-in-a-row took us to the cradle of the motor car, Stuttgart. Home to Mercedes Benz and the beloved Porsche, Stuttgart is a densely populated area interlinked and surrounded by a series of smaller towns. Of course Stuttgart offers so much more than just the [...]
Teutonic Knights It's 2pm and as is so often the case when touring, we have to leave, just when we're getting to know the place. Our stay in Dresden has been all too brief but we're on a tight schedule and have to be in a place called Bad Mergentheim in 2 hours. No problem. [...]
