DECEPTIVE CLOUD After a fabulous and well timed mid-tour break, it is time to regroup and get back down to business on the road. The weather in the UK and indeed the whole of Europe has been pretty wonderful, and hot. The British contingent met up at the usual North-West London location of a very [...]
LONGEST DAY With Summer’s Solstice upon us already, today was a day of trains, planes and automobiles. Another Gym, Swim session and a repeated attempt at getting online in the room was a dismal failure. I would normally charge down to the front desk and find a solution but the 3G seemed to be getting [...]
XYLEM TECH After the eventful day yesterday, today was the calm after the storm. The only real concern was discovering which pieces of equipment had time to consider their soaking in the truck to Mannheim and decided not to work after all. My mixing desk was one such item. It had clearly taken on board [...]
WETTER WETTER In Dusseldorf this morning, caught out by a brief but heavy shower I sped around the corner to a great little camera shop to look for a few bits. I didn’t think to check the weather for the outdoor show in Mainz this evening. Our hotel checkout was scheduled for 2pm and we [...]
BEER BRATS The North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany is its most populous state and includes several large industrial towns including Dortmund, Dussledorf, Essen, Bochum, Duisburg, Cologne and Bonn. The consequence of this is some quite horrific traffic. There seems to be an abundance of road works and today’s drive from Dusseldorf to Dortmund fell foul [...]
SALIVA MIX Well we’ve done it a few times in the past and often right here in Germany. I am of course talking about 4 cities in one day. Waking, breakfasting and gymming in Copenhagen, we left the D’Anglaterre at 1:30 and drove to Copenhagen airport where we boarded the Legacy which was parked right [...]
TIVOLI TARDIS The Tivoli is the second oldest amusement park in the world dating back to 1843 and in all the years we’ve been coming here, I’ve never visited. It’s a bit of a Tardis to be honest. Once inside, it opens up into another almost miniature world. A few of the guys went earlier [...]
TRAVELING SHOES An Engraving from 1770 of Uppsala's Linnaean garden, and present day... In the wake of poor Dave Grohl’s recent mishap, much of the talk this afternoon was about stage jumping, the risks and perils. With the Edge meandering his way offstage in comical fashion to suicidal leaps across rock’n’roll chasms, we all have [...]
SPEEDY RECOVERY A day off in Oslo in the Summer sunshine should have been a day to get out on a boat for a Fjord cruise, however, that didn’t happen so a very late afternoon stroll with Ianto taking in the sea breeze sufficed. Time has been passing by so quickly on the road this [...]
NORWEGIAN WOOD The mêlée outside the hotel as we departed for the venue. The Norwegian Wood festival is held at the Frognerbadet ("the Frogner Baths”) in Oslo every year. We played here 5 years ago and it was chilly. Today we were prepared, like yesterday, I wore my Galvin Green Golf thermals and when I [...]
