FLYING RIZZLAS Another Bank Holiday weekend in London and the city seems busy beyond belief. After a sumptuous breakfast (almost perfect) at the Beaumont I found myself on the streets and a quick visit to a camera shop before we met up with the VW’s and our afternoon run up to Birmingham. The Sat-Nav predicted [...]

GARDEN GNOME Leaving home at 1pm should have left ample time to get to the venue for 4 o'clock but the mistake was to not factor in the bank holiday weekend traffic. Coming across London from the West was nothing short of miserable. Nigel and I travelled together and were significantly late for our 4:30 [...]

LOCAL HERO After a humble breakfast at the hotel du Vin on the quayside, I think most of the band vegetated in their rooms until sound check call time. I know Mark and Glenn went for a wander in the crisp sunshine whilst I napped, catching up on sleep missed. Newcastle is a mere 150 [...]

GIE IT LALDY The first day off of this tour and we found ourselves in the home of golf and I wasn’t about to waste the opportunity. On the face of it, the weather looked pretty miserable but in-depth analysis revealed that North Berwick might see a fair amount of sunshine through the day. I [...]

ROBIN'S LEGACY As I exited the lift to meet the band in the lobby for departure, I was greeted by a hoard of roped-off Manchester United fans inside and outside the hotel waiting eagerly for their young, skinny idols to leave their rooms and head to their waiting bus to take them to Old Trafford [...]

PUDDING PORN The older one gets, the more value is attached to health and wellbeing…or at least with the whole tour ahead of us, it is at the moment. The room of pain, torture and humiliation awaited me this morning and pulling the new Brooks running shoes out of the shiny new Briggs and Riley [...]

GUINNESS CAKE No amount of preparation can ready you for what lies ahead on that stage on any given ‘first show’ of a tour. We rehearsed, well I think, and even did a warm up show in Elstree but stepping up onto the stage in Dublin at what will always be referred to as The [...]

Fourteen years have passed since I first put tentative finger to chunky laptop to bring to you a glimpse of our world of music, fun, food and travel. Since 2001, the internet has become a huge part of all our lives and that objectionable word ‘blog’ is now familiar to us all but I still [...]