Biscuits, Burgers, Bananas

Monday, September 10th, 2007

The trouble with gigs that go well is that it just makes going back to the day job that extra bit more unpleasant.

Monday mornings are bad enough at the best of times, but when you’ve spent the last few days doing what you’d much rather be doing full-time, the idea of sitting in an office for eight hours doesn’t appeal much.

The Brighton gig last night was great. It was our first gig there, but a lot of the crowd were singing along, and the people of Brighton definitely win the award for best dancing of the tour so far. It was a nice little nostalgia trip to go back to Brighton – Toby and I have got a lot of good memories from gigs with our previous band. Disappointingly, I didn’t have time to go to Grubb’s Burgers, but we were able to feed the jukebox at the Heart and Hand. And there were Oreo cookies on the rider.

Still, we’ve got more gigs this week to look forward to, including a trip to Spain. I’m really looking forward to Thursday’s gig at the 100 club, which will feature an extra special extended LS line-up. Anyone who came to the gig at the millennium dome (or the Hope and Anchor last new year’s eve) should have an idea of the treats in store…

Malcolm

On The Road Again

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

So we’re FINALLY on tour! It seems like forever since we started the band and we thought, we should really get out on tour and play to people who might not have heard of us before. And lo and behold, some 2 years later here we are!

We’re in our nice red tour bus having left our Rusty Steed ‘Alan’ (our slightly shit van) in Greenwich, but shock horror none of the TVs work. Suffice to say the management will be getting a strongly worded letter of complaint, something about ‘catastrophes’ and ‘disasters’.

We must also welcome the newest member of the LS crew which is our delightful tour manager “Robbie Gee”. Robbie seems like a nice bloke but and the moment he’s being strong and silent whilst we speed up the M1 towards our first gig in Glasgow.

Due to the wonders of Laptops and bluetooth enabled mobiles this is coming to you from the back of the van as we sit around and listen to Radio 3, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I’ll sure they’ll be updates galore after the gig and from around the country.

stay safe, and if you think being in a band is glamorous check out this shot from the back of the van…

Ivor….