Monday, May 5th, 2008
We’ve been working hard on demos of the new songs, but we managed to get out into the sunshine this weekend, with a gig in Barcelona. Despite being on stage at 3.15 am, and the boys heading down to the beach afterwards with a bottle of rum to watch the sun rise, we got in a bit of sightseeing and some of us got a little bit burned.
The gig at Razzmatazz was great – a packed room singing along and reminding us why we spend a whole day travelling to play for 45 minutes. The only bad thing was that between songs we could hear the banging beats from Timo Maas playing upstairs.
We stayed in Barcelona an extra night and got a bit more sunshine, before flying back to Gatwick to be welcomed by the rain. Hopefully the weather will improve in time for the summer festivals…
Malcolm
Friday, August 10th, 2007
Hola! Buenas tardes
Well, we’re back in good old Blighty and the tan’s beginning to fade. Pontevedra was brilliant. Apart from performing our accoustic set (in a beautiful old town square surrounded by orange trees and the setting sun) we sat around for the whole trip eating tapas and drinking beer, soaking up the Spanish sunshine. It was idyllic, and really untouched without a MacDonalds in sight. Needless to say we stood out like four sore thumbs with our Irish tans and and our Brits Abroad accents ordering UNA VINO BLANCO PER FAVOR. We finally met up with Cooper, who are a rather good little beat combo from the Elefant stables. They were ace, as were Koacha from France. Vincent the singer is a complete nut-job and when he isn’t crowd surfing or nose-diving off the drum kit he’s out in the audience shaking everyone’s hand while the rest of the band are ad-libbing on stage. Amazing!
It won’t be long before we’re back so Andrew and I are in competitive moods to see who can learn Spanish in a month. Hmmm… he’s already better than me. He has all the moves.
Anyways, Malc’s come back a married man, which means we need to get on and put in some practice as it’s now less than a month before we’re back on the road. Woohoo!
Will let you know how the Spanish is going…
Mi aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas. Si?
Hasta luego,
Ali x x x
We’ve been working hard on demos of the new songs, but we managed to get out into the sunshine this weekend, with a gig in Barcelona. Despite being on stage at 3.15 am, and the boys heading down to the beach afterwards with a bottle of rum to watch the sun rise, we got in a bit of sightseeing and some of us got a little bit burned.
