Ahh lovely, this is the life, had an absolutely great gig with Clive last night at the institute at kelvedon, which is quickly becoming one of my favourite venues to play. Mainly because James is one of the most professional promoters I have ever met:
James Partridge - approach with caution.
We've had a lovely lazy morning of swanking around in Clive's hotel eating breakfast and nicking their wi-fi, which is where I am blogging from. The 48 hours prior to these have been somewhat more of a slog, we've done a show at The Beehive in Swindon, many thanks to Andy for having us and for Justin and Claire for suprising me by turning up to the show. We then drove overnight to Heathrow so that we were situated half way between the next show, only to discover when we checked into the hotel that I had left my laptop at The Beehive. So next morning we had a VERY long and horrible horrible drive back to swindon and then back across country to Kelveldon. I now have a deep hatred for the M25 and would quite happily blow it up and will endeavour never to have to drive on it ever again in my lifetime. My arse now looks like the bucket of the driving seat. Nice.
Last night I had a lovely time falling asleep in a rocking chair whilst Clive sang me songs backstage, Clive's set was awesome last night with fab new material. If you get a chance to catch him whilst he's on this tour I highly highly recommend it. I know he's me mate and all that but boy that man knows how to write a killer song.
Today? We are chillaxing, super. Breakfast done, 5 cups of coffee, gonna do a bit of essentials shopping and then meander on over to Manningtree to decamp to tonights accommodation and have showers and a nap before the show this evening.
We are having a lovely time, but I'm missing Dom loads :( and it's only day 4!! Ah, no rest for the wicked, we're off to errr, swank!
me, swanking and looking a bit rough to be frank!
Liddi backstage at The Institute
Lovely lovely pepper, James and Helen's doggie :)
Lou, you only have a couple more days to Listen Again to last week's "Why The Long Face?" on Ipswich Community Radio. As a clue toward the content, we spend the first bit of the show talking about Clive Gregson, and after about twenty minutes the conversation turns to "Girls who look like Jenny Agutter" - I'm just saying... There's a fast-forward facility in case you're easily bored.
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