The day after a tour finishes is always a bit of a melancholy moment. Post tour blues I think it's known as. It's not that being on tour is so amazing that depression sits in as soon as it's over, in fact 50% of the time I'm away I long for home. It's more because it's quite an intense experience, spending so much time with a group of people, the adrenaline of rock concerts every day, and highs and lows of drinking alcohol most nights. Aerogramme had a song called 'post tour pre judgement' which is a good way of summing up the few days after a long tour ends. When you focus on all the good stuff and all the fun that you've had. I know next week I'll have my usual opinion of touring (hard work, bad food, no sleep, missing your family, etc) but today I'm not thinking like that. I'm of positive mind, and I think we've played some great concerts.

There's been some talk and worry amongst Idlewild fans about us calling it a day after this 'best of' album and tour. The reality is that there's nothing the five of us like doing more than writing songs together and performing them. Our records might not sell as many copies as they used to (although they do sell well still) but I don't think that's because they aren't as good. I'm of the opinion that we're getting better at describing ourselves, and writing more interesting songs the longer we go on. So no, we're not 'splitting up', the opposite in fact, we're playing Edinburgh's Hogmanay in December then getting to work on our seventh album.

I've enjoyed writing this tour diary and I hope that it's been, in some way, an interesting insight to the goings on of a band on tour around Britain and Ireland in October and November of the year 2007.