Thanks for all the comments about our first diary entry - here's the 2nd...
'Frozen Heart' is now uploaded to the Myspace page with 'He's Moving On' joining it yesterday - another track from the EP added tomorrow.
Date 3 and 4 – Hertford & Birmingham Today we were very ambitious and decided to try to squash 2 gigs into one day and headed off to Hereford. Our Geography skills have always been questionable and we didn’t realise that Hereford was actually somewhere near Wales and not just outside of London. If I had realised that we would be driving for 4 hours I might have actually gone to bed a reasonable time the night before. Still, the journey was fun and went without a hitch. Once we arrived and tried to unload, things started to get a bit stressful and reached a peak when Kaf opened the boot and the laptop fell out. Luckily the promoter witnessed me shouting and said ‘we’ll have none of that’ which shut me up before I really lost it. Sometimes playing in a stressed and argumentative state can be good and the crowd at the Wild Hare Club were really warm and welcoming, probably because they were all really wasted. They also told us where Birmingham was, which was helpful. (photo below by Richard Shakespeare)
The gig in Birmingham’s Glee Club was really great, the sound was clear and the audience were silent. Having a captive audience is fun because it gives you a chance to tell people about your thoughts in between songs. Kaf started explaining a movie idea we have had about a sat nav that is possessed and takes you away from your route into a haunted woods. Judging by the audience’s scared silence after we pitched our movie idea to them it looks like we have a potential Box office hit on our hands.
Driving around Cardiff is rather difficult. After many failed attempts at getting to the venue a very kind gentleman asked us what we were trying to do driving through a pedestrianised area. Once he realised we had no clue where we were going he sent us off to the Cardiff Museum where we got to park and look at lots of Welsh caveman bones. Cardiff was another fun show with a great audience. We hung around after the show talking to lots of nice people and then decided to set off to our travel lodge in Newport. For a while our journey was going alright and we were chatting and laughing as we unknowingly drove further and further away from our hotel and deeper into the dark hills. I think we might have been more calm about being guided towards a old abandoned hotel in the middle of the woods had it not been for the fact we spent the majority of yesterday working on our sat nav horror movie plot. After pulling over, locking the doors and trying to reprogram the sat nav back out of the ghost village it became apparent that the sat nav was in fact trying to kill us and refused to switch back on. Getting back to Newport using old fashioned road signs was ok but we had no way of knowing where the hotel was. After hours of desperate searching Kaf set off on foot in a last attempt to get help. Newport city centre at 2.30 in the morning was scarier than the haunted hotel and seemed to be only populated by drunken 15 year olds in search of kebabs and fights. Finally we thought things were looking up when we convinced a taxi driver to lead us to the hotel but we almost got killed because in our rush to follow him our special ‘tour organisational clipboard’ flew across the dash board and jammed between the steering wheel and the window causing the car to career across the road and nearly fly off a bridge. Four hours after we left the gig we stumbled into the travel lodge in a shaken and dazed state having survived the worst case of sat nav malfunctioning we have ever experienced.
Only two days to go now until our headline show at
The Luminaire. For tickets,
head to: www.SeeTickets.com