Day one
An early start and Big Stevey Ranks dropped off 'Kids on bridges' at the airport, Manchester to be precise, a full english was entered into followed by a short sharp shot of Jack Daniels courtesy of the duty free people and so began the trip to the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan.
On entering the plane chris remembers only hearing a loud gasp of shock from the dishevelled wreck in front of him. To his amazement Danny proceeded to rip apart the arms of the chairs in a bid to find his tv, which unfortunately did not exist. KOB were left to watch 'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past', and as dishy and Matthew McConaghey is, it's just not the same sharing a tele for 12 hours! Management received a call on the and this mistake WILL NOT occur again!
The relief of Narita airport and the sight of Danny Donnelly, manager extraordinaire was evident. Our Dreamusic Records host, Hide, watered us up and rushed us off into a big blacked out luxury vehicle, reclining seats, tv etc, bring on the D-list celebrity lifestyle.
Took our bags to the hotel, very nice, and Hide took us for jellied seaweed, beans in your desert and wasabi, mindblowing stuff then straight to the HMV in Shibuya, Tokyo where we were introduced to the manager who pull off the wall poster of us and we signed it gracefully for him. We were sent across the room to find our album stacked up on a stand of it's very own (pictures available) and we stood and ogled it for a while. Quite surreal to see and even more bizarre when every record store we went to had us in there in between Calvin Harris and Little Boots and other international artists.
After a quick kipperooney we went back out for a bit more fodder, were introduced to our tour translator and then on to party. Hide, our label host, had already contacted his boys at the club who had held us back a nice little VIP corner with free drinks all night, translator saw what was coming and left swiftly. There was pictures of celebs all over the wall with the DJ's, Vin Diesel, Charlize Theron, Bon Jovi, Harrison Ford, Paris Hilton and now, KIDS ON BRIDGES. DJ flattered us as we sat enjoying the company of some Dutch Gap models by playing one of our tracks and sending over the waiter to ask us for a photo and to sign the album, we did so with gratitude and continued to party the night away, one liners aplenty, drinks flowing and some dance moves i've never seen before from Donnelly.
Tokyo sherbert drivers aren't keen on picking up 3 wasted noisy westerners and when we did managed to find one it was damn lucky Hide had left us with cards with the hotel address on or we'd still be lying outside that club.
And so ended day one of our whirlwind adventure in Japan.