Category: Tours

  • Tour of Eastern Yurp – April 2011 – Part III

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    Note: To aid your reading, you may wish to check out the whole set of photos on Facebook. OLOMOUC In the morning we wake, and drive to Wien. Bratislava and Wien are surprisingly close together, so we’ve decided to drop our rental car back to Vienna before hopping on the train to Olomouc, to the…

  • Tour of Eastern Yurp – April 2011 – Part II

    Tour of Eastern Yurp – April 2011 – Part II

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    Note: To aid your reading, you may wish to check out the whole set of photos on Facebook. BRNO Our driving seems to be perpetually punctuating by traffic jams in Praha/Prague. Just before we arrive we get done by the motorway patrol people – I don’t think they’re police, but I’m not sure. (I didn’t…

  • Tour of Eastern Yurp – April 2011 – Part I

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      Note: To aid your reading, you may wish to check out the whole set of photos on Facebook. WIEN We had a welcoming party at Wien Flughafen (Vienna Airport to you and me) and were whisked immediately into the city, swallowed whole by history and architecture. Dave Redmond (double-bass player extraordinaire) and myself were…

  • Wrappin’ Up – US Tour 2010

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    I’m writing this from a flat in Paris, which is trés chic of course, but then, that’s how we roll.  I had some things to say about the final stages of the US Tour with the Guggenheim Grotto for quite a while.  Inevitably, with the madness of the tour, the post-tour physical crash, and the…

  • Chelsea Hotel… Number Three

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    Last month, we spent a night at The Chelsea Hotel in New York, had some beers and played some music.  And of course, we recorded some tunes.  Here’s a cover of Leonard Cohen’s  “Chelsea Hotel #2”.  Hope you enjoy it! Kevin wrote a nice blog about it here : Guggenheim Grotto

  • Jamminess vs Spaciness

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    Mick & I are amazed by Kevin’s spaciness much of the time.  He’s away with the fairies for a vast percentage of the day.  I’m not entirely guiltless in that regard, but Kev’s off the charts.  The Universe however is on Kevin’s side, not mine. On the morning we left Pittsburgh, Kevin couldn’t find his…

  • Mandy’s Lost Years – US Tour 2010

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    The drive to Pittsburgh isn’t too long, so we’re okay with it, but we’re sad to be leaving Fort Wayne, where we’ve been treated like High Kings.  The good news is that Pittsburgh shares three rivers with Fort Wayne.  At least we’re not leaving it all behind. There are two places that Mandy our sat-nav/GPS…

  • Dun Uaine (Wayne’s Fort) – US Tour 2010

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    The following day, we make for Fort Wayne where we’re playing Come2Go, a very well-equipped, flashy space in downtown Fort Wayne.  Brad looks after us here and when I say that he looks after us, I mean, he’s the most generous fella you could ever meet.  The venue is huge, and they have a guy…

  • ‘Ark the ‘Erald – US Tour 2010

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    We arrived in Ann Arbor and narrowly escaped the clutches of an awful hotel downtown, on a cold and snowy night.  Bizarrely, he recommends that we stay at the Best Western, which we do, except someone has rebranded it as a Clarion.  It’s a nice hotel, and deathly quiet – maybe five other rooms occupied…

  • Gremlins of Mind & Sound – US Tour 2010

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    Tonight we play in SPACE, which is a phrase I’ll never tire of hearing. The final frontier. The beautiful and large venue, restaurant and recording studio in Evanston IL, is just north of Chicago.  The area needed a centre like this for a long time, and the locals have really taken to it.  We have…