Paris - Part 1 August 16th, 2008

So after our intense interrogation getting into London we were pretty damn paranoid about getting into France, and this time we couldn’t hide the fact we had a car full of backline. We played it ridiculously safe. Nik, Ash and Rhys went as walk on passengers and I drove on, with a list of excuses [...]

London - Part 2 August 16th, 2008

I basically finished organising the car around 1 hour too late to make our first show, luckily I could arrange to borrow some backline, so the guys just had to cruise their guitars through the tube. For our first show in London we were playing the “City Showcase”, a yearly SXSW type event put on [...]

London - Part 1 July 27th, 2008

The flight to London was actually too short for me. It was only like 6/7 hours, I was really enjoying watching some cheesy movies and really didn’t want it to stop. The last few days had been such a stressful, sleepless emotional rollercoaster that it was actually awesome to not be able to do anything [...]

NYC - Part 2 July 22nd, 2008

Fiona (Ex-Coolies) had responded to my desperation email, and as she does for most kiwis in NYC, offers to host us for a few nights, so after exhausting Martin’s hospitality we head over to her and her husband BJ’s apartment. While I stayed back at Fiona’s place and did more crazy emailing, managing to sell [...]

NYC - Part 1 July 14th, 2008

First night in New York can only be described as “living the dream”.
We had arrived late-ish into the city around 9pm, luckily Nik had pre-arranged through a friend of his and Ash’s, Erin, to crash at her place. We had hoped we could stay there for the whole 5 days or so we were in [...]

Arlington, Virginia July 9th, 2008

So many of these posts I want to start with “STRANGEST SHOW EVER”, and Arlington ain’t no exception. This was nuts. It could be the weirdest show on the tour….but its early days, so I don’t want to jump the gun just yet.
We had arranged this house party through Your Black Star who we met [...]

Philadelphia July 7th, 2008

Alright….I’m back on the blogging action. Its been an absolute madhouse the past couple of weeks and with limited internet available its been hard to get this happening…however, I’ve written a bunch of blogs now and will be updating this pretty much every second day for the next while, sorry for the delay.
On the way [...]

Sorry for slow updates June 24th, 2008

Its much harder finding free/cheap internet in europe and things have been crazy the last coupla weeks….but I am working on a MASSIVE update..heaps of tales and photos…so please check back in a couple of days for some madness.

Jamestown, New York State June 9th, 2008

Personally. Jamestown was my highlight of the tour so far. The people, the town the shows. We played three shows there in three days, a town nobody we told that we were going there had even heard of.

Because we had slept in the car and driven through the night we arrived in Jamestown around 9am…with [...]

Pittsburgh June 9th, 2008

he less said about this show the better. We’ve forgotten it already, probably best you did as well.
We did get offered accom after the show (said in classic “stoner” voice) “Well…we don’t have electricity…we just like to light some candles and get stoned all night”. We politely declined, opting to sleep in the car instead.
I [...]