This is 4 days overdue – we’ll be catching up as we can here, including uploading some short video clips. In the mean time, here’s an LA diary:
Los Angeles. Stuffy, smoggy, serious altitude drop = unwarranted hangovers for the band. Make fun of New Mexico when you’ve had some clean air, why don’t you…
On tour. Feb 12, San Diego. We’re in an extra-cozy café on University, not getting an internet connection and waiting for our gig. Or, rather, our load-in @ the Soda Bar. This café, the Claire de Lune, is playing endless, fairly insufferable MOR AOR from the 90s… Dave Matthews… on and on. Otherwise, it’s perfectly nice to sit here – actually a beautiful little corner site and space. We picked up a San Diego Citybeat that picked us as their ‘Plan A’ for today, in the column “If I were you…” That’s good news. Another [f*cking] SY reference but that’s okay, and, weirdly for us, another PRIDS reference. All good things, though, clearly, for this audience. I guess. I hope the journo and a lot of other fools will turn up for it.
Last night was a mixed bag of a gig, at Silverlake Lounge on Sunset. For the most part, good: good turnout, good response, but didn’t seem to be very well promoted, and the bartenders sure seemed to hate our requests for water! But that was mostly funny. We’ve got a long video of the whole show which we’ll be trimming into bits, I think. Thanks, Emerson, for the recording… We enjoy LA, but San Diego’s a relief and we’re all looking forward to our various dates and sight-seeing.
Next installation: San Diego, and more interesting items to report…
