Monday august 2, 2010
Monday august 2, 2010
Alrighty well so much so much for keeping up the tour blog regularly. J
Monday to thursday last week were mostly just continued rehearsals with rod.
This past Friday to Sunday was the southern fried Americana festival in perth, one of my favorite places. Not so much for the city itself, just the folks and local music and how I do very much enjoy Scotland and this festival in particular. Friday was rehearsals for the elvis tribute gig. Ran into aj roach and nels Andrews on the street, musicians I know from the US who were also booked to play this fest, so we all had dinner together and then a pint after – good fun. Saturday we had more rehearsals with the full band for the elvis gig, and then the show itself. After the show, all the musicians went back to the hotel, where we kept the hotel bar til after 3 am, drinking and passing the guitars around, singing to our heart’s content. That’s the second tribute show I’ve played at southern fried (the first was the hank Williams tribute in 2008), and has probably got to be the second funnest gig I’ve ever done.
Sunday, after 5 hours sleep (ouch), I did and hour and half songwriting workshop, then soundcheck for the gig, a short rest in the hotel room, and then the actual gig. After that we went across the street to a bar where my local Perth musician friend Gavin (surname?) (formerly of Southpaw) was hosting an open mic. Andy shearer, who books southern fried, came along and we had a nice little time there.
It’s now 6:44pm and I’ve just awaken from a wee nap in the car. We’ve been mostly driving since 10am, a brief visit to allie, our booking agent, and on the road again, en route to London. We’ll be recording a session with bob harris there tomorrow. That’s due to air aug 19.
Checked email briefly before we left the hotel this AM. Evan reports that the record has come along very nicely, and that tomorrow the last instrument is being added: mandolin, from Ronnie McCroury. ! Nice!
Pulling over to a services (what the UK calls a rest area) in a sec. Potty break.
All the news for now.
Xo, r
