06/05/2006: "Tour Diary - Days Nine and Ten"

music: mj hibbett + the validators

Well, Day Nine didn't happen, so we all did various non-band-related things. I went to a barbecue.

London - Buffalo Bar
With The Scarlet Tuesday, Stuffy and the Fuses

Setlist:
To The Power of Love
Contains Mild Peril
Super Bonus
Trance Anthem
Teenwolf
The Girl Who Loved Slaughter
My Portable Friend
Zombie Bride

We finished the tour the same way we started it - with one of the best gigs we've ever played. We arrived at the venue and were quickly asked if we'd like to be interviewed by Sky News (!) about "Sandi Thom and the internet promotion revolution", or something. Obviously we agreed, so this should be on tonight at 7pm. Hopefully we'll be able to find some way to record it and get it onto Youtube or something, but I have no idea how to do this so it may never happen. They also recorded some footage of us playing Teenwolf in the soundcheck, but this will doubtlessly be edited down to about 15 seconds of cymbal crashes.
The soundman put some delay on the vocals for the HOWWWWWWWWWWLS in Teenwolf which was inspired. Great soundman, great venue, decent crowd - we now fully recommend the Buffalo Bar as being "GOOD LONDON".
The actual set went fantastically well, the Scarlet Tuesday's last ever gig was magnificent, and Stuffy and the Fuses were great fun as well. There was another guy set to play afterwards but we had to dash, as half of the band have work today (not me though, hooray).

GIG RATING: 10/10

AMOUNT OF MONEY SPENT IN SERVICE STATIONS THROUGHOUT TOUR: £3.4 billion

PHOTOGRAPHS!

some new names for familiar songs?

a stunt car we saw in birmingham, whilst lost.

mandy and nathan in the bullring, birmingham. not pictured behind: some kind of reverse bungee chaos.

the angel of the north! also pictured: large metal piece of art in background.

whitby!

nathan laughs in the face of danger.

the band, minus tom, on whitby beach. FOOTBALL was played.

a face, on a lorry. it inspires terror!

the humber bridge.

see you next time!