Swansea... Sin CIty Club / Venue

Yeah that name is pretty apt. The venue tonight took us from yesterday's sublime to today's ridiculous. From the spotless church environment of the 'National Revival Centre' in Horsham to the Sin City club, where the floor is so sticky that they never have a problem with flies.

The venue tonight was a lot smaller, and the ticket sales were less because of that but the venue still felt rammed. Apparently there were around 500/600 people there tonight.

Our set was slightly shorter than the other two nights and we really enjoyed playing so it felt like it went too quickly! We started with Masterplan again and finished with White Suit... a first, we normally finish with Book Club. Another little tweak tonight was that I intro'd Athens and said a little bit about the song. During the set I had this uncanny sense that this grubby little place is where we're meant to be; meaning these kind of venues, not Swansea... It was almost audible it was so clear. I don't think that means we're gonna need to change direction massively as a band but it's definitely something to hold to and think about.

It was the most stressful change over we've yet done. We have to remove stuff from the stage and straight through a nearby door into a fire escape. The fire escape was covered (and I mean covered) in pigeon poo. Which is ironic because the Pigeon Detectives played the venue just 2 days ago; you'd of thought they'd have caught the culprit and cleared up the scene of the crime, but alas, the pigeon poo bags have got off scot free again... I digress... So all of gear needed to come off before Delirious could come on so it was a busy 10 minutes! Mitson got a bit stressed but it was ok...

Today we finished our soundcheck quickly and got down to share dinner in a nearby restaurant with crew and the band. It was good to get a chance to relax with them and chat.

We're really enjoying this whole tour business, it's kind of weird, we said today that we don't really want it to stop.


Getting tired now... looking forward to some days off at Wigley after tomorrow's gig.