Yes, I know that we keep going on about it…

Written by neil on 22 April, 2008 in Touring with no comments.

I’ve been trying for a while to write something more considered than the blogs that I kept on tour. What I’ve ended up with is more of a personal musing and so it seemed appropriate to stick it in my own blog. The views expressed herein do not represent, etc…So if you want my two […]

Touring by numbers.

Written by neil on 16 April, 2008 in Touring with no comments.

On tour III – Pardubice, we love you…

Written by neil on 9 April, 2008 in Touring with no comments.

On tour II – Bratislava, backache and bastards.

Written by neil on 8 April, 2008 in Touring with no comments.

Bratislava, backache and bastards. No drummer, no drama, that’s our motto in The Layers. Today has been dominated by Roo’s herniated disc. After a consultation with Vienna’s foremost spinal specialist, we decided that drumming would be unwise for him and faced with the prospect of Rupert being unable to vent his energies on the bus, were […]

On tour pt I – Utrecht and Vienna

Written by neil on 5 April, 2008 in Touring with no comments.

Late afternoon sunshine on a campsite in Vienna, day two of the two-night music party in Club Bach and a long-awaited pause for breath: the first day without any driving… bliss. For a while it felt as if our whole world had narrowed to a series of two, three, four lane roads snaking across France, […]

Hartelijk dank!

Written by neil on 21 February, 2008 in Touring with no comments.

I’m a little weary this morning – I should have had an early night last night but couldn’t resist the urge to play at open mics on consecutive evenings in two different countries. Yes, I visited Utrecht to meet Henk and all the other guys that he’s recruited over there to publicise the CouchSurfing Musicians […]