We're back from our first ever headline tour!
Our 2000 mile journey started with a trip to Bush Hall in London. The venue was amazing:
They also had the biggest kettle in the world:
We then drove to Luton to stay at a friend's house for the night. The next day we went to Leeds to play at Royal Park Cellars.
After the show we went to stay at the Rosie Taylor Project's house. The following morning I went to a park for a walk and met a guy called G-Dawg with a gold tooth. I was a bit scared. Once I got back from my walk we got back on the M1 and drove up to Edinburgh to play at Cabaret Voltaire.
We ended up playing at one of their club nights, going on stage at 12. We were rather apprehensive about it, but it turned out to be really great. People were dancing to our music! Not something we thought we'd ever see...
Long story, but we ended up having to drive back to North Wales after we played. I drove through the night, and we got back at 6.30 in the morning. Hardcore! We then had a couple of days in the studio before heading down to Bristol to play at Start the Bus.
Two people were dancing at the front again! Maybe we've gone dancier since our last tour...
The following day we drove back to London to record an XFM session for John Kennedy. We were wrongly directed down to the basement to park and ended up getting stuck!
We were locked in, but thankfully I had the number for XFM in my phone so I could get someone to move the car that was blocking the exit. After the kerfuffle we got to work:
Tea!
We were done by around 5, so we had the rest of the evening to have fun in Luton at our friend's house. We played Frustration, Top Trumps and cards.
The next day we went to another park in Luton. It was fun.
Then we decided to have a business meeting:
After the fun we headed back down to London to play at a small intimate venue called Monkey Chews.
We then went to stay with Inigo, who is the drummer in Klaus Says Buy the Record. He has a lovely house and studio near Tunbridge Wells. He has sheep!
And a parrot! He told me he loved me. Aww.
Next up was a show in Brighton at Talking Heads. A definite highlight of the the tour.
We spent another night in Tunbridge before going to Southampton to play at Talking Heads.
After soundcheck we met up with our good friend Luke Leighfield to go for dinner. It was Ad's birthday so we decided to go for a proper meal. By complete chance we ended up going to place where you could eat for free if it was your birthday! A full three courses, too.
We stayed over at Luke's, and then made our way home for a couple of days. Becca and I went over to Spain to visit my brother during our time off. It was amazing I did my best to promote T&S while I was there...
When I got back we had our last two gigs of the tour. The first one was back down in London to play a Local night at The King's Head in Crouch End. We played with Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards, who are a super group made up of members of Absentee, Ed Harcourt, Magic Numbers, Rumblestrips and Fields. It was ace. Really busy, too.
After yet another night sleeping in Luton we made our way up to Birmigham to play at St Paul's. It was the launch night for the new EP by Mr Bones and the Dreamers, and we played at this lovely venue:
We like churches. It was another busy one, and proved to be a nice ending to our tour.
Thank you to everyone who came to see us, we had a great time. Hopefully we'll be out on tour again at the end of June, so hopefully we'll see you again then!
In other news, yesterday I finished off a remix for The Answering Machine's next single Obviously Cold. Hopefully I'll be able to show it to you soon.
Tim and Sam x
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