Sunday, 4th September 2005 in Tours & Gigs, New York Tour 2005
Day one and not a single flared nostril amongst us. Instruments hav been accounted for and packed. Passports and visas in correct places. Clothes and merchandise ready to go. So when a sprightly and ever cheerful Doug turns up at 7.30 to drive us to Heathrow, all we have to do is have coffee and […]
Monday, 5th September 2005 in Tours & Gigs, New York Tour 2005
Wake at 3.30 with a desperate need for coffee so walk a block to an all- night deli called Smiles. I buy a cappuccino and a tea from a machine and walk back past the night-gangs of road repairers and shadowy shapes in doorways. When I get back to our room I find the cappuccino […]
Tuesday, 6th September 2005 in Tours & Gigs, New York Tour 2005
SHOWDAY Around 11am Tom,JJ and Neil decided they would hit the music shops on 48th street so we drifted through the heat listening, looking, narrowly missing taxis, walking past sparkly bag stalls. I suggest JJ buys one of these for his beloved – Tess, but he has already decided on much more sensible and useful […]
Wednesday, 7th September 2005 in Tours & Gigs, New York Tour 2005
Meet Bob for breakfast in a deli close by the hotel. My melon arrives as their cooked breakfast has been eaten and the coffee makes your teeth jangle. Still we have a good talk about the secret Bonzo concert in January – oh no not the leg irons… get off get off!!!!! Later meet Tom […]
Friday, 9th September 2005 in Tours & Gigs, New York Tour 2005
Will remember this morning for a while. Wake around 4am with headache which becomes bad at 6am and unbearable at 7am. 7.30 finds me staggering to the nearest shop for Tyrenol. Then out cold for about four hours during which time Neil is meeting Jason and a couple of radio guys downtown. Finally wake at […]
Saturday, 10th September 2005 in Tours & Gigs, New York Tour 2005
And my ………ieth !!!! birthday. Neil wakes me up with a cup of coffee, and croissant and a present – a sparkly pink bag which, I have to say, I love. Also a pretty card. There are messages from Luke and friends in England on email so feel loved and in a thoroughly happy mood. […]
Sunday, 11th September 2005 in Tours & Gigs, New York Tour 2005
Wake to find Neil has already tried to drop the piano off at SIR unsuccessfully. Tries again at 10am and this time after much shouting manages to get someone to hear and let him up the elevator. Then picks me up and we go to the first Starbucks for milky coffee. Then back across the […]
Monday, 12th September 2005 in Tours & Gigs, New York Tour 2005
Neil feeling completely bushed (relatively speaking) but The Big Apple calls so I walk all the way down 7th, with a minor stop at Macys, to Greenwich Village – Bleeker Street. Think it will be cooler today so don jeans instead of shorts and it just gets hotter. Keep detouring into Jamba Juice for shots […]
Tuesday, 13th September 2005 in Tours & Gigs, New York Tour 2005
Another sleepy day for Neil, Tom and JJ. Again I take Neil out for some air around lunchtime and watch slightly nervously as a large airship (dirigible??) moves through the air amongst the skyscrapers. Turns out to be a wholly innocent. Back to hotel and to Dillons slightly earlier than usual to set up and […]
Wednesday, 14th September 2005 in Tours & Gigs, New York Tour 2005
Not sure why, but unable to sleep more than four hours at a time over here. Neil is sleeping far more than me, which is unheard of at home. There is no reason I can think of. Anyway having gone to bed at 2am, I am up again at 6 and thanking all the powers […]
Thursday, 15th September 2005 in Tours & Gigs, New York Tour 2005
Wake up with the birds as usual and am first in the queue as Starbucks opens it’s doors. Later when Neil joins the land of the living, we go and visit some new friends and spend a very pleasant and relaxing hour high up on a terrace above the city. Then into Jamba Juice for […]
Friday, 16th September 2005 in Tours & Gigs, New York Tour 2005
Today Neil and I visit a NY accountant who is actually quite upbeat about the whole experience and demonstrates how a loss doesn’t have to be all bad (trade secret so no more about that). He has answers to all the questions we put to him. One positive thing about this visit has been that […]
Saturday, 17th September 2005 in Tours & Gigs, New York Tour 2005
Woken by a phone call from Ken Thornton who has arrived to see the show and give his very generous support as always. We walk down Broadway and find a small restaurant with tables outside where we have bowls of berries, scrambled eggs and coffee. Tonight we are hoping for a good crowd, being Saturday, […]
Sunday, 18th September 2005 in Tours & Gigs, New York Tour 2005
Up very very late. Breakfast at midday and then Ken goes to see a concert (Blue Face Men) – not sure I have name right, but he says they are brilliant. Neil and I go back to bed till around three pm when we have all arranged to meet Tom and JJ at their hotel. […]
Monday, 19th September 2005 in Tours & Gigs, New York Tour 2005
I take to the streets early trying to find last inspirational last minute gifts. Hate buying things which are not useful so end up buying Miles, Luke and Barney plain unlabelled jumpers – quite nice but nothing special. Kate, Barneys wife, is much easier. There is a sparkly store quite near the hotel with jewelry […]
Tuesday, 20th September 2005 in Tours & Gigs, New York Tour 2005
Again a late morning – what did you expect??? – though no hangovers. We pack and wait for the car to pick up the equipment and then the cases at our hotel. Say goodbye to our friends at Dillons and ease our way into the traffic and to JFK. Feel happy that things went as […]
