this afternoon we climbed arthur’s seat, ate haggis at the sheep’s heid, and saw dr neil’s garden. thanks, john, for showing us around and putting us up. we enjoyed your coen bros and holy shit, you were right about the chocolate…
above, from our session on bbc radio scotland today. as you can see, we had a terrible time. couldn’t have ask for a better start to the tour than last night’s show at the sage in gateshead. thanks for all the tweets!
hello en route to gateshead, our first show of the tour. i’m up front with driving steve, eating apples from his girlfriend’s garden and a candy called fizz mania. everyone else is sleeping. we left the tin angel office in a scramble of amps, merch boxes, and musicians. it’s a grey day but with a […]
day one was with marc riley on bbc 6 music, lovely as always. four days left to listen online, if you care to jam along!
here’s a new live video for the second song from colours, magic in the panic. thank you, southern souls! to hear the recorded version and read a little thing i wrote about the song, click here.
it’s morning in texas and there’s lots of good stuff going on: i can tell by the way paul is pawing at his phone that he’s making another cool collage (see his other recent ones at our tour group page https://www.facebook.com/groups/206941459481866/) … also, our friends doug and telisha are in town and gave us the excuse […]
goodbye, misty scotland. hello, humid austin. goodbye instant coffee and milky americanos. hello, texas beans in a drip machine. goodbye, traveling in a group of seven! hello, news from the homefriends front. goodbye, only-one-thing-to-do-in-a-day (plus the getting-there). hello, choose your own adventure. goodbye, magpies and rooks. hello, cardinals and jays.
SCOTLAND aug 15 – edinburgh – douglas studio aug 16 – edinburgh – douglas studio aug 17 – fife – lethem village hall aug 18 – carmunnock – village hall aug 20 – ullapool – argyle hotel aug 23 – shetland – lerwick mareel aug 24 – shetland – fair isle hall aug 27 – isle of eigg – ceilidh hall UK / IRELAND oct 3 – gateshead – sage 2 – tickets oct 6 – glasgow – glad cafe – tickets oct 7 – manchester – castle hotel – tickets oct 8 – leeds – brudenell social club – tickets oct 9 – durham – old launderette oct 10 – stirling – tolbooth oct 11 – coventry – the tin – tickets oct 13 – milton keynes – stables – tickets oct 14 – […]
arrived to shetland! highlights of the 12-hour ferry trip over included: – playing games w/ robin, thom, matt, and paul w/ pints of simmer dim – reading oscar & lucinda – pretty comfy bunks – dancing on the deck (see vid attached) – being picked up by neil riddell (ragged wood promotions) and taken back […]
I couldn’t hear the rain over the hubbub in the bar downstairs but now that we’re up in the room, it’s such a nice going-to-bed sound. When P and I were talking earlier, the view out the window behind him was insane: the weirdest round mountains totally smothered in mist, one in front of the […]