We spent the next few days in Zweibrucken; a small city just inside the border between Germany and Luxembourg in Tsaarland. We were there to play a house party show for Mari, a mutual friend of Chris on Monday but arrived the day before as Mari very kindly let us stay a few days to... Continue Reading →

Chris woke me up at 6.30 in the morning to move the car. On our walk back we were greeted by a cheery, passing cyclist shouting “hey guys!’ we turned our tired heads to see Mike (see previous blog) emerging from passing traffic, looking fresh faced; if anything better than the night before. Mike chatted... Continue Reading →

I was opening up in Munich. Hit with a wave of nerves not helped by the fact that it was so dark on stage and the light was shining up at me so bright that I could only see a silhouette of my guitar. I took to the stage and kicked off my set. I... Continue Reading →

We arrived in Leipzig and parked the car as close to our AirBnb as possible due to a road closure. We finally found our room and by god it was beautiful. We had two rooms to ourselves for the first time on the tour and we had a jacuzzi bath which Brendan sampled and emerged... Continue Reading →

Things are bound to go wrong on a tour. We've been lucky so far but you can never really plan for the little mundane things in life that just happen. We were going back to our flat in Berlin to collect our equipment for the gig; We were cutting things fine as it was but when... Continue Reading →

I RELEASED A NEW TUNE THE OTHER DAY, PLEASE TAKE A SECOND TO CHECK IT OUT! Anyway, back to the tour We’ve arrived in Berlin. The traffic is mental. Horns are blaring, we’re all screaming. We are going to die. 20 minutes later we arrived at our AirBnb for the weekend. To our dismay we... Continue Reading →

We'd been booked to play Marias Ballroom in Hamburg, the venue owner was a tall, bearded punk rocker called Heimo who we quickly realised was probably the nicest man ever to walk this earth. Heimo walked around singing loudly and sharing stories and asking us about our trip before showing us to the backstage and helping us... Continue Reading →

Last night's show was at a small restaurant in central Amsterdam. We caught a Park & Ride into the centre from our accommodation and lugged our stuff across the city to the nights venue. The venue was cute. It was a student run, not for profit restaurant / bar that strongly encouraged the arts and great... Continue Reading →

Show number one of tour. The first show in the Netherlands. We were playing at a hostel (which is actually such a cool gig, lots of people close to our age that are actually interested in hearing new music.) The venue pulled out all the stops for us on promotion and we pulled in a... Continue Reading →

Today marks the first date of my European tour with Chris Tavener. Me and Chris met at an open mic night in Alderley Edge a few years previously where he won over the crowd with his charming satirical songs and I nervously performed on stage for probably the fifth or sixth time. We kept bumping... Continue Reading →