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Theatre of the Earth, Thessaloniki, Greece
18th July 2009 | Larry
Oxegen Festival, Naas, Ireland
10th July 2009 | Larry
Writing session in Los Angeles, California
1st April 2009 | Larry
1st April 2009 | Larry
Saturday’s soup was provençal.
20th December 2008 | Juliet
It was a grey day in Manchester, grey and wet..
But tonight there were pink air hostesses again ushering the crowd, Santas and the Tone Float, and a new set list. Tyrone danced to a different song, and Andy wore his red dress again.
Catering was incredible. Xmas dinner with variations, salmon with lemon butter and something exotic with wild mushrooms for the veggies. There was port and stilton and xmas puddings…
Larry and some assorted friends and family, some from portugal one from brazil, headed off to party at Spirit on Canal Street and saw the early morning in…
It was a great tour. Thank you everybody.
I am making spicy parsnip soup today…
Manchester Central – Night 2
20th December 2008 | Larry
Manchester the first
19th December 2008 | Juliet
Today’s soup was garlic and potato with thyme with a splash of cream in there.
The venue is a bit on the chilly side and there is torrential rain staining the carpets, dampening bags and important pieces of paper in the dressing rooms. Tim’s lyrics bled.
But there is a spirit of festiveness especially when the team of pink air hostesses, the Air Muffins, arrive to help the audience find exits and entrances. In the foyer some slimline skinny Santas are busy giving out gifts. And the “Tone Float” milk float is already doing its thing. An accompanying tv screen of camberwick green milkman is part of the installation. It fills G-Mex with the cranky sound of ringing milk bottles and car horns and cows mooing. In the great tradition of English eccentrics, these milkmen of human kindness did versions of Manchester musical classics with a bit of James Sometimes thrown in. The Tone Float is like a mutant mobile milk bottle xylophone. Each bottle has a small electrical hammer behind it, which is ‘played’ by a midi keyboard or drum machine, and a few strings of wire ‘n chips. Milk bottles have a pretty harsh tone when empty, but when filled with ‘milk’ to different levels a semblance of tonal scale emerges, and the fun begins…
Saul has smaller wings today. Tyrone the sign language dance man does a perfomance on the podium to Tomorrow and Frustration.
Tim had a few post show thoughts on the gig:
“Do they get the weirdness of Gold Mother into Stutter? Or have they just come for the pop songs? This was going through my mind as I was reading the audience.But by the end it seemed everyone was having a good time.”
Same place, new set tomorrow.
Manchester Central – Night 1
19th December 2008 | Larry
Day two in Brixton
16th December 2008 | Juliet
Today’s soup was Moroccan chickpea…with much chili and spice.
Tim is a bit deaf after the sound issues last night. Hopefully this is temporary. Meanwhile, Larry has a trip to St. Thomas Hospital with what he considers a suspected broken foot. It hurts to walk. He limps badly for most of the day.
After waiting for two hours in the A and E department receiving little more attention than a ticket with a number on it, Larry gives up and heads tosoundcheck . The mysterious circumstances of the foot are still unknown to anyone but Larry. Speculation on what happened and how the incident may have involved astiletto boot are still unconfirmed. However lashings of arnica cream, nurofen, an ankle support and plenty of ice seem to have calmed the situation for the show to go on.
And it does…on the sloping dance floor of this old cinema palace…
Brixton Academy – Night 2
16th December 2008 | Larry
