Monday is usually a day to avoid on the road. No-one really wants to go out on a Monday so the audiences are invariably smaller than they would be any other day Also we have a four hour drive to Chester, just south of Liverpool to Telfords Warehouse. The weather is predictably June, as Ken […]
All the way down to Southampton on the south coast so up and off early – 10 ish, a couple of stops for coffee and sandwiches etc etc etc and we arrive at the hotel. This is the only bummer. Here you have a code you have to remember to keep on you to get […]
Around 5am I wake and almost immediately think of Neil’s, guitar mike and ukele holder both of which fix on to the voice mike. I think about them because I realise I have no memory of putting them in the cases. Decide against asking for the van to be unpacked again to check since the […]
A short drive today to Stratford On Avon so we sit in the foyer of the hotel waiting as one by one the guys appear, Conversation is quiet in keeping with the hangovers. During the journey to Stratford Griff tells me of his last tour where they had a road crew with guitar technicians etc, […]
Today is Friday so it must be Stourbridge – west of Birmingham. The ride is longer than we think and we have no time to check in at hotel – especially when I take an unexpected half an hour detour – it was the American navigator..honest!!. No, not really Ken, I’m sure I misheard. The […]
Lazy day –nice after a good gig. JJ and Griff stay over so we eat a very late lunch outside watching the ducks eat the fish food and the rabbits eating the plants and then leave in plenty of time for London. After about 15 minutes come to a dead stop and find ourselves in […]
Leave Farnham around lunchtime – easy drive to London and then it is nose to tail so that instead of arriving nice and ‘first gig’ early we arrive late. Mickey is already there having just popped across from Surrey while John has been stuck in traffic for hours, so he arrives latest. Once you get […]
Wake up, sun streaming through the windows – unusual for June. Jumpers don’t normally come off till August and then only for four weeks. Today the start of the Rutles Farewell Tour – a short sharp plunge into Englands heartlands for the intrepid six. Neil – composer of all lyrics on guitar, piano and vocals. […]
Left early again in a rain cloud which fortunately eased as we headed west towards Amarillo. The same long day driving. We stopped at a rest area and could hardly stand up, the wind was so strong and by the time we got to the hotel there was a huge dust cloud forming. So glad […]
Neil has promised to be at Abbey Road Studios for the film festival. He plays ‘I must be in Love’ and ‘Back in ’64’ on Saturday before we all watch ‘A Hards Day’s Night’, the Beatles first film, which has the flimsiest excuse for a plot I have ever seen- actually no, I had seen […]
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