New Hampshire is known not only for its breathtaking scenery but also for the artist Maxfield Parrish who lived there most of his adult life, his work influencing many 1970 album covers notably Elton Johns ‘Caribou’ and Enyas ‘The Memory of Trees’. We arrived there with the rain. Big rain – huge heavy drops which […]
Usual breakfast then spent a useless two hours, first at a pharmacy where I was told the pills I used for IBS could not be got over the counter. So went to a ‘Walk-in’ clinic where I waited for ¾ of an hour to be seen by a doctor who recommended the pill mainly used […]
In the morning two guys come to do a filmed interview about Ian Wallace – the legendary drummer from Neil’s first band after the Bonzos called The World. We were all very young and Ian used to have a full drum kit set up in our living room for rehearsals. It says something about the […]
And on to Lexington to an Aloft hotel which I can thoroughly recommend. Leland Stein found the hotel. Smiles and a welcome as we walked in, nice new rooms, good bed and good food – just sandwiches and salads but really good. Thought we would try and book more of these instead of risking Holiday […]
Woke up happy with the thought that in an hour we would be out of that hotel. Usual breakfast of cold boiled eggs, or cheese omelet or muffin or bagel, orange juice and coffee. Then out and away to Northampton which took about 3 hours. Northampton is a cool place and the Iron Horse is […]
Hey ho, now sitting upstairs in The Highline Ballroom listening to Mark Howard, the opener for Neil. The ballroom is a smaller cosier place than BB Kings, though run by the same lovely people – beautifully friendly from the start, offering food, wine, anything, within reason, we ask for. Neither of us are drinking at […]
Back to the city and a hotel in New Jersey not far from the Lincoln Tunnel. I booked the hotels so that, in the mornings, we were virtually on the road out to the next venue –nice to hit the road without having to wait in queues of traffic. We parked the car near the Imperial […]
We had a great breakfast – a huge fruit bowl with melons, strawberries, grapes, as well as natural yogurt, walnuts, scrambled eggs and coffee. Then checked out and left for an early gig in Ocean City Library. The drive took about an hour and the GPS took us through back streets and away from any […]
I think today we both feel slightly down and tired – it hits you around the second or third day. Things get tedious, we start getting tetchy, we forget how incredibly lucky we are to be able to work our way around this amazing country. We forget to look at the trees. We forget to […]
A longish drive down to Washington DC, stopping at a service area to find fresh fruit, sandwiches and good coffee. Things are looking up. The gig was at Jammin Java in Vienna, but Bob Bollen from NPR had asked Neil to do one of his Tiny Desk Concerts earlier in the day. We really didn’t […]
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