Sat 26 July
Peace & Ecology Festival
St Luke's Church (bombed out church)
Top of Bold St, Liverpool
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The Bladder Tour Memoirs
Seeing as we're taking a brief break from our tour until the end of the month, I thought I'd update you as to how all is going so far. Derby, Leicester and Wolverhampton are now under our belt, and it's fair to say that my bladder is playing a large part in proceedings.
Those long drives and my famously weak bladder are not the best combination and lead to me typically writhing around the car in frantic attempts to try to hold on that little bit longer until we reach Services.
At Derby, we reached Derby's football ground quite easily but then toured the ring roads seeking the park. When we finally found it I was absolutely desperate and chose the nearest tree!
Sadly for me it was on a hill and when I looked round Chad and Howard each had their mobile phone cameras pointed at me. No doubt a film of me weeing up a tree in Derby will someday appear on Youtube.
The events themselves have been great. People are loving our set and our CDs are selling really well.
Plus, everywhere we go we meet Scousers in the audience. Thanks for coming and saying hello after the show. It's great to chat with people afterwards.
Derby was a lot of fun. Everyone was still bouncing after Derby County had so recently won promotion to the Premier League, so we had a lot of fun with that. I even got a few moments break when the tent erupted in Derby County songs! Last time I went to an away game at Derby County ("the Rams") someone from the club led a sheep around the pitch before the game which I found amusing. I wonder if they still do that?
I was really impressed by the quality of the parks in the Midlands. Abbey Park in Leicester is so called because it is actually the site of a former Abbey, and the ruins are still in place. It also had a huge river (ok not a river, a stream), and a boating lake, people were playing an actual cricket match, and there were some kids wearing Liverpool kits. And one lad kept yelling "Play some Baytuls!!" which I later worked out was Beatles but in a Midlands accent.
Likewise West Park in Wolverhampton was lovely too, but the weather was dreadful. My shoes looked like football boots and I had mud splattered up my legs. It did bring everyone into the music tent though, and Wolverhampton Community Radio (WCR) interviewed us for a feature on their music show.
Funny though, last time I was in that part of the world the weather couldn't have been more different. On that occasion I was on a march in Stourbridge in support of hospital workers who were on strike in Dudley and the sun was glorious.
Our next tour date will be in Coventry. So I'll be looking forward to that. And of course, I'll make sure I don't forget to have a wee before I set off!!!
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