- Posted on March 5, 2008 3:37 PM
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Lineup:
Anti Flag
THE KING BLUES
All Idols Fall
Feb- March ’08.
The next morning we set off silly early and hopped in the back of the van. We’d bought a pirate copy of Sweeny Todd to watch on the way, we waited for an hour and a half for Johnny Depp to finally make his entrance before we figured out we’d been given the old version of the film. We must be really stupid. Plus we couldn’t complain because they HAD given us Sweeny Todd. Anyways, we arrived back in London, said our goodbyes and went to sleep for 2 days. Cheers to Anti Flag and crew, All Idols Fall and crew, Dave Taylor, the merch girls and Tim.
- Posted on March 5, 2008 3:36 PM
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Everything hurts. I can barely walk, I can barely breathe and my head is definitely gonna fall off soon. We pile into a country pub in some town inbetween Manc and Brum and order the largest roast I’ve ever seen. I think they call it the big plate special. I feel much better after the carrots. I’ve run out of credit so my mum gets a lousy mother’s day text instead of a call. After seeing the size of the dinners, we challenge Johnny to eat the largest pudding on the menu. If he eats it, we pay, if he doesn’t, he pays us. It looked massive in the menu but it didn’t prepare us for it’s arrival. It was bloody HUGE! 8 giant scoops with brownies, milky ways and all sorts of other things in there. He heroically ate the whole thing, even licking the bowl. What a beast.
We watched a movie about a woman who has a baby in a Walmart and arrived at the venue. I was gutted, it didn’t feel like the last night of the tour, another 2 weeks would have been sweet. We got All Idols Fall up onstage with us during Mr Music Man and despite a lot of sound problems, we had a great gig. We drove back to the hotel, all gutted that the tour was ending.
- Posted on March 5, 2008 3:35 PM
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Everyone had gone out to the music shops of Birmingham and I managed to get some much needed sleep. Did a few interviews then headed out for the venue. It was a very strange gig, hard work for the 1st few tunes, but we definitely won them over by the end. In fact I really enjoyed the gig and I got to meet some new and old friends too including a singer/ songwriter I’ve become obsessed with called Perkie http://www.myspace.com/perkiekicksthings After the gig there was a club at the venue, me and Gumby and some of Anti Flag’s crew stayed on for it and let off some steam. We danced to Papa Roach, Nickelback, Limp Bizkit, ya know, the classics, and drank many drinks of differing colours before falling into a club and somehow ending up back at the hotel. Me and Gumby share a room cos neither of us snore (much) and we stayed up silly late talking about everything.
- Posted on March 4, 2008 10:23 AM
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Today was our other day off on tour so we hooked up a headline gig in Luton. Our first time in the town. A really great young oi band opened up, then another oi band and a ska band. The place was only half full but the crowd went nuts as soon as we hit the stage. We’d been passing the time by supping on a lot of wine before the show and in very high spirits we all had a great time and played for about an hour. We managed to get in a cover of ‘54-46’ and ‘Pressure Drop’ and everyone had fun. Cheers to Luton for making us feel so welcome! We voted against going clubbing and drove to Birmingham to get an early start on the gig the next day. Watched a lot of Curb Your Enthusiasm, ate a lot of pizza and generally got very rowdy on the journey there. At the hotel me and Gumby watched a show on BBC3 about childbirth that both had us crossing our legs. It was shocking and absolutely amazing, then we managed to somehow sleep soundly.
- Posted on March 4, 2008 10:20 AM
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Waking up in one of the quietest towns in Britain and then being thrust onto Oxford Street in London in rush hour is a traumatic experience. Once my head had stopped spinning I walked into the venue and we hung out with Anti Flag. There was only 2 bands on the bill tonight so we were first on. The 100 Club is a strangely shaped venue, really wide so you only see the band properly if you’re in the middle of the floor, unless you’re behind the pillar which is also in the middle of the floor. Despite that, the people that work there are great and it’s rammed full with history. It’s always an honour to play there. Tonight was no exception and we had a great show, nice to see so many familiar faces too.
We went to a nearby pub to have a few drinks and a discussion about Tom Jones then headed back to see Anti Flag. It was the best night I’d seen them the whole tour, they looked like they were having a lot of fun and the crowd loved it.
We all hung out at the venue afterwards til we eventually got kicked out and headed home.
- Posted on March 4, 2008 10:19 AM
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It was our first time in Yeovil and me and Johnny wanted to check out the town so we headed out in search of some traditional Somerset cider. We were 2 of 5 people on the highstreet, it was peaceful but eerily quiet. I asked in the off licence about the cider and the bloke behind the counter just looked confused ‘Cloudy cider? No nowhere in town does that, the priest doesn’t like it’ he angrily said to me in a thick Somerset accent. I didn’t know where to begin with this guy so I settled on the usual toxic cans that’ve never seen an apple in their life.
When we arrived back at the venue there was a football game going on with All Idols in the car park so we joined in and then a punk band called The Exposed set up and played acoustically which was brilliant. We’d started out playing to other band’s ques and had done it to the Anti Flag que in the past and it was great to see that being passed on.
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- Posted on March 4, 2008 10:18 AM
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Brighton
Set off again to Brighton all very excited. It’s become like a second home to us because it’s close by, has a brilliant punk scene and a rich activist history. And the best burger shop in Britain. We made room on the merch table for our friends Jo from Schnews and Fabien from the Smash EDO campaign who joyfully filled it up with political newsletters, books and DVD’s. I bought a Smash EDO T-shirt to wear onstage. EDO is an arms manufacturer based in Brighton and we’ve been supporting the Smash EDO resistance group for a while now- our b-side to the ‘Mr Music Man’ single is entitled ‘Smash EDO dub’.
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- Posted on March 4, 2008 10:17 AM
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Woke up in my own bed which made it very difficult to get out of, I was gutted that I was back in London so soon but excited to be seeing Mike Park, today we were secret guests at his show in Camden. We turned up and proceded to get drunk way too early. Our good friend Mike Scott was first on and he swiftly gave away the fact that we were playing. Sundowner went up next and it became obvious that the crowd were VERY polite. Clapping after each song, but not so loudly as to draw attention to themselves. We set up in the middle of the floor and played a set consiting of entirely new material which went down really well even if I did suddenly realise just how drunk I was half way through our set. We watched the always inspiring Mike Park, he’s such a great songwriter and story teller and he always makes the gig seem so personal. I’ve been a big fan of every single band he’s been in, but his solo set is my favourite. Blown away, we drove back home to eat pizza.
- Posted on March 4, 2008 10:15 AM
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We grabbed some breakfast and jumped in the back of the van, heading for the waterfront in norwich, a venue we’ve played many times and have always had a good one at. We got Pat from Anti Flag and Leon from All Idols Fall to come onstage with us and play the percussion break in ‘The Streets Are Ours’ which went down well, it wasn’t the tightest percussion ensemble I’ve ever seen but it was a nice sentiment. The crowd were brilliant for us and just went nuts the whole way through the set. We announced the anti war march on March 15th onstage and lots of people came up to us afterwards and were very interested in the details. We hung out with a lot of old friends and made some new ones and then regretfully headed back to London for the night. Got in crazy late and stayed up swopping stories with my flatmate Craig from Moral Dilemma who had also just arrived back in London midway through a tour.
- Posted on March 4, 2008 10:12 AM
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Peterborough
We all met up in London and were very excited as we hadn’t been on tour in about 2 months. We’re also in the middle of recording our 2nd album so a chance to get out and run around was just what we’d been waiting for. To say we were annoying and hyper in the van ride down is a major understatement.
We arrived in Peterborough and loaded into the venue where we met All Idols Fall and when it became apparent that both bands were worried that there would be no partying on this tour (due to Anti Flag being straight edge) we instanty clicked with them and got pissed. Anti Flag were really friendly, definitely the most welcoming headline band we’ve toured with, and we were really happy things were going so well.
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