Some days In the life on tour

Some days In the life on tour

Posted on 19th December 2010

Weather forecast as we arrived in Cardiff not good for that night(Thursday).Lovely crowd though and then off to Maidstone for the next show. Very cold but no snow as was predicted.An hour after the truck pulled out down it came and Cardiff was almost impossible to get out of.We'd had to cancel Maidstone the year before because of the snow so we were pleased to all get there especially on the busiest Friday night of the year on the roads.-6 degrees when we left there for Bournemouth at 11.30pm Phone call at 1 30am to say the truck had broken down 20miles outside Maidstone.The load in for the BIC was scheduled for 9am on the Saturday.The breakdown service arrived at 3am and were unable to fix the problem so they moved the truck to Chievley services on the M4.Tristan,our ex sound engineer took a smaller truck from Clevedon at 7 30am and cross loaded some equipment from TBTD's vehicle and managed to get down to the Bic at noon despite terrible weather conditions.Ollie and Max's dad ,Ian, phoned another driver who then left Bournemouth in his tractor unit and picked up our trailer.He got back to the Bic at 3pm with the rest of the gear.Everyone in the crew did an amazing job in getting the show up on time and a wonderful evening was had by all.The BIC ,when it's rocking is a great sight from on stage. At 1am the crew and truck left for Plymouth. The truck arrived 10hours later! Lack of gritted roads was the main problem. We're all here now ready for sound check at 6pm and then we've got a day off,providing we can get back home tonight. It's only rock&roll but we like it! Sorry to everyone who didn't make it to the Bic. Trevor