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At 8:30, groggy, I went to the Hotel cafe shop in hope of buying a coffee and bog standard oatmeal but they only have that shit sweet stuff with apple and cinnamon. Cinnamon should not even look at apple sideways. […]

26th September, 2017 It’s 157 yards to the Elevators. That’s exercise, right?I counted.I find entertainment at both ends of the day.Coffee and Quiche breakfast and a cheeky case shuffle. I’d put a couple of outfits and my DM’s on the […]

26th September 2017 This is not a happy eventuality. The plane, which was late arriving anyway and thus boarded late, has a technical issue. We have been offloaded. First come first serve for the next available flight, and we are […]

I am whining. We didn’t get a place on the next plane.We have 2.5 hours now to wait here for another.This means we will arrive at the venue at show time.No warm up hour and in the middle of a […]

26th September 2017 Touch down. On my way to the venue. Show time 9:15 pm.

27th September 2017 It was a day destined for irritation. It began well enough and we boarded the plane, no problem. Something was failing in the cockpit. It went from the engineers are coming to check, to we may have […]

I was in bed at 2am. This is a plain, utilitarian, travelling salesman hotel. Formica and nylon. I think about last night’s diary entry. The one I wrote in the car. An old school chum was on Facebook this week […]

28th September 2017 I ran a bath as much to humidify the air as to wash in. The water is tepid and falls from the tap so weakly that by the time it hits the tub it is barely that. […]

There is fine reason why I must commit myself mostly to a life of solitude on tour. Last night’s hair down was a one off event for a good while at least. We had planned to go for lunch at […]

September 30, 2017 The flight is a long one.L.A to Sydney.There may be longer flights, but I was never into that Tallest Building.Biggest Car.Endless Shrimp.Yard Of Ale business. It was a long bastard and that is plenty long enough. It […]