adrienne's Tour Diary

This time around there are three rows of seats in the van. I sat in the first row behind the driver on the way out to Bath, fading in and out of consciousness as my brain adjusted to the new time zone. Right outside the car park we left the van in was the 'Catherine Public Convenience,' which translated to 'Coin-operated self-cleaning public toilet.' Each of us experienced it except for W.
Moles was one of our favorite venues from last year's tour, with the backstage cavern, drums tucked into a pocket on the stage, Gareth and the dancing crowd. It being our first UK show on the tour, there were power conversion issues. I went to Sainsbury's Local after the soundcheck to buy batteries for one of Dan's pedals, but they didn't work. The theory is that they're back-up for storing settings, not for powering the pedal. At any rate, they didn't do anything but make the pedal much heavier. Dan lent G his power converter for his keyboard, and the extra power converter didn't do a thing. We switched around the set-list and planned shopping for Friday. Steveless went on first, their keyboard propped up by a stack of beer crates.
We played next and included Joy Division's 'Disorder' in our set for the John Peel tribute. After The Sugars' rocked out their set Gareth Dj'd to the dancing crowd and we joined them. A man named Ollie who I spoke to at our Mezzanine show in San Francisco last year was at the show - he lives here and had been on a work trip in San Francisco. El mundo es un panuelo.