Of course to us it all made perfect sense and we could be in stitches with the timely utterance of a single word. We did another tour of Ireland and were shocked to witness just how much the Celtic Tiger had transformed into a desperate rabbit.
It was tragic so see just how much the recession had effected peoples happiness not to mention our drinks rider. Understandably so music was not at the forefront of there minds even though we did meet many amazing people and played some great shows. We crossed back over to Corgieland and were impressed to find that the English had surpassed the Irish in there ability to consume vast amounts of alcohol. Everything was going great at our show at The Cider Shed in Norwich.
Wonderful audience smiling and enjoying the music, interrupted only by the most drunk girl in the world who kept lunging towards the stage. The band was peaking and as we looked up through our manes of sweaty slow motion hair we gazed into the audience. They looked repulsed. We wondered what we had done wrong. Had Tim forgotten the chords again? No, the drunk girl had set her sites upon a sweet elderly lady standing by the exit and slathered her in vomit as she made a desperate dash for the bathroom.
In true Blues Brothers style we kept playing. All other shows in London, Bath and Oxford were vomit free. The Cider Shed was still great fun. A little too much cider but nevertheless great fun. We were treated to an amazing audience including a lovely couple who had driven and ferried all the way from the UK especially to see the show. We tore ourselves away from the warm, hospitality of the Fagot Pub and headed back to Deutschland.
The weather was on our side and we were treated to some great sunburns and free highlights in our hair in Germany and Switzerland. Despite our greatest attempts to speak with someone else in the station they threatened us that it would be worse for us if we did. Unfazed from our brush with the dark side of the law we drove to Lausanne and performed our little hearts out in front of a beautiful church and then headed our Lausanne nanny for the nights place.
