Seriously, what is up with my body needing so much sleep at the moment? Anyway, woke up late and eventually met the band 25 minutes later than planned but they were kind of expecting it - it's almost like they tell me an earlier time, expecting me to be late, or something.
5 hour trip to Torquay (Gaf drove us all), easy trip fuelled by good tunes and burgers. Best and easiest set-up for a gig ever; turn up, glorious hotel venue with huge performance space, lovely house kit being soundchecked rigorously by the team there, check in to apartment (which is attached to the same hotel), soundcheck with so much ease it was almost unreal, have lovely steak dinner on the house with our manager, watch telly for a bit, play pool for an hour, have a beer and then watch the act on before us. We were headlining this event and in industry terms apparently it's quite an important one, but we can't think about things like that - every gig has to be consistent.
Still, it really was amazing...all seated audience, sold out, played incredibly well thanks to the superb sound and the fact that we were just bouncing off the crowd. 70 minute set, standing ovation at the end, lots of CDs sold and signed. Remarkably great, that one, can every gig be like that, please?
Partied till 3am before making the short stagger back to our apartment. Perfection, in perfect company.
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