After a triumphant time supporting Hall and Oates in America for 10 weeks we played the final show together at The Hollywood Bowl. It was a fantastic way to end a tour. Squeeze then hit a few fill in shows and flew home to mop up the feelings of a very long tour. I was […]
I have said so much about the past and documented it in detail, and from this window ledge of contentment I jump into the gentle breeze of freedom. On tour the journeys are getting more and more ridiculous but I signed up for that as explained in my last post. We drove from Santa Rosa […]
Like always I reflect and think how foolish I was not to look at the tour routing more carefully when it first came into my in tray all those months ago. It’s often the case. You get the dates and you sit at home and go well let’s pack our bags. As I get older […]
Having just played support to Hall and Oates in New Jersey the band buses drove back to New York for the final night of our stay in the city. I went downstairs and ordered a fresh Lemonade and a Pizza, both were delicious and naughty, just before bed, but I didn’t care and forced myself […]
I have sat in so many dressing rooms over the years and waited for the knock on the door, the call to arms. Being in lockdown has been like that, a dressing room of home. Im not sure I want to go back to the real World although I really want to, I have mixed […]
I wake at 6.45 and wait to hear the sound of footsteps on the stairs, followed by a kettle boiling and coffee being scooped into a cafeteria. The sun is shining across the room everything seems good. Outside i can hear a Pheasant, outside i can hear movement as the Village comes slowly into life. […]
When the world in which you live in, gets a bit too much to bear, and you need someone to lean on, when you look, there’s no one there you’re gonna find me, out in the country, yeah, you’re gonna find me, way out in the country. Today we saw just below 9 hours of […]
On my way back from a rare visit to London i drove past Heathrow Airport and witnessed empty car parks on the perimeter roads and no planes on the runway ready for takeoff. I found that very sad indeed. It was dark and wet, the day was wearing thin, everything seemed wrapped up in a […]
Hearing the children in the playground this morning made me think about how innocent life can be, running around screaming and shouting bumping into each other and holding on to your mates in a wrestle. The sound reminded me of 1973 when i was at Maxine’s house in Blackheath when i first met Glenn and […]
7 Bells ring out from St Peters Church just up the hill and village life begins, outside I can hear the cockerel across the way, rooks shouting from a nest, rooks shout. Birds sing in the smaller trees, apart from that nothing. The house is still, the […]