Hey, back again so soon! Leaving home seems to get tougher the older i get, yet the touring is mostly fun and it provides a reason, it answers some questions, it sometimes ticks a few boxes. The flight was hard work, its me, i know i make it hard work but how can i change the things i can not change. Even in a bigger seat the flight seems ever more challenging. I was picked up by my friend Robert at the airport upon arrival, it only seemed like yesterday when i was here in San Francisco. Another tour, the one that got away. Robert drives a wonderful Rolls Royce and jet fried i passenger on route to the hotel in Saratoga. A fine small town with clear air and trees, the hotel is cosy and homely its a treat, a great way to start this tour. Our first show supporting the B52’s is a respectful one, the crew worked hard, the band worked hard and out new TM made light going of it all it a brilliant way. Calm has reached the camp. Glenn seemed in the middle of the show, talking to the audience and being Glenn. Happy to play some new songs and they went down well. We played in daylight hours, people were mostly walking in to the venue when we went on, but it seemed ok to me and by the end of our set everyone was up dancing and being in the middle with Squeeze, our hits worn like comfy sweaters on a cold day, respect flowing all around. Back stage we met the Bees and they seem like good people, i saw a few songs from their set, all good, all nostalgia in a costume change. Show one down and the Squeeze carry on team lives to tell another tale. Jet lag stings but tomorrow is another day. The tour bus is white and narrow the inside if like a show flat from a council estate in Brockley south London, the older buses were like palaces, these new ones are colder somehow. New monitor man, really good job. New songs, a risk worth taking, more risks please. Leaving home gets tougher every time, back home they are just waking up getting ready for school and walking the dog, back home life goes on, it will all be there when i get back. Out here nothing much changes either, just the way i hear things and the way it all falls into place, im so slow, im sorry. I miss you.