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Man From Michael <officialmanfrom>

	London /Liverpool	725 days ago
	It’s amazing how certain things on the first leg of our tour have sort of moulded into one long, continuous memory. I’m writing this a week after our gig at the Water Rats in London, and I can’t seem to remember where we travelled from that morning. I’ve just this minute looked at our list of tour dates and realised it was Brighton, but it just goes to show what a tour does to your head! We’ve played Water Rats several times before and always enjoyed it; last Thursday was no exception! The place was full and since we only knew about ten of the people there it meant we were playing to an audience made entirely of potential new fans – or a load of guys who’d hate it! Either way it felt great performing to a packed house, especially after the modest turn-out in Brighton. It was either the sheer numbers which spurred us on to play our best gig of the tour so far, or just the excitement of the impending “Home Gig” aboard the Boat in Liverpool that gave us the extra lift that we all craved. Friday morning was sticky. After a horribly early start due to the foul stringency on parking in London, we got started on our journey home. A stop at the delightful services in Stafford provided a frankly unmissable opportunity to purchase some warm humous, stale ciabatta and bottled tap water. Yum yum. At about half 3 we arrived at our final venue. I’m not sure how to describe this boat really. Having driven past it numerous times coming out of the Mersey Tunnel, it’s just so hard to believe you could play a gig in there – and for 150 people – but the place is like a Tardis. In retrospect I’m slightly concerned that the band got upstaged by the fucking boat, but in any case, I can’t see many people forgetting that gig in a hurry! As that annoying kid in the 80s Bernard Matthews Turkey Drummers advert said, “It’s good to be home, mum.” – if only for a short while.
	posted by Man From Michael