TOUR DIARY: Carlisle Brickyard [BACKSTAGE PASS: Youthmovies]

TOUR DIARY: Carlisle Brickyard

Posted on April 18, 2008 11:21 AM
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Saturday - Carlisle Brickyard

Meeting up with Foals has a reunion feel, it's rare that any of us have the time to be in the same town, let alone the same room anymore. The love between us is pretty over the top. We all feel real paternal toward them especially Yannis and Jack who used to come round our house in their school uniforms, to listen to records and practice in our garage. Yannis' friendship and mine has been pretty key to who we are now. The Foals crowd are awesome, full of life and out to have a good time.

It turns out that none of us know how to deal with the enthusiasm of the younger members of the crowd who all think we must be stars just because we're in a touring band, they'd be pretty disillusioned if they knew the truth of us living on one service station meal a day and what ever we can justifiably steal from foals' rider. We're not the kind of band that generally gets asked to sign things, especially t-shirts or skin… there's probably a code of conduct but we got pretty carried away, at one point I decided it was permissible to sign ANDREW MEARS FROM THE BAND YOUTHMOVIES across a fifteen year old girls face in permanent marker, accompanied by choruses from her mates of 'your Dad…' (who was waiting outside in the car) '…is going to kill you'.

We leave the venue, (who treated us spectacularly), shame faced as the five crates of beer, four bottles of spirits and the excitement of being with friends we've not seen in what seems like a life time meant the that the dressing room in a far less satisfactory condition, cue Al sloping out of the front door with chive dip caked in his hair and his clothes drenched in milk. There's going to be an air of school boy regret from now on, we're not that type of band.

We stay with our new friend Lucy tonight she works at the venue and is totally awesome. Just a great girl; her parting gift to us was a five hundred piece jigsaw of Charles and Diana and a copy her awesome record Sonatine.