TOUR DIARY: Manchester [BACKSTAGE PASS: Youthmovies]

TOUR DIARY: Manchester

Posted on April 18, 2008 11:29 AM
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Wednesday – Manchester

We had to wake up in Manchester today because Al and Sam have to get to London and back before the show. Try Harder (Al's Label ) are doing a Maida Vale session, and Sam's playing trumpet with his other band Jonquil as well as whoring his shit all over the gorgeous Blanket. So we sound-check without them, we finally have our own sound engineer, Pete, which means the pressure of them not being there diverts on to him, which is great for us. It's a day of just killing time until the show, there are a lot of these… you'll often spend eight hours in the venue before you even play, it's easy to get jaded by the environment, most venues look the same so you begin to feel kind of like a goldfish. Sam and Al arrive as we go on stage, literally.

Everyone's kind of stressed and under-prepared, but it somehow converts into a really fun show… we've got a real soft spot for Manchester and never seem to have a bad time there. We meet Keeley and Rosamund, friends of our friend James (who's helping us out on merch), they have a scary amount of vitality and an overwhelming lack of inhibition, more of them later.