I’m pretty sure today is Tuesday.  It is 4:45 am and I have been wide-awake for almost two hours.  I have finished reading the only novel I have with me and have seen the BBC news run through its 20 minute news reel at least three times.  Thankfully, my Mac has some battery left and I can turn to this blog for some chat.

It’s been a pretty crazy week, even by my travel standards.  Last Tuesday, one week ago, I awoke at 5am near Coff’s Harbour, Australia, and was driven to the local airport for a flight to Sydney, where I would board the Air Canada flight to Vancouver and Toronto.  I met up with Sean and Bob and the lads a few hours later and the GBS bus rolled overnight to the US Border and onto Bloomington, Indiana. 

Immediately following the show that night we rolled to Cedar Falls, Iowa, where Sean and I played on a local lunchtime TV show.  After a sound check and a show in Cedar Falls, we bolted overnight to Chicago and at 4:45 am loaded into a morning TV station for another TV appearance. Following two shows at the legendary House of Blues, I dashed to Chicago Airport and flew to London Heathrow and started two days of meetings, fittings and training for the Robin Hood film project.

In a few hours, when the rest of the area wakes up, I have more film commitments to meet before boarding a flight to Boston, where I’ll overnight to catch an early morning connection to Halifax where I’ll meet the lads again and drive to Moncton for the start of the Atlantic Canadian weekend of the Fortunate Tour, which, should place me on Newfoundland soil at noon on Friday.  Crazy days.

Jet lag and missing the Fair One and Prince aside, its been a really fun time.  The shows at the HOB were fantastic.  We did back to back days and I figured there would be a lot of folks who’d attend both nights.  So I ventured to feature almost completely different set lists each performance.  I believe, Tonight and Here and Now, from the FF CD, along with Paddy Murphy, Consequence Free, and Ordinary Day were the only tunes to be played both nights.  Quite a testament to the catalogue that 16 years on the road affords a band, I suppose.  Grand nights, both of them.  Many thanks to all hands for coming out.

Really looking forward to the dates to come with Spirit of the West.  They have been friends and heroes of ours for a long time.  I know that John and Geoffrey and the gents are big fans of the East Coast, especially St. John’s so it will be quite a treat to host them in the town we love so well.

5:04 am.  Still dark outside.  Should not jog in the dark in a strange place.  Two hours to go before breakfast.  Everyone I know in North America should be fast asleep. 

Back to the BBC, I suppose. 

Cheers,

Alan