we  arrived in bristol on wed night, very very late (accidents, closed roads, my never empty bladder) only just in time for our actual stage time, so line check, lights on, and away we went… despite such rushed beginnings we had a great time, we met some good folks including jeff, aparently a bit of legend around those parts, i think he said he had been to 300 gigs last year and was going to another after the show at the academy. hard core.  and polly, whose first ever gig it was, so we were very chuffed to have had popped her cherry (purely musically ah hem). then it was a few beers, some exeptional chicken pakora and to bed. not hard core.

our first gig in london was great, we met some fantastic people again, some of whom were very nice to take us out to lunch. our strobe packed out on us at this gig which meant that andy and i had to shake our heads even more than usual and could actually see what frets we were playing… luckily oxford had some HUGE strobes and the lights were f*cking awesome and would have made our stobe look like a disposible camera flash. everyone in oxford was so so nice and we loved the venue, turns out that the video for radioheads ‘creep’ was filmed there so i am off to watch that after this post. afterwards we ended up in a random jamican place that would not serve jamaican rum and coke (only other rum) and one of our ‘entourage’ got told off for pretending to lick a candle and that there was a sex shop down the road for that sort of thing?! we never did find the sex shop… so after the telling off it was back to the hotel where end of tour cigars were smoked, a tradition that will prevail despite the smoking ban. then back to bonnie scotland, the drive up featured a smashing pumpkin soundtrack and the last of the beer and walkers crisps were consumed. good times.

we really enjoyed the past few days and are definitely suffering some post tour depression, thanks to dave and everyone who helped pop the tour cherry and made us feel so welcome… can’t wait to head back out again and spread some more ‘acb love’.

acb x

p.s. check out the bands we were on tour with  // the volt / broadcast 2000 / the winchell riots