Sean Lennon Day 17, Lisbon, POR

Today was one of those days. The bus couldn't fit down the tiny streets around the "venue", so we wasted the first 90 minutes loading everything from the bus into a passenger van in a parking lot somewhere. Then we get to Santiago Alquimista, the "venue", and it doesn't even come close to meeting our tech requirements. It's like if you need an Airbus 340 to fly across the Atlantic, but they give you a de Havilland Dash 8 Turbo Prop. It was awesome. Really. It was. It only took 4 hours to do a 1.5 hour setup.

The saving grace was that their crew was willing to do whatever we needed to get the basic things happening so we could at least put on a show. I even got to do lights too. Good times.

We did have a good dinner though. The promoter made a reservation for us at an incredible Portuguese place down the street. It's the only thing that made the day more bearable.

After the show, we had to do everything in reverse, back to a parking lot to reload the bus, then we tried to go out after but there wasn't a whole lot happening. We really had high hopes for Lisbon, but it just didn't come together... Maybe tomorrow...