The Stills Day 3, Swindon and London, UK
Today was by far going to be the most difficult of the tour, so we were happy to try and get it out of the way, but it was a little stressful nonetheless. We left London fairly early, like 8am, to head out to Swindon for the first of the Kings of Leon shows. As soon as that show was over, we had to head straight back to London to play a second show in one night. Insane.
So we get to Swindon, meet everyone we need to meet and everything is great. We have full catering everyday of the tour, there's internet access, showers, great gear... essentially we're being treated like royalty, so that makes things a little easier. We were able to get all our gear loaded in pretty quickly, so then we had a lot of time to kill waiting for our 6pm soundcheck. Took a quick walk around, decided Swindon isn't really the place for us, so we headed back to the venue.
We eventually soundcheck, the show happens pretty soon after, then we hustle like no one's hustled before to get all the gear back on the bus and start the 2 hour drive to London. Show was done at 8:45, by 9:10 we were rolling. Total record for these guys.
We got to London at about 11:30, walk into the venue and it's packed. Not just busy, but totally slammed, people right up to the front of the stage. It was awesome. We couldn't even get our cases in the door, so we had to set stuff up on the side walk. So we pretty much just throw everything on stage, we had to start by 12am, and in true guerilla-punk-rock fashion, just go for it. And it worked out great. People were going nuts the whole show.
So after 75 minutes of loud rock music, we repack the bus and the record label folks brought us to this VIP style bar down the street where we hung out for a couple hours to finish the night. Couldn't get too crazy or stay out too late because we had to get up early in the morning again for the drive to Plymouth. After this, the rest of the tour will be a walk in the park.
So we get to Swindon, meet everyone we need to meet and everything is great. We have full catering everyday of the tour, there's internet access, showers, great gear... essentially we're being treated like royalty, so that makes things a little easier. We were able to get all our gear loaded in pretty quickly, so then we had a lot of time to kill waiting for our 6pm soundcheck. Took a quick walk around, decided Swindon isn't really the place for us, so we headed back to the venue.
We eventually soundcheck, the show happens pretty soon after, then we hustle like no one's hustled before to get all the gear back on the bus and start the 2 hour drive to London. Show was done at 8:45, by 9:10 we were rolling. Total record for these guys.
We got to London at about 11:30, walk into the venue and it's packed. Not just busy, but totally slammed, people right up to the front of the stage. It was awesome. We couldn't even get our cases in the door, so we had to set stuff up on the side walk. So we pretty much just throw everything on stage, we had to start by 12am, and in true guerilla-punk-rock fashion, just go for it. And it worked out great. People were going nuts the whole show.
So after 75 minutes of loud rock music, we repack the bus and the record label folks brought us to this VIP style bar down the street where we hung out for a couple hours to finish the night. Couldn't get too crazy or stay out too late because we had to get up early in the morning again for the drive to Plymouth. After this, the rest of the tour will be a walk in the park.
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