The Stills Day 8, Birmingham, UK

We got to Birmingham at about 3pm, rushed to load in, get some lunch, soundcheck, show, etc... The usual. What was different about today was that we had to leave immediately after the set, so we packed the bus in record time, sat down with our dinner and began the drive to Manchester. It only took a couple hours, but because of commercial drivers laws in Europe, the driver can only travel at certain times. It's kind of weird, but whatever.

So we got to Manchester around 11:30pm and decide we may as well go out, we don't have any nights off on this tour and this is as close as it'll get. We start walking one way, about 25 mins in we realize we were misdirected, so we hopped in a cab and went downtown. Once there, we still didn't know what to do, so we started asking some locals.

Oddly enough, it was the two drunk ones that had the best plan, pointing us towards a great little rock club called The Venue. We were just going to have a couple drinks, but then the managers recognized the band, turns out he's a huge fan, and we ended up staying til about 5am, listening to old school ska and reggae. Good times. We got invited back for tomorrow after the show, so we'll see what happens...