Sean Lennon Day 17, Carhaix, FR

4:30am comes really fast when you finish work around 2am. We dragged ourselves out of bed, sleepless, and started the day with a drive to the airport. Thankfully, as far as airport check-ins go for a band, this was pretty painless. We got on the plane and made the first flight to Paris, then ran across the airport to make our second flight to Brest.

For some reason people don't understand when you say you need an empty cargo van for 30 pieces of band gear in road cases. It doesn't fit in sedans, and no one seems to get it. This is why we were pretty frustrated to see 4 compact taxis waiting for us at the airport. Why is it so hard? After messing around with the pack for about an hour, we finally spotted a slightly bigger taxi to commandeer and we were able to go to the hotel for 30 minutes before making the 1 hour drive to the Festival des Vielles Charrues, the biggest festival in France.

So, we stop at the hotel, get into the cars to leave for the festival and 1 hour later we pull up, as scheduled. We took a quick look to make sure the gear made it, went for a quick lunch, and before we knew it, it was showtime. There were a couple glitches, like amps that died, etc... but the show ended up going really well, and the 30,000+ people in attendance loved it. And that was it, the last show of the tour. We hung around for a little while, checked out a couple other bands, had dinner, played ping pong, etc... and around 11pm we went back to the hotel. Once there, we took over the bar for our farewell drinks and crashed so we could get up early for 3 more flights in the morning...