Interesting day. Weather was glorious and we were headlining a fairly small outdoor festival in France. It was a rural location with horse training grounds etc. Bizarre!
We drove through the night as usual so woke up within the festival grounds. We a great sized dressing room with drinks and snacks etc so all good. Massive (Australian band I mentioned in a previous post) played around 2pm and were great! So much energy especially considering they drove overnight from London that morning after supporting The Quireboys at Kentish Town Forum!
So great location, all good. Lunch was apparently now available so most of us went to check it out. Lots of plates of various meats and one dish of veggy cous cous...all of it covered in flies. Not ideal. Oh well, can't win them all.
We were using the time to chill in the dressing room. I got my laptop out and wrote a blog post and uploaded a drum video. So Wi-Fi though so i had to tether to my phone and it's 4G signal. The things I do for you guys!
It became apparent that the bands were all running late and we discovered that one band had a delayed flight and would be arriving late. Luckily the legend that is Brian Downey agreed to fill their slot with his Live And Dangerous band - who were essentially a Thin Lizzy tribute/covers band. Sadly everything was still running late and it became apparent that if the delays kept continuing we would probably be hitting the stage around 90 minutes after our set time. As it was a Sunday evening we weren't too keen on going on so late so enquired about swapping with another band. Fortunately, one of the bands agreed to swap with us. But it meant we had to go on next after Brian Downey so it was all hands on deck to get the gear setup as quickly as possible on the side of the stage. I didn't mind as I got to watch Mr Downey whilst setting up...Could be worse!
The show went really well and the crowd were really responsive! In hindsight I agree it was wise to play when we did, the sun went down during our set so I imagine that added some drama, but the main benefit was that the entire crowd were still there! Sadly, as it was a bit of a rush I didn't get chance to set up and prepare my GoPro so no footage from this show sorry.
We all managed to grab a shower but nobody fancied any of the catering as like at lunch, everything was covered in flies. Luckily, the kitchen staff said they had specially prepared vegan meals for me and the other veggies in the party. Not sure what it was supposed to be but it reminded me of a chicken casserole or something like that, but with fake meat of course. It was actually super tasty!
The boys went to buy burgers from the main festival site and were generally happy except that the French don't cook them as much as we do in the UK so there was blood galore - gross!
Meanwhile, Todd and Tyla did an interview with some Muppets...
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2cgRLUDMkx/?igshid=1u94ux59vqfwl
To be continued...
(I'm already running behind with these posts but I will endeavour to keep them going!)
Sounds like fun. Thank you for doing these blogs
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