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DAY EIGHTEEN
Left Augsburg at 8:15 this morning
for the (relatively) short drive to Gerolzhofen which is near Wurzburg.
After a quick nap to catch up on lost sleep, we were at the venue
and ready to move in. Once again the promotion was lousy and we
are expecting a small crowd but we have made some changes for the
next tour so we won't have this problem again. Just about everything
about this tour has been excellent, the band, the bus, the crew,
the performances, the local promoters, the venues, the audiences
have all been fantastic but, as Martin says, "you are only
as strong as your weakest link" and unfortunately the weak
link has let us down rather badly. Still, it's a "bump in the
road" and Monster Productions is already working hard on the
next tour!
As it happens the show was really good and the people loved it.
It has been a wonderful thing to receive so many compliments from
so many fans and friends and to meet so many new ones too. And I
am really happy that we are seeing so many younger fans who seem
to have a deep appreciation of music that was originally created
before they were born!!
And now it's time to head "home". The journey from here
to the ferry at Calais will take around 10 hours so there's time
to sleep and write to you all and catch up with e-mail etc…
along the way we will drop Ade and Dave off at Frankfurt airport
as Ade has a gig in Dublin and Dave is love-sick!!
The ferry ride is only 1 hour and 30 minutes and then we will overnight
in Dover as Bob will have reached the end of his legal driving hours.
Early Friday morning we can watch England beat Brazil (sorry Rod!)
and then take the 13 km drive down to Deal to prepare for the show
on Friday (I'm losing track of the days again!) After a fairly long
trip around Europe, it will be good to be in England and interesting
to experience the difference in the audiences, etc.
…and tomorrow I am going to have the guys each write a paragraph
to you which they failed to do last time!! Bye for now…
Next day...
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