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MONDAY 16TH - TUESDAY 17th
Today I had to be separated from the
band to go to Moscow for meetings with Sony and others… mainly
to dicuss the plans for the next CD and the film that was shot of
the last "mini-tour" in May. So after lunch everyone went
sight-seeing and I packed and worked before I had to leave to get
my train. St. Petersburg is a beautiful city (in a completely different
way from Moscow) and I will look forward to seeing it more closely
when we come back next April.
During dinner Yatta, Paul and Aron walked in wearing typical Russian
fur hats and looking like genuine tourists so the mood was good…
which sometimes means that trouble is lurking somewhere!
So off I went to the train station with Vitaly and our eternal friend
Alexander Kolesnikov came along to make sure I found the right cabin
etc…
This was a fast train (about 7½ hours) though not the fastest
and it left on time at 10:25 pm. It was fairly comfortable and I
slept for about 4 hours before we arrived at 6:09 am… on the
17th of course!! Eugene Koltunov from Sony was there (actually on
the train!) to meet me and we went to the Hotel Russia which would
be my "home" now for two days.
After trying to sleep for a while I gave up (the phone wouldn't
stop ringing…) and got ready for the long day ahead.
The main item was to discuss the new recording plans and a strategy
that would be specifically for the Russian releases and even though
this was a long meeting it went well and I think we have a good
plan. We also spent some time looking at film from the last shows
here with the idea of editing it for a future DVD release…
I'll have more news on this at a later date.
The footage is actually very interesting with some nice stuff from
sound checks and backstage, the only problem is the sound quality
on the show footage but we may be able to clean that up a bit and
make it very special!!
Next day...
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