First we set sail from sunny Manchester, waiting patiently for our new tour only vinyl to arrive, which was promising to become a “Never only” vinyl, as it turned up with only ten minutes before we set off.

Sat in the back of the tour van frantically wrapping teeshirts listening to Max Tundra. The teeshirts have crocodiles and pigeons on them. They’re in Lorien’s favourite colour, baby blue, like Manchester City FC. He doesn’t like football but he went to see Prince once at Main Road stadium.

Soundchecked in Win!chester, our first port of call. Ben dons his “Feline Good” teeshirt, that makes me feel warm and cold inside at the same time. Gig was performed to art students, and some incredible hard step house was played before hand. We struggled to compete with such excellent minimalism.
Played with our visuals man for the very first time. David cracked out animated Matthew McConaughey torsos, blood, fish and pentagons to dance in time with our songs. Watched 20 episodes of re-edited episodes of Star Trek the Next Generation. Riker’s Beard on Beard is my favourite?

Cardiff. Wet, cold. Why isn’t everywhere as sunny as Manchester? Found a mechanical mammoth.
Gig with Mae Shi was brilliant. Downloaded the Jurassic Park theme to use as our new intro music. Got nice and sweaty on stage and have changed my shirt now. Hummus was on our rider. Now we have two gigs down, two hummus riders achieved. 100% Walking on stage to the sound of John Williams makes me feel like a raptor chasing children in a kitchen. I dropped Ben’s drum stands down a staircase. Drank vodka tonics and discussed Star Trek some more.

In Bristol. So rainy. I am soggy, re: earlier. Got lost. Had to look at a map that looks like it’s made out of crab. It was a cycle map though.

Played in Inspire in Coventry last night. Incredible night. Were given duck eggs for breakfast this morning. Drank Lorien’s special “Caribbean Regret and Bourbon” til 5am. Off to Worcester now!

The MIDLANDS. We’ll be covered in coal by Saturday.