Hello from Manchester! We are a few dates into our UK tour with Tokyo Police Club and all is well. They aren’t from Tokyo or even police officers, but are rather quite genteel, well-heeled Canadians. They are also a fantastic band.
But rewinding a few weeks, on our US tour this spring with Black Kids & Cut Copy something magical happened - I learned how to snap. Powerfully. Powerful, overpowering snapping. Something about 10 hour drives through Wyoming in both directions… anyway, I have since been impressing everyone in my path with my new ability, or at least impressing myself.
However, there are still several important things I can’t do:
* snap with my left hand
* whistle, at all
* drive a stickshift
What that last one means is that, without our beloved Captain Ryan Pardey along for this tour, Peter has graduated to Full-Time Mobius Band driver. He’s not particularly happy about this, but to his credit, Peter is the most gifted van driver I’ve ever seen. And that includes several who actually make a living doing it. Yesterday he pulled into an impossibly narrow, darkened alleyway in Leeds with such style and ease that it brought a tear to my eye. Some people were just born with it.
June 6th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Driving with a shift stick is easy.
Automatic gear boxes are for woosies lol
Looking forwars to King Tuts….
See ya there