Sometime Around Midnight on the Late Show with David Letterman
Originally aired on January 16, 2009.
UK 30 Shows in 30 Days: Day 27 - We’ve seen a lot of sheep…
From NME.com.
As we close in on our last few shows here in the UK, we’re struck by the sheer volume of bands we’ve played with this month (around 80). The new friends we’ve kidnapped in a whiskey-fueled haze and brought to our next gig in the van. The omnipresent line-drawings of dicks on the wall of every green room at every club. The ubiquitous light rain. The superiority of English bacon… and footwear.
We’re immune to the beauty of English landscape—the sheep, the hedges, the stone and brick houses in quaint constellations. Our conversation has devolved into endless jokes about crying, punching, freaking out, screaming.
But we still look forward to the point each night when the sound has been checked, the tuning pedals clicked off, and we start the set. There’s really nothing like it.
And every night, the faint blue glow of the Travelodge sign…
Our last night at Dublin Castle in London was a rollicking, boozy and crowded finale to the residency. Mikel jumped off the stage and Anna’s viola got a new scar. We drank, sweated, swore and danced.
We think we may miss this place of numberless buildings and unnamed streets that lead nowhere…
UK 30 Shows in 30 Days: Days 20-26 - The Last Week
From NME.com.
Nottingham, Barrow in Furness, Stoke on Trent, Cardiff, Bristol, London (again), Sheffield, and Preston — all behind us, and so now we’re officially in the home stretch. Admittedly, we’ve fallen off in posting these things, as we’ve grown more and more exhausted and unable to do much else besides eat, drink, play shows. Leading up to our last London show, we’ve had particularly memorable nights in Nottingham, Barrow in Furness, and Cardiff.
Everyone kept scratching their heads at us whenever we mentioned we’d be playing Barrow in Furness, but we had an excellent show and met some really interesting people. Cardiff was fucking crazy, for no real reason except that we felt especially loopy and decided to play an entire song in the audience. It turned out to be our most ambitious post-show night outside of London so far, stumbling down cobblestone roads until four in the morning. That one pretty much set the tone for this next slew of shows.
It’s been a while since our last posting, and since then, we’ve been coping better than expected. Call it a higher plane, or some kind of controlled insanity, but it works somehow. The last London show was sufficiently …
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