AFTER a decent breakfast at the hotel I sit out on our room’s balcony and get some work done before we hit the road.
Not too long ago drive to Torva and we’ve not arranged to be at our ‘accommodation’ ‘til 3pm. We have lunch at a nice wee coffee shop in the centre of town then find the place we’re staying.
The guy there seems nice enough. There’s a load of folks sitting round the kitchen table drinking beer and we’re shown upstairs to our room. Uh-oh – it’s the ‘junk room’ with a skinny mattress on the floor covered in a random selection of kids’ blankets and stuff. Fuck. Too late to say “sorry, we’re gonna drive somewhere and find a hotel”.
We sit with our ‘host’ and various pals/family members. Seems they’re all involved with Pubi Juudas in some way….but none of them are coming to the show. It’s all a little weird.
The venue is great..and it’s a nice surprise that our pal Al is in Cry Baby – the other act on the bill. Venue owner Elton and sound guy Kevin are cool too and there’s a lovely spread of food and stuff backstage.
It’s a fairly quiet gig audience-wise but there’s a decent enough bunch of folks who’ve travelled to see me and we do well on merch.
We’re back at our accommodation just before 2am and luckily everyone seems to have gone to bed. Unsure if the blankets and stuff on the floor are clean we sleep in our clothes, hoodies pulled up and off to sleep….
