London

the day before the show we had a day off, which we spent sleeping/chilling on the bus, and in the night me tom, bobby and ollie mac watched some of the first season of lost, which i've never seen before, and i'm hooked! ALSO we went outside the bus, for a chill out etc, and three blacked out people carriers pulled out and parked in a row, and i thought it was like the london mob or something and we were all going to get shot, but, it was fall out boy!! so we talked to the guitarist for a little while, it was surreal! but after that we all pretty much went to bed! when i woke up we were driving through london and were almost at the astoria! once we were outside there was no where to park the bus, so we had to jump out and take our shit inside, once we were in it was like a maze, cold dark stair cases everywhere, but we finally found the dressing rooms! after that i went for a shower, three showers one room, but it was so good after not showering for like two days, i was in there for about 40 minutes, it rocked 400%!
the actual show was packed out, 1800 tickets were sold and then there was guestlist etc so there around 2000 people in there, save your breath played and everyone was real into it, the boys played real well, despite minor set-backs, snapping strings, heads blowing! it was mind blowing to see how many people were there, and the size of the venue, definately the biggest show they have ever played!
what else was cool, was that kids in glass houses had a balloon drop at the end of give me what i want, it was insane!!!
we also did a killing on merch, there was two merch booths, one downstairs which ollie had and one upstairs which we had, but ollie ggave me a few kids shirts to sell so that more people would come upstairs, which was real reall cool of him, and it worked out super good!
after all of that we set off for oxford, leaving bobby with iain and shay in london to party!

sheffield

so we drove to sheffield after nottingham, it only took about an hour or so, the venue was pretty big and there was already a que when we got there! we also got pot noodles! bingo!
again the show was real packed out, and all the bands shredded! we did pretty good on merch, but didnt do that well on cd's as far as i rememeber! after the show there was a club night in the venue, and they had a rodeo bull thing haha!
after that me tom, bobby and ben went on the rock bus with kids in glass houses etc, we all got pretty drunk and iain tattooed black flag bars on bens leg with a needle and indian ink!
when we got to London we parked under tesco's, tesco's was also 24hr so we all got some food and hung out on the bus again!

nottingham

so after wolverhampton we drove to nottingham, and most of the boys slept on the bus, me and ryan kipped in the van and it was suprisingly warm, i even slept in my boxers!
the show was pretty sweet, and the backstage area was basically a whole club! but there was no showers, so we had to go into the girls toilets in the backstage area and strip down and was in the sinks, it was suprisingly refreshing. the show was pretty sweet too, the venue was one of the smallest on the tour, but it was packed out with kids and everyone seemed to me into all the bands! one of the main problems was that our merch was upstairs, and kids in glass houses merch was downstairs, and they at the end they wouldnt let anyone upstairs really so we hardly sold anything, we did pretty good on demos though!
after the show we all went out and went to some club/cocktail bar, well it was more of a cocktail bar! we all got super drunk, and bobby decided at 6am to take a strole around nottingham drunk out of his brains, on his way he got brought some new shoes and got his hair cut! lovely!

wolverhampton

so we got there pretty early as we also left mega early! again, we went around the town which resembled newport but bigger (which isnt a good thing) looking for cds and a print shop!
once we found our tools etc we quickly got to work in the dressing room making cd's with help from kids in glass houses and oli mac!
the show was also a hit, despite webbo getting hit with a penny!
after the show we all got drunk again and drove to nottingham for the night, i had to sleep in the van, it was not awesome!

Leeds

On our first day arriving at leeds, we made another load of cd's for the show!
the leeds show was real good, and again people seemed to be into it, but not into it enough to buy many shirts, doh! also at the end of kids in glass houses set tom went on and played guitar so iain could stagedive, classic!
after the show we got seriously fucked and everyone got fucking fucked! and i passed out and the boys hooved my face, woo hoo!

on the sunday we had a day off, which was lucky becuase i think half of us woke up still drunk! we pretty much chilled out all day and made some more cd's! in the evening we went for a curry with the boys from kids in glasses house etc and then went to the funeral for a friend show, but we were all tired and the venue was really really hot!

after the show we all chilled out at nathans and made a few more cd's etc!
we then woke up early because nathan had uni and we had to get to wolverhampton!

Manchester

so we left glasgow after staying at jess' house, she was the nicest person ever and she hooked me up with some vegan ice cream, which was amazing!
In the morning, we left for manchester real early because we had to be there for around 2ish to meet with the dude from attitcus! so after a 3 and a half hour drive we got to manchester and began to load! the venue was HUGE, just under 1000 people, which was awesome!
the boys played a sweet show and everyone seemed to be mega into it, we also did real well on shirts! we also spent alot of the day making demo's that we could sell for £1 to anyone who wanted one, we made a killing on those and it was sweet because loads of kids could go home and listen to the tracks!
after the show we drove to nathans in leeds!

so, glasgow, its pretty cold!
its real nice though, the people seem nice, its very autumish here too, lots of nice ornage and yellow leaves.
i got my foot ran over too whilst we were trying to park the van outside the packed uni entrence!
the venue is also pretty big, not as long as the venue in edinburgh but its alot wider and looks to be a good show!
me and tom owen also spent a good hour looking for another falafal place, and are making it a mission to have one at each stop on the tour! thats all i have to say±
good bye!

so day two,

we woke up at a nice and early time of 8am, to find that the celling of the van had fallen down, so with a bit of mind power and carpentery skills we fixed the dome shaped celling back to its grand stature!
so, after that, we drove to edinburgh, scotland is basically a glorified version of wales, but less cool, and even less great, although the town center did remind me of dublin, but without the spike, dublins best feature!
the venue was pretty big! full of nice young guys and gals, the future of rock as we know it! but yeah it was pretty cool that loads of people come out to the show, and also came out so early to see the supporting bands, and for buying shirts, i could go on bumming scotland but im going to stop there!
save your breaths set was explosive, and real good!
and i think we found a place to stay, il go into more detail when im not being bombared by kids wanted t-shirts, not!
peace!

So, tour day one:

Left newport at an early 6pm, we forgot some shit from stagedive so we had to go back, then we drove a sweet long drive to sams in manchester where we drank some beers and had some banter, we did some manchester things, eg, listening/watched oasis week on MTV2 and then we chiled out and went to sleep! nothing else has happened yet so i cant go on..