Last minute change of plan - The German Train Tour
Ahh, I’ve written this post twice now, but Tumblr keeps losing it.
So what happened is: the night before we were due to leave on our German tour we realised that our rental car wasn’t boked properly. We freaked out a bit, but our German booker was really helpful. He suggested we tour by train and take less equipment. And so the German train tour was born!
We’re on tour at the moment with just a ukulele and glockspiel. We had to put together the set the night before we left, we stayed up all night doing it. And it’s actually working out really well. It’s such a different feeling playing an acoustic set after being so used to having everything programmed perfectly, using electronics. I think it’s really good for us. We’ve been doing it with no PA at all, playing in the audience with everyone around us.
But in anycase we’re having a great time and people have been responding to it well. Even the somewhat confused promoters seem to be taking it well.
And traveling by train in Germany is actually really good. It’s so much less stressful than having to drive on the wrong side of the road. We’ve been watching the first season of Heros.. thanks Alistair. Need to torrent more. Will post up some stuff about the shows we’ve been playing soon!
