UK Tour Diary Again

It's been fun.

I played last night
in Blackburn.

a small town in the northwest of England.

I took a walk,
to a shop,
to buy some
cigarettes for Ed.

I needed a walk.

Five blocks from the venue,
I saw two heroin addicts,
one prostitute,
and one guy in a phone booth,
who wasn't using the phone.

I don't know what,
in the hell,
he was doing.

But it was a weird place.

The gig went well,
really well.

I played with the
Whiskey Bastards.

A four piece
pirate punk band.

They were outside
drinking a bottle of
vodka and doing poppers
with their relatively hot
entourage of suicide girls.

Lot's of poppers.

Poppers,
if you don't know,
are amyl nitrate,
kind of like sniffing glue.

It's a small bottle
of liquid that smells
like paint thinner.

You open it,
hold it to your nose,
and inhale the toxic fumes.

It makes you giggle
your head off,
like a bong hit
of nitrous.

In the States,
they are used mostly
by gay men.

Apparently it eases
the moment of anal
penetration,
and makes orgasms
feel like you're getting
a blowjob on a roller coaster.

Over here,
they're used
by pirate punk bands
and their ladies,
out on the dance floor,
during my set.

Blackburn was hilarious.

..

I think I mentioned something
about the Giant's Causeway.

It's in Ireland,
and it's a big,
completely unexplainable,
collection of stacked up
hexagonal rocks.

There's no way to
get it across without
seeing it.

you should google
Giant's Causeway,
when you have a second.

Ireland is solid,
but I was glad to get back
to England.

I played a gig in Preston,
kind of my home town over here.

It was awesome,
you should have seen
the girl on the tambourine,
she played in Porn Star,
and no one in the audience
was watching me a bit.

My battery is dying,
and I'm coming down
off the joint I smoked
this morning before
I went to watch the BMX races.

Tonight is another gig,
this makes eight so far
since last Sunday,
with twenty six more to go.

Then it's back home,
two days off,
and off to Buffalo,
and down the East Coast
to Florida.

Ah.......

-p