UK Tour Diary Day 9

Pictures of people laying down on funny stuff.

Apparently that's a thing.

I had never heard of it before,

but remember those cows I told you

about in Milton Keynes?

They're made of cement.

well...

a dude came down from

the Milton Keynes show,

to the Kettering show,

and he was showing me

pictures of the cows.

And then there were some pictures

of him laying down on the cows.

and then there were some pictures

of him laying down on other random things.

That's his thing,

he explained.

He takes photos of himself laying down on random shit.

I think it's hilarious,

and apparently its a fad.

So that brings me to Kettering.

Kettering is a classic English town,

with a classic English music venue.

It's my third time there,

ad we had a great crowd,

and a wild party,

and a wild after party.

and I got stoned and drunk

and slept on a mattress in the pub

and jammed on the drums with the local dudes,

and it was all a hoot.

The show was a blast,

crazy people shouting out crazy

things, and one crazy dude named Mike.

It was Mike's twenty first birthday,

and in keeping with some bizarre

tradition that seems to have popped

up on this UK tour, he decided to come up

onstage and get naked.

I promise you, this was with no prompting from me.

I don't particularly like it or dislike

it when random dudes get naked onstage.

It certainly makes it a memorable experience,

but it makes it hard to keep control of the show.

once some dude takes his pants off,

it's hard to bring the songs back

to clever ditties about Spanish.

So Mike was drinking pretty hard all night, I assume,

he came up to play tambourine, one thing

led to another, and next thing I know he is

showing the audience his larger-than-normal

left testicle.

what do you do with that?

I guess you keep playing.

And you hope that Ed got

the whole thing on video.

he did.

Oh,

and after the show,

Mike passed the fuck out

on a bench in the Pub.

I took the opportunity

to snap a photo for the dude

who came down to the show from Milton Keynes.

-p