sleep be damned…just 20 minutes please…just….zzzzzzz

So I have been playing some shows with me friends Kila and having a great laugh. They really are uber nice people and the best fucking musos I have ever seen hit the stage. It is so surreal to sit backstage drinking tea and eating sandwiches while listening to Dee and Eoin warm up before they go on, a small private seisun. When I was touring around oz in rock bands I used to listen to Nick Cave boatman’s call and Kila’s tog e go bog e on repeat as we flew down the highways at a million miles and hour. I was always amazed by their music. Whenever i am down i just have to listen to Kila or Rodrigo y Gabriela and i am smiling again.

Anyway on Saturday i played a show with Kila and watched them play. I got back to my hovel and slept for an hour before getting a lift to the airport to fly to paris. I arrived on the one hour of sleep and went straight to a radio interview. I remember nothing except speaking Franglais and falling asleep in between questions. I got 20 mins sleep at the office of my agent and then headed to soundcheck. I caught another 20 mins sleep as the first band prepared for soundcheck.

I was already exhausted before this and pretty much run down. Now i felt like a zombie out on the lash after 50 pints. I floated onto the stage and started to play…first song fine…second a bit strange…third my hand seemed to have a lag to my brain and i made a few mistakes on guitar.

I then entered the surreal world of out of body playing. I remember trying to get back inside the songs and communicate them as best i could.

The crowd were great and it was nice to see people who had been emailing and people from previous shows. I just hope the show was good, i really can’t remember to much of it. I was a bit down afterwards because i had been practising lots for weeks before and i always get down unless i play brilliant shows. People came up afterwards and said they liked it so hopefully it was just how i was feeling.

Thanks to everyone who came along to the last few shows.

Nina Nastasia was great too and seemed a very nice person. Her guitar playing is great.