A few days later.

So the past couple days have been fun. After Hull we traveled to a city called Middlesbrough, a small town just north of the moors. We took our sweet time getting there, driving through said moors and eventually ended up in a town called Whitby, right on the coast. The main attraction in Whitby is an ancient abbey and cemetery, right on some cliffs overlooking the ocean, which was incredible to see. After that we went to the venue, which was a social club rented out by a guy for the night, a regular series put on to bring bands to the town. The crowd was big (about 1oo) and drunk, so it was a great time. We managed to sell 180 in merchandise, so not only a fun night but a really nice bonus. The venue also treated us really well, feeding us a decent meal and put us up in a hotel. After the show we killed a bottle of scotch and passed out at around 4AM.

It was also notably April 1st, which of course means April Fools pranks. They got me. Emanuel pretended to get a call from our booking agent, and acted as if the British customs agents were upset that I hadn't declared my cello when entering the country and had preemptively cancelled our shows, and that we had to cancel the tour. In retrospect it was definitely not believable, but at the time it seemed somewhat credible. The best came later that night. We called our label owner, telling him that Emanuel had been arrested on suspicion of drug possession, and that we needed $5000 to bail him out. He bought it completely.

After Middlesbrough we drove to Bradford, about 2 hours away. It was an uneventful trip, just 2 hours or so, and the show itself was in a beautiful old theater with excellent sound. We didn't sell as many CDs, but apparently 70 people were there, so that's always good. Afterwards we lost Emanuel, but that was fine, we found him again the next day.

Now we're in Guildford, just south of London. Hope the show goes well.