When the shit goes down....

A lot has happened between this and the last post. JFATSW completed a tour supporting Iron and Wine with great gigs in Belfast (a city that I found amazingly interesting bruised and battered as it is), Dublin, London, Cardiff (the best of the lot), Brighton, Nottingham and finally Reading. The tour was a good one, the cities interesting and the other band lovely, but it was still hard... I find the whole process of touring really hard, truth be told. Though the 40 minutes on stage is always incredible, I get little sleep on foreign soil and I feel consistently far away and disconnected. Hopefully this will all get easier.... I did take a photo of some nuns eating a burger king, so it wasn't all tough.

Back on terra firma things are great. I've finally moved in to my house in K town and am unpacking when and where I can. There are a few teething problems with the place but its nothing I can't get my head around. In other news The Box is getting a whole world of airplay, Jo Whiley the latest to give it the thumbs up, and we played the most amazing gig at Madam Jojo's a couple of nights back - a real homecoming. My favourite thing about the night was that a girl in the front row attempted to mouth the words of every song we played but actually knew very few. Her attempt at outdoing her mates must have seemed to the casual observer as a rather polite but still distressing case of Tourette's. Beware you young fans.... I'm watching you closely!

So, its off to Paris for a gig on Saturday and then Seattle straight after that to finish the album... It should be fun work, although not as fun as was going to Primrose Hill on a rare night off with my girlfriend to watch London's multifarious fireworks displays on the 5th of November. That was a pretty glorious evening, and its that sort of stuff that I get excited about. I think in primary school that would qualify me as being 'Gay'. What can you do...?

Best be off then,

hope anyone reading this is good and well,

Matty