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On the road again…Posted on Saturday April 26, 2008 at 8:46pm

After rehearsing solidly for most of March, this week saw us back out on tour around the UK. First night in Cambridge was a confidence booster thanks to a very enthusiastic and excitable crowd.

Following the cancellation of TNPs’ gig in Manchester on Monday, we ended up having a rather relaxing day at the city’s XFM studios for our session with Inspiral Carpets’ almost legendary keyboardist Clint Boon. Shortly after our arrival we discovered the table football, er, table, and were introduced to a healthy selection of cold beers from the adjacent fridge. Dom turned things around from my initial pounding of his team to win 2-1 overall in a best of 3 matches.

On Tuesday we headed up to Newcastle to see our good friends at Get Involved. We stayed in a flat above the venue which was amazing. I left the aftershow party to go to a house party across town and ended up sleeping on a sofa about the size of a shoebox.

The next day some of us went to ogle such magnificent inventions as the Yamaha Teniri-on in a local music shop, then headed off to York for a very enjoyable and surprisingly well attended homecoming-gig-of-sorts at The Junction. Most important discovery of the evening was that Rocky bars should be on our rider ALL THE TIME.

Unfortunately we have pretty much forgotten to take any photos, but rest assured we’ve also had fun in towns such as Sheffield (see below), London, Portsmouth and Birmingham with our friends Forward, Russia and new friends Errors (ace instrumental band from Glasgow). A couple of underage gigs in Doncaster and Leeds (with Operator Please) went slightly awry but can, I suppose, be written off as educational (ie. kids hate us).

Here’s a photo of us frolicking on the beach in Portsmouth taken by our lovely soundman Dan Kiener: