well we’ve been to amsterdam and france to do a little tour. it was really great and then here are some photos from our excursion…the ferry from dover. and then we arrived in amsterdam! we played the show for the “London Calling” Festival. which was cool because we’re from London. then we went to Lille… here are some photographs of backstage…  ”Spike” was doing sound for us again, after missing the UK dates, and well here he is with “T” (our back-line technician) Alex (tour manager) and SPikebefore every show, robbie warms up for 2 hours. max tries to join in sometimes… but he’s always too LOUD before every show, will sleeps for 2 hours, and then we went to paris, and played the best venue in the world, La Cigale.   we tried out some real-life TOURISM In Nantes, they had the best microwaves ever.  P.S. in the 1999 les inrocks tour the line up there was Pavement + Flaming Lips + Muse + Guests . robbie and me said “wow! ” ps. we were touring with the ting tings and black kids and late of the pier. Now as much as i love “shut up and let me go” … the whole thing was a massive headfuck…  We drove to the last venue of the tourwe had the day off so i walked 7km along this canal into Toulouse. there were some nice little views the soldiers had breasts on the war memorial…. (sorry)fountain i found Alex celebrated our day off, until he collapsed into his little bunk. and his hand, well it stuck and stuck out hard.  we played the show the next day,here’s a picture of max reflecting on the wonderful european adventure ps. the shows were really good. the food was really really good. the line up was good because there was a lot of diversity it felt…  the singer of black kids gave me this Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair album which i’d highly recommend, but the title i forgot. we played:Colourful LifeTime FallsFive daysFrozen GirlAmylaseDinosaurThe RaceThe Hill, The View and The LightsThe Next Untouchable  there are probably videos on YOUTUBE and PHOTOS on FLICKR if you want to study the subject further… BACK TO WRITING SONGS!! xdaniel