Birmingham – April 22nd 2012

“Could you paint me a Birmingham?”

Reggie picture on the right^ and I seem to have the same itch to explore cites while the others like to be “phone guys”, nap or go to the casino when we finish loading in at venues and have time to spare. This was the best exploration we have had so far, mostly because we got lost.


Just trying to fit in with all you normal people.

I am just beginning to look the right direction when crossing the street. Some cities give me a little help.

Almost bought these for an Uno stake.

 

Once we got back to the show, it was pretty packed, most of the people at the show just stood around, I decided to spice things up and did a front flip into the band gear. Dancing Dale pictured below is one heck of a dancer, all types really, he lacks stamina but woops ass in the pit and steals the show when we go out to night clubs after the shows.

To the left of that photo is Adam and his girl. I like Adam, you can’t tell from this photo but he is a total hardass all the time. He doesn’t pick on people just a real harsh personality, I like it. I just found out he was straight edge the 6th day of hanging out with him.
Of course we been playing uno, duh! I started off the night with a run into town with the dog to buy everyone that played chicken burgers. It wasn’t the cold, distance, nor the money that really bothered me it was the trouble getting back. I was running around cemeteries, hookers following me and its the gun crime capital of the uk; I was lost for about an hour before I made it back. When I got back, the feast Naomi made all the boys was gone. I was so mad and hungry but she came through and made me my own special serving. 
Other Uno stakes played that night were everyone who plays gets to kick a soccer ball at the loser and loser had to eat an egg raw and whole.

Sheffield – April 21st 2012

Again, The trees are sweet.

After we loaded into the gig we went out for a walk to Greegs. I love the pasties.
Ricky and I spotted a party place down the road so we stopped to look for some uno stakes.


  
Lucas??
James with the bassist of NTB.


I always make fun of Reggie for knowing every vegan person in the world. He seems to meet up with random vegan people every show to ditch us and have some food. I always joked around about there being a secret vegan community. When I saw this fanny pack I couldn’t believe it. However he still denied its existence.

Father and son holding it down.
Dave having a time for a wild set.

Paolo, killing it.
  

 
Pizza with the boys, Euan edge, Dave, Paoly edge and Uncle Neil edge.
Reggie being a Reginald.
 
We have been playing a ton uno. Its great. We almost played for loser has to sleep in a cemetery but the locals advised against it. The dogs name was Vogal, pretty cool dude, although he pissed on Cole’s sleeping bag as he was sleeping in it.

All three bands have been staying at this one house hosted by the couple in the back of the picture below, Euan and Naomi. We have been lucky enough to stay at this same spot for three nights in a row, getting sick of hardwood flooring but the best hangout spot over here yet.

Cardiff Whales 4-20-2012

Cardiff was my favorite place so far. The other two bands we are on tour with are finally getting over being shy and hanging out getting wild with us. We thought the flyer for the show was a little too much but hey a ton of people showed up so maybe it worked. Here is john working on his right angle sleep style.

Cardiff Castle !

Yeah we playing uno up in here. Like I said boys finally came around. Loser has to pick a band to pull a chair out and sit in the middle of the pit for a whole set at the festival today. Luckily  the dude who lost is a rugby player so hopefully he can handle the punishment.

   

The show rocked, because there was perfect stage diving weather for me, good size stage, lots of people, even a lighting rig mounted to the roof that I handled. I’m also fairly stressed out that there is no room for me after the 25th of this month. The tour is with one other band at that point and there is no room in the van. The other band isn’t even bringing a drummer because of this and John has to fill in. So I’m gonna have to survive for some like 18 days alone. Only thing that really worries me is that it is constantly raining everywhere, so traveling in the streets with my bad is a death wish. Anyway, like I said I’m stressed so I took it out on the show last night. I ripped that place a new one. I find it funny that every night I acquire my own fans. Last night I had six or more people come to meet me and tell me how cool my style was, its pretty embarrassing but of the the guy actually put us up for the night. They were a little bit older and wanted to party so we packed up and went next door.

John found some older woman buzzin around after the show and made his move. This 30 year old was a train wreck obviously but a had a great laugh.

 

For those of you that don’t know John, he is a party animal. I am continually blown away by everything he does. I absolutely love it.

  

I must say that the girls here are pretty shot here, although when I went to the bar to get some water this girl came up to me and start talking to me. First sentence… “oh your an American? I hate Americans.” She almost got away but I chatted her up. She asked me to dance and I tried that but blew it. I did however I did climb up and start crowd surfing on all these drunk idiots, two security grabbed me but the guy pictured above in the black Champion sweater wasn’t having it, overpowered them and scared them off. Back to the girl I though to myself. I found her and pulled her aside and told her that she was the prettiest girl I have seen since I’ve been there. It was the truth but she didn’t believe me and we chatted some more and she told me she liked me and gave me a kiss. Around 3am we went back to her place and I had the time of my life.

Alright… That didn’t happen… She was hanging around us as we were leaving but all I asked for was her email… #real_life_imbecile.
We had a nice walk back to the house that was in a nice area. The middle finger for them I guess is like a thumbs up? I really like these trees here.

In the the morning the older guys made us breakfast, THEY RULED.

 

All aspect of time has gone out the window. It doesn’t bother me anymore. I eat when I’m hungry and survive on little naps here and there. It’s kind of a freedom having no schedule at all. Drop me an Email at edgejake@gmail.com and keep me company.