![]() Steve Lamacq: "I don't know if there's, it's not. our crew by the way are doing an immense job working outside in incredible heats while we swan around like popstars. 'in limbo's still a little tricky but it's more than made up by the way 'the national anthem' and 'everything in its right place' is going. The new songs are working pretty well now in the set. Getting a little worried about how easy it is to drink vast amounts of alcohol on tour.kick-started by the lovely laika people who apart from playing some great shows with us also happen to make the greatest margaritas outside of mexico itself.they are dangerous touring partners. a beautiful modern amphitheatre which had actually been dug out of the hill that overlooks that city.a brilliant audience who exhibited great patience at hearing a set with nine new songs and a band which ignored repeated requets for creep(.understandable on their part, the requests that is, as this was our first visit) and pop is dead (. no site of any greek antiquities as of yet, even from the top floor of the hotel.this city seems huge and apparently we're situated in what a local described as a kind of no-man's land.lots of traffic outside the window.and parked cars everywhere which is explained by the fact that they operate a system here whereby car licences are issued for different days of the week in order to alleviate the serious traffic congestion ie you have a car and you're only allowed to drive that car on mondays, wednesdays, fridays and sundays.what happens of course is that if you've got the dosh you then buy another car that you can drive on tuesdays, thursdays and had an amazing time in ayed open-air, right in the heart of the old town at the piazza san doesn't get better than this.went on and played in thessaloniki last night at the earth theatre. pretty dark but then that session was hardly a chuckle-trousered affair.Īrrived this morning to play the first of two gigs in the lycabetus theatre, which is apparently near the parthenon. i've been listening to alot of the copenhagen tracks and out-takes and the overall sound is great. what has also become evident is that the summer panic that led to two months rehearsal may have been a little premature.or at the very least a little on the hysterical side.there was some good stuff recorded in paris, copenhagen and batsford. there's 'optimistic', there's another which started off as a thom doodle on the 505.there's also the paris version of 'lost at sea'.the batsford 'morning bell'.it is different. they were fantastic.thom and jonny conducted. they are definitely different.there's an eight piece brass ensemble in a charles mingus style on one - eight 'jazzers' came down for the day and blew their stuff all over 'everyone - the national anthem'. ![]() this has been our life for the last five weeks - we had a list of about ten songs which was then further narrowed down to six. ![]() which means that we have actually finished six or so tracks. we're in london at present and nigel is mixing he has been for three days. it's easy to get extremely self-conscious doing this. then there have been a couple of 'essays' written whilst stoned late at night, only to be re-read the next morning. i've tried to write something about what we've been doing in the last five weeks - there have been the day-by-day accounts which have been of the 'we did this and then we did that' variety.all incredibly boring to read. Undated (mid-november 1999), posted on december 1st 1999 ![]()
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