Hello blogosphere. My name is Jeremy Radway and I make music under the moniker Player Piano. I'm putting an EP out on June 15 on the fence records label, and I'm currently on tour with the two fellas who run the label, King Creosote and The Pictish Trail (real names Kenny Anderson and Johnny Lynch respectively). So the next few entries will be something of a tour diary.
Some of these will be short, like this one, cause I'm thumbing away on an iPhone here...
Last night was the first show, in Durham. A very nice little town, which we thought had quite an impressive cathedral, for a town we'd never been to, heard of. Upon wikipedia-ing, come to find out it's a rather important and famous cathedral indeed. Interesting townfolk, mostly friendly, did meet a guy on the way to the cafe this morning with a huge chunk missing from his ear, blood dripping down his shirt, and he was holding a crumpled up newspaper up to it--" is it bad?" he asked. " yeah man, go to an A&E dude. What happened?" "I was reading my paper and I bumped into these guys watching the football." Later saw a guy with a really awful black eye, with proper iris/cornea damage, discoloration. It's a violent world I suppose. It's a boozy testosterone-fueled football world out there. I fucking hate sports.
Anywho, the gig was excellent. The folks were very kind and attentive, and also bought a decent amount of our music. We were all on pretty good form and Gavin and Pete (the drummer and bassist, respectively) who are playing as me and Kenny's rhythm section--with very limited rehearsal---did an exemplary job, under such duress as a lack of bass amp and shitty monitoring. Today onto Leeds. Playing the Stag and Dagger festival. These things are often interesting. As in, no soundcheck, lots of bands, that sorta thing. Let's do it. J
Oh, and we also went mental at the playground on this totally dangerous, totally awesome balance/tire thingy. I almost puked. Awesome!
I may use this as my screen saver - just look at UB "Whee!" More more!
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