4 days, 2 shows. Something to be encouraged I would suggest.....show day, off day, show day, off day. Lille is our base on off days, and we are being accomodated and hosted by Joe's wonderful parents. Home comforts are a rare treat on tour and if afforded the chance to be fed and watered and a have a bed in the warm environs of a family home, I will gratefully take that. Lille is a surprisingly beautiful town, almost bourgeoise. I only saw Lille as a stopover town for the Eurostar, but now I know that it was also the place where they discovered the first anti-tuberculosis vaccine! That town went up in my estimations after learning that fact I can tell you. Tonight we will go and the new formation of The Ex in Lille. Exciting.

Tour life also presents you with a whole lot of time for yourself. At home, there are never enough hours in the day to do all the things you want to / have to. On tour there are moments where nursing a beer is the highlight of the day. Nowadays with the advent of Facebook, going backstage resembles entering a bleeding internet cafe. It's MacBook central as people tell the world that they woken up, and then 2 minutes later everyone knows you've cleaned your teeth, and 5 minutes later you are congratulated by an A+R douche you met 10 years ago for 2 minutes backstage somewhere in godknowswhereville for having posted the fact that you just had a good dump! Boring boring boring.