Ah so...it seems we are at all times in a van again! We must be on tour! A big bundle of love to everyone who came out and saw our shows up and down the west coast of the US a couple months back...I have to learn how to blog faster, I'm afraid. Much love to Eric Johnson for drinking out of cups with us on our way up to Seattle, Kevin Barker for his mad skillz on the 12-string, and to Kelley Stoltz and Jonathan Wilson for sharing the stage with us along the way. It's about time we'd done that!

It seems we barely had a moment to catch our breath before we flew out, up and over to the UK, caught a train to Brussels and met up with our tour shepherd, Stefan, who reliably escorted us from vista to vista in a large Sprinter van. Halfway through, he tagged out and our old chum Kelly Schnetz climbed into the driver seat and sped us off on part deux of our elongated tour. Journeys through the UK, Scotland, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany and Holland ensued, and though we enjoyed it all, we are now very thoroughly exhausted. Thanks to all the kind ears and smiling faces who consented to join us for all the shows. It was epic, and I'm at a loss to recap all the tidbits of two months spent moving about. Suffice to say, we learned a lot, laughed a little and ate a lot of cheese.

Along with all of this hoo-ha, we now have a new album out of songs not written by me.
It's called "Thing Of The Past" and it looks like this:

It's in stores, on iTunes, all that stuff, and we'll of course have copies with us at shows. Vinyl is out as well and it's a beautiful gate-fold in the states and slim and trim over in the UK and Europe. There was a nice little write up in the NY Times about it. That was a surprise.

We made some inroads into the blogosphere a little while back, with a quick little clip prepared by Naturalismo and a mix I prepped for the site When You Awake. Before all this galavanting began, I had the pleasure of dropping by the offices of Revolver and recording a bit of Q & A with Uli and Potsie. Fun stuff, and apologies for the delay in taking note
of it all.

Below are some assorted pictures courtesy of Sanders and Brent. Thanks guys!

This is the bear tea-party we got invited to. Nice bunch of bears...very civilized.

Plaque on the wall of the BBC studio we tracked our Rob Da Bank session in.

Vetiver and Birds Of Avalon at the end of a lovely night at the Dulcimer in Manchester.

Flat Rachel takes Paris by storm!

Otto gladly reenacts the drunken mugging attempted on Brent upon our return to Lisbon, and
the sight of it's occurrence, two years later. Fun times!

Hanging in the padded VIP room at Porto's lovely
Passos Manuel, with our new friends from Madrid,
Hola a todo el mundo.

Sunset, Stonehenge

andy
(From 26/05/08 @ 12:42 AM)

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