IIIIIIIT’S….BAAAAACK
The Posies, that they are.
INNSBRUCK, 1/14
We all assembled from our different holiday retreats—Paris; Seattle; Peebles, Scotland: some island off Holland; and assembled in Innsbruck on Friday the 13th. For my part, I flew out of Orly (again, anything to avoid the Mon Oncle bordel of Charles de Gaulle) on the Slovak-based Sky Europe airlines (thumbs up) direct to Innsbruck (free wifi!). Jon, our trusted tech Joe (you can say roadie, he don’t mind…) and Darius flew to Zurich via Amsterdam from Seattle. Our tour manager Jan drove the Highway Tiger van from Holland, picked up the gear in Germany, and picked the others up in Zurich and drove all to Innsbruck. Matt flew from Edinburgh to Geneva, and our friend Elvira gave him a lift to Innsbruck and stuck around for the show. Oddly, we all arrived within just a couple of hours of each other.
We all arrived the night before—I would have flown in the day of the show but there are only flights every other day. Our promoter, Justin, who put on my show at his Weekender Night at the same venue (Nu.Topia) just a week and a half before, and his lovely family hosted all of us, including our manager Marc who hopped a ride with the others from Zurich, plus a dinner was had with Justin’s partner in watts, DJ Andi Superstar, and FM4’s own DJ Eva who came out to see the Posies first Austrian rock gig (and played lots of KS and Posies on the radio, thank you!). About 10 minutes into this lovely dinner, I didn’t feel well, and had to excuse myself. I went upstairs and laid down on a couch…and woke up at 10.30 the next morning! I don’t know what it was, homesickness, perhaps. But it knocked me out and not on a Technicality. Felt fine in the morning tho.
Back to the old routines—hotel check in; merch count in; bang on stuff. Sounded good…the PA at Nu.topia is small, and Matt’s bass amp blew up in the first 2 minutes of soundcheck (you should have seen what we put together for him—it worked well, tho).
To our pleasant surprise—we played like wet lightning (huh?) from the gate, and put quite a few folks in the room in a good mood…no surprises in the set, but we did kinda move the order around, and that was enough to make it freshen up a bit in our minds. Good!
Love
KS
Schorndorf GERMANY
