Tour diary
Notes from the road.
Load-ins, setlists, the van.
Written on the way between shows, usually by Della, sometimes by whoever is not driving.
Load-in at four, doors at seven
What happens between the van and the first song, minute by minute, on an ordinary show day.
The van is called Marjorie
Eleven seats, one working tape deck and a rule about who chooses the music.
Soundcheck songs we never play
Every band has a song it only plays to an empty room at five in the afternoon. We have four.
Fourteen floors
Writing Low Ceiling in a borrowed apartment on the fourteenth floor, then recording it in a basement.
