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glastonbury blog coming soon promise!
ok so have only got to post this today as can't get internet anywhere ever on my travels. here's last week's news....
hi everyone
so i'm at glastonbury.... on my computer blogging. ok so not quite as sad as it sounds honest, we got here crazy late and there's a lock down on buses now so we can't get in till the morning :( so figured i'd tell u what's been happening.
first off we just announced a new UK tour in october, you can now get your tickets in the members section... i'm super excited for this and have been doing lots of plotting but all in the early stages so all i will say is basically i think you should come.
festival season has truly kicked off.... if i get asked one more time 'what's your top festival survival tip?!' i might explode... but spent last weekend at sonar which was the most clean and functional festival i've ever attended.
this is the stage we played. most epic lighting yet.

here's the brains behind the operation... although i'm still the only one who can make the tv work in the tour van. boys hey.
the gig was really good its kind of weird playing big stages takes some getting used to but had fun.

then we went on dodgems!

danced loads to heartbreak

danced loads to erol

and just generally got a bit messy

next day was much more civilised. went to the CCCB where they have special exhibitions on about sound/ art/ technology installation experiment thingys.
finally saw reactable! so amazing. i want it so so so bad. i'm certain this is how aliens communicate.

checked out some other stuff... this is an image that reacts to your movements and also creates sound... kinda cool

then went to see fever ray... so inspiring was most epic show ever saw some of crystal castles too.. their sound was awful so a kind of fight kicked off between alice and the soundman, we caught up with them backstage afterwards sounded pretty funny although when you watch it back on youtube looks kind of scary.
then i had a day off - good grief - so went to the beach and promptly fell asleep leading to massive uneven suburn so now have to rock the british tourist/ lobster look for glasto. nice one.
then we went to norway to play Hove festival in arendal, which was the most beautiful festival i've ever been too... what an amazing country, all dark blue lakes and big green forests. this was the view from my hotel room

pretty amazing. it gets better. at the festival the artists had their own beach! beat that glastonbury.

and no interviews in saggy tents, we got to sail out onto a beautiful lake in the sunshine...

basically this week has made me think UK festivals have a thing or two to learn. mind you we can't help the weather. anyway just caught the end of metronomy before us, pretty epic lighting

but its the little things that count

saw my best buddy anna prior who's playing drums in metron backstage... waaaa!

apparently its actually on our rider to have pictures of animals in the dressing room now?? well done norway. shadow of ben feeding horses was absolute chance but pretty good.

then we hung out backstage and got accosted by some vikings turned roadies...

the next day i played tenorion on the boat

whilst this lot sat about

and jumped in the sea

the end!
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