Back In The Air

After the fun of the Hometown shows came the relative boredom of the NME awards. TV shows are never much fun for me as Union rules prevent me from operating lights for the band so i stand and offer my opinion to the TV guy, who most of the time will ignore you!! After finishing load out at 1.30am it was back up at 6am to go to Dublin airport to fly to London for a performance at the annual NME awards which were held for the last time at the famous Hammersmith Palais (The Clash song White Man in Hammersmith Palais is about the bands early days here)
Check out the bands performance of theyre cover of Joy Divisions "ShadowPlay" which has been recorded for the soundtrack to the Anton Corbijn directed movie "Control" which is a biopic about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis who died in 1980.

Amongst the people in attendance were Damon Albarn, Noel Gallagher, Arctic Monkeys, Pete Doherty & Kate Moss (who were apparently ejected after being found in the back alley behind the venue getting up to no good after being repeatedly prevented from trying to go to the bathrooms together). Performances on the night also came from Jarvis Cocker, The View, Kasabian and Primal Scream who also performed with Mick Jones from the Clash. The Killers won a gong for Best Video for the Tim Burton directed "Bones".
After braving the aftershow party which was held at our hotel it was off to Brighton for a much needed day off.
The show at the Brighton Centre personally ranks as the worst show i've had in years due to technical failures left, right and centre, thankfully the following night in Nottingham was much better.

If any of you remember the last time i was in Nottingham i found some fancy dress?? Well, yeas i did it again, this headpiece was just sitting around the backstage area so i thought i'd try do load out in it. I think it quite suits me..


So as the UK tour draws to a close you find us at the Cardiff International Arena in Wales before heading to Amsterdam tomorrow for the start of the European run.

Always a good crowd here right back to when we played the Cardiff uni right through to the Millenium Stadium show with U2.

Trivia fact - The Big Sleep Hotel in Cardiff has a very unique and special business partner in Hollywood superstar John Malkovich - How Bizarre eh!!