Saturday January 30 2010
Well we came over to Zurich to play a show with my friend Holly Williams. It was a pretty nice flight. I had “Skybed” and got a whole row to myself. Me and the bass player, Chris Boyle. We got in and took a cab to the hotel and it was snowy. I forgot that people smoke all the time inside in Europe. My nose is sort of….annoyed. Hotel fine, nice but small. European breakfast…bread, cheese, tea, etc…nutella…Then short nap and over to the venue where I was bad and ate veal. I had a Jack Daniel which was 20 Fr. The first set we played was quite good. The dance floor was filled for the whole set. Then the second set Holly put in some slow songs and the dancers took a break. My pedals worked except my Memory Man died on the way over, which kind of sucks because I rely on it a lot. It’s like my reverb. Back to the hotel at 2am and it was a blizzard! Beautiful snowy wonderland. There was talk of trying to find the heart of Zurich on a Friday night but I went to the room instead and read the intro to David Byrne’s “The Bicycle Diaries” – he’s an excellent writer. Took an Ambien and went night night.