[kj] Another Blog via Youth

[Alexander Smith]

Damn nice of him to give us a shout-out at the end like that.

Alex in NYC


On Oct 2, 2010, at 9:05 AM, Simon Abinett wrote:


>

> "trance europe express

> Category: Music

> Racing through endless night through the dreamless dark from Lille  

> to Cologne on the tour bus.

> I was woken by a horrible blood freezing scream somewhere very  

> close. I reminded myself everywhere is close on a tour bus and   

> ventured my head past my coffin like bunk and witnessed Geordie in  

> full Valkyrie fright and temper....someone had committed the  

> cardinal sin of doing a number two on the bus toilet. My bunks air  

> vent wasn't working and within the hour we all knew why it was a  

> cardinal sin...By the time we arrived in the morning i was having  

> feverish convulsions. I have backpacked in the northern foothills of  

> the Himalayas not washed for week and been forced to stand upright  

> whilst holding a joss stick next to an open latrine on a very crowed  

> train for 6 hours and that all seems like opulent luxury next to our  

> little tour bus.

> The music is making it worthwhile for me, sometimes it feels  

> glorious, a fearless surge, a magnificent and raptured exaltation.  

> Mostly its like surfing sheet metal, there are dips and hollows and  

> sometimes i think its  just boring and plain wrong and then get  

> feedback that that was someones favourite bit.

> We all felt Ghosts of Labroke grove was a bit too tame and then lots  

> of people said the opposite after! Still its all  necessary for  

> dynamic and we are still adjusting the balance between new and  

> old...but generally its white hot. I had to pinch myself standing  

> next to Geordie on stage so close to that lightning strike guitar   

> whiplash....amazing ...meanwhile Big Paul  like a herd of angry  

> wildebeest charging towards me

> all the while Jaz is leading us on towards the invisible abyss,  

> animated in frenzied voodoo shaman mode, possessed and  

> unrestrained...rarely if ever have i witnessed such transformation  

> on a stage...incredible. And we are very lucky to have Rezza on  

> board who's attention to detail completes the sonic assault on the  

> senses

> I must give tribute to our crew who are like a F1 pitstop team . And  

> of course the Gathering who spur us on like wild horses racing over  

> the hills."

>

>

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