Posted on March 22, 2008 - by Mike Caputo
Further down the rabbit hole…
Out situation doesn’t seem to be improving much over here… Its been a really rough couple of days: dealing with the key being stolen, worrying about money, driving excessive amounts of time through traffic, and almost missing shows… Dispite it all, we’ve all been playing really well. The first two gigs have gone off really well. Our show last night specifically, went really well, we played in Cardiff at the Barfly venue. We reached capacity (I think 200-250 people in the venue), and had a great show… From what I’ve heard, there were a bunch of people from Music Wales there visiting to check us out, which is great news.
Today has been a different story, we seem to have this perpetual black cloud of horribleness following us, first with the car, money, etc etc… but now, we missed our flight to Dublin by literally 2 minutes. Traffic riding up on the highway from Cardiff to Manchester airport was fine, until we saw that there had been a really bad accident on the main highway (which we were on), and decided to get off, and take a slight detour… the detour ended up being a better route, but it was also a longer route, because other people were taking that way.
In the end we were forced to take a later flight (increased our cost by 50 pounds per passenger which is roughly $400). Since we had to take a later flight, unfortunately, we had to cancel our in store show that had been booked for us. I think it would have been really cool to do the in store performance, but we weren’t getting paid for that show, it was just for promo, so at least we’re not loosing out on any money directly coming in.