I’ve been trying to come up with a full review of our trip that ended a little over a week ago now, but it just hasn’t happened… I thought that seeing the aftereffects of what happened would help, but no such luck, so i’m just gonna try and push my way through this summerizing it all.
For me, the trip was great. We obviously had a bunch of horrible bad luck… most of which, i realize is self inflicted, weather we want to admit it or not. Dispite that, we were overly successful.
I’ve been on tour in the UK 4 times now, so I think that I can be a pretty good barometer for what our growth is. I’ve seen REALLY shitty shows, i’ve seen OK shows, and i’ve also seen GREAT shows…. The first time I travelled across the pond, we had high expectations, and I think that we were let down, however, I think we saw the potential that we had in that market. Our 2nd trip over there was a little better, we learned what we could do to build. And we did, so we saw the results. Our 3rd trip over there was kind of a set back, mainly becuase we weren’t travelling with the full main lineup that we had been used to playing with, we were also lacking on the promotion side of things.
This tour was different though… We’ve for the greater part, had been doing all tour promotions previously, btu this time, we were lucky enough to have some of the best promtions people working for us. And that alone was a huge deal… We saw lineups outside of clubs, sold out shows, and yes, some bad shows, however, in my opinion, the tour was an exponential success over the last 3 trips.
I absolutely love being in Europe, and this time was no different, and now i’ve been to 2 countries that I hadn’t been to previously (Ireland, and The Netherlands) I love it even more. I simply cant wait to go back!
