Bluegrass jambouree Tour Blog - Wednesday 9th December

We had a great show last night in Waldkraiburg – apparently a wealthy German town so we’re hoping we did well on cd sales! Pretty nice hotel, Hannah’s smoking room came in handy and the wifi was free for the first time. The tour is getting more like a school trip each day. We are becoming one big family we have christened the tour: “The no Divas and no Douches tour”! The post gig room parties are great fun although, some hard liquor is probably needed if we are really in the mind to tear things up! We’d all like to wish Graham’s daughter Rosalie a very happy 2nd Birthday for yesterday, we also saw his son Wade on skype, he is totally adorable! The funniest thing about the daily routine is having to get up really early for breakfast, then eating nothing literally all day, until we arrive at the venue where we eat two meals back to back! Within minutes of entering the dressing room the cheese, meat and bread is utterly decimated, then we sound check then we eat again, and we’ve had some pretty good stuff so far – last night’s pasta with salmon and cream was delish! We are currently in Munich in a slightly weird old style hotel, though free wifi 2 days in a row is rather cool! Oddly, Hanny and I have to cross the hall to get to our bathroom, which is located opposite the room with the beds in. Tonight we play at Amerika Haus and the promoters are local indie/rock guys – looking forward to show number 5, especially the end when we all play together, last night Mike sang a great harmony with us on the Bill Monroe number and we love Graham singing a verse in the otherwise instrumental version of Cluck Old Hen - stay tuned folks!

Check out the bluegrass jamboree website - Rainer's blog is in german but there are pictures! www.bluegrassjamboree.de