LUCKY PAUL'S TOUR DIARIES
Seems this tour is gonna be crazy nice venues and sites! Today we’re in Boise, Idaho, playing at some botanical gardens that used to be a state penitentiary…Mountain Man, the trio of backup singers that play with Feist are playing support, can’t wait, they sound amazing just singing acapella…Their 3 voices and personalities together create some super heavy vibes that spark goosebumps everytime…Check them out, so great they met each other and starting singing together. I love hearing bands that were meant to be.
This was yesterday. We just started another US tour leg. It was a crazy surprise, I literally woke up walked off the bus and saw this sight. Most the time when you get off the bus, you’re surrounded by a bunch of concrete buildings downtown somewhere, so this blew me away. It was at Sasquatch festival in George, Washington. I usually don’t know where I’m gonna be the next day, just take it as it comes, which I feel guilty for sometimes, but this time it was the best feeling not knowing…I might just continue to do so…
I’m gonna start posting a bunch of photos up here so you can follow this adventure more often…Been working hard on my setup to make it work for live shows so its been hard to keep up regular videos, but keep checking back as there are more to come!
This was at Radio City Hall in NYC, we played there a few weeks ago. It held 6000 people, was a really fun gig, easier to sink into the music after nervously playing Royal Albert. These big iconic venues are really daunting to play at first, but after a few it gets easy to just appreciate the place and sound and enjoy being there.
We played in the space ship that is Royal Albert Hall, was a crazy open sounding room with a long, warm reverb and a really high ceiling that made it feel amazing. I remember thinking that day how crazy it was that about a year ago I was making a living busking on the streets of Berlin and now I’m traveling and playing with a great band in this awesome venue. All times to remember.
Lille! Had a really nice salad with the best salad dressing ever. Made a reset button for my setup too….I was trying to do a video starting in the tour bus bathroom that day, but kept getting stuck, cables catching door knobs and things (its a tiny bathroom). I had to untangle myself, take the backpack off, delete what I had done, then press record only to get stuck again. Crazy annoying, so I went back to the venue, made a button which would automatically start the recording again, came back outside and did this video…The tour bus video is for another day it seems…Glad I can do more than one take with ease now…
Great times had in Portugal!! Warm people, yummy food, beautiful old buildings. Heard some incredible traditional singing called Fado in a small bar there too…I will return one day!
The Ironing board is back! Found a mini fold up one that works a treat, laptop is in a backpack now too so I can walk anywhere I like and sample anything I see…
Video #2 - Los Angeles.
So I left Berlin and have moved into this house. Its up on a hill with a great view. My buddy Guillermo Brown aka Pegasus Warning was visiting so we had a jam…My setup is coming along…The colored squares tell me whats happening, yellow for about to record, red for recording and green for playing what I just recorded…
1st video! Im leaving my apartment in Berlin which I recently moved out of…It was one of my favourite flats. It’s directly above a music venue so there was live music most nights of the week. Had awesome flatmates, Drew Simpson, one if them, is in the video washing dishes. Good times!!! I miss Berlin…
