What an amazing 5days...

So, it's the last day of the tour with Rip It Up (Newcastle) and The Diehards (Harrogate). It has been one hell of a tour.

First day started out with a hike over to harrogate where i was met by the lovely Hollie and 4/5's of The Diehards. We then began the tour on the drive up to Newcastle. The show had an amazing turn out at the practice rooms behind Cooperage. The Diehards, Black Wolves, Rip It Up, Nowherefast, Frites, CxRxP, Gut Care. The atmostphere was excellent with everyone bringing their own booze, and Caughey even got a bash to the head leaving a nice trophy wound for the rest of tour. We WERE up for going out, but everyone turned out to be far to hammered and sleepy so we headed back to Mark's house to catch some kip.

The next day started out with Josh and I going for a nice shopping trip resulting in some fresh new nike air max! Then we headed over to Aidens house where the van was waiting for the 6 boys, myself, and all of our gear. The harrogate lot (minus Josh) had headed back the night before so were meeting us in Liverpool . We set off later than planned with a few unscheduled stops in the middle of no where! Caughey's arse making regular appearances as usual. We than began the mammoth task of finding the skate park, than turned out to not even be in Liverpool but in Ainston. We stopped to ask for directions, but with the combination of Jo's thick geordie accent and the Lady at Blockbuster's thick Scouse accent, we mayaswell have not have bothered. Caughey, Mark, Josh and I amsued ourselves by making up songs about everything we saw, including tghe classic; "Disco Subway!". Even after phonecalls backwards n forwards, asking for more directions, and driving about for a good hour we still couldn't find the venue. Alas, it was too late, and the skate park had closed its doors and we still couldn't find it. Nowhere Fast came to meet us, took us to get alcohol, then we went back to Tom's gorgeous house to get wierd on the drink and have a good smoke. Everyone had a space on the floor to sleep, even if Josh and I did sleep on the upstairs landing.

The next day was gorgeous, a few of us even making it to the beach to frollock in the sand. We managed to pack all of our stuff up and go food shopping, even managed to take a wicked polaroid before setting off for Ipswich. The drive was long, but we had food, music, and Caughey's arse to keep us company. With Rob's arse even making an appearance as he drove past the van and hung out the window!!! All was caught on either camera or film so don't worry! Time seemed to fly by however, and we were in Ipswich in no time (well, we did have Hollie and her satnav leading the way!). As we scoped out the venue some of the boys paid a seedy sex shop a visit, with the owner even offering £10 off an Asian ladyboy sex DVD! We began unloadiung everything, and i set about the task of making the Rip It Up/Black Wolves splits. Turn out was pretty poor, but everyone that turned up made the most of it with kids jumping about for both bands and even some skateboarding during the sets! After the show we all went to a pub in town before parting ways and heading of to our destinations to sleep. Our lot ended up in a converted garage that is now a practice room, fully equiped with sound proofing on the walls, belgoning to members of Dungeons. everyone slept well, even if it was too hot, and the next day after everyone had showered a few of us played a bit of basketball/netball in the garden.

We then set off for Chatham. This drive was even less painfull and only took 1hr and a half to 2 hours. We found the venue in good time and got to mess around, skate around and just generally let off some steam before setting up all of the gear. Hollie and I made an excellent job of setting up the merch, we even sold some! Ript It Up and The Diehards played amazing as always and we all enjoyed the Black and Blue set! We soon discovered we were to be staying in the venue over night so we brought all of our stuff in after the show and proceeded to get wierd again on the drink and smoke. Caughey donned my bikini (which i shall burn at a later date) and danced about providing a good show for every one and before we knew it he was sompletely naked apart from his socks and shoes!!! Josh and I couldn't handle it any longer and bed down for the night, or so we thought. We were awoken by the lads dragging Josh around the room in his sleeping bag! We finally got to sleep and woke up in the freezing room with a banging head ache to discover the carnaged that had unfolded. We couldnt get a shower but us girls made the best of the freezing cold water in the bathroom and managed to scrub up quite well!

We said our good byes and set off on the road to Leeds. This time there was less of Caughey's arse and alot more of Mark sleeping. We stopped off at, what must have been, THE most expensive service station in the history of service stations! The drive took less time than we thought and we arrived at Mez's house where we were greeted with an amazing dinner. The gig was at The Pack Horse, which is a brilliant venue for shows in my opinon. I saw Ruiner and Sinking Ships there a while ago and it was a fantastic and intimate show. Valhallah Pacifists, The Diehards, Rip It Up, Ash, Waking the Dead. However the boys were all drained and tired from touring and the atmosphere just wasn't the same. Apart from Steve, who seemed to have drank away his tiredness and acheyness every day. After the show we drove back to Harrogate where many of us were thrilled at the prospect of sleeping in an ACTUAL bed!

As I write this we're sat in The Diehards front room all ready to Leave for Hull. The van with Aiden, Mark, Jo, Christoffaloffal-the-fallofelwaffel, Rob, Caughey and myself in is departing first in about ten minutes folloowed shortly by the rest of the Diehards who will arrive about 7pm. We are leaving early so that i can interview these lovely, smelly boys on my radio show.

So, if you're reading now, head on over to www.ilovejamradio.co.uk you can listen via that website. It's gonna be an awesome and hilarious show:)

I shall keep you updated on tonight's shinanigans! Hull, here we come! xo