What have I been doing? Apart from taking photos of Hem, you mean? :-)

I’m just about caught up after all the excitement starting a week ago tonight when we saw Hem for the first (and only scheduled for us) time this tour in Shepherds Bush. Then we got chatting after the show, like you do, and ended up on the guest list with a photo pass for the next night in Reading, then E mentioned she loves the Beautiful South - no accounting for taste - and so off we went the following night to Nottingham for the third night in a row. Spent the weekend, and most of the first half of this week, knackered. It didn’t help that the Comfort Inn in Reading put us in the crappiest room on the top floor and because of the heat it was far from, ahem, comfortable. We ended up giving up on sleep and leaving at 4 a.m. which of course at least meant that we drove the M4 and M25 quicker than seems decent.

I doubt I’ll be able to see any band, let alone one I love so much, 3 times in a row again any time soon. I haven’t done that since my ligger days in Manchester, over 10 years ago now. It was cool to be able to hear the little details of arrangement they’d rehearsed for the shows, like the longer drum crescendos in Half Acre and so on, through repeated listening. But let’s face it, it was just as cool to get a little wave from Sally when she caught our eye amidst 4000 people…

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