Day Eight – Hauling to Hastings

Hastings was up next. I must admit the thought of playing my home town filled me with the worst nerves i’ve encountered for some time. For some reason playing in front of people you know well is worse for me than playing to a room…

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Day Seven – The Domain of Dr Syn

Rolled out of the cold dark recording studio and made our way back into Deal to collect our trunks from the Astor Theatre. Thankyou so much to the Cocos Lovers for putting us up for the night even though we didn’t even meet them really….

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Day Six – Deal or No Deal

We woke up in Tash’s Mum and Dad’s house a lot later than planned but all feeling much better after a relatively early night and a really good night sleep in super comfortable beds. We all seemed to have had extremely vivid dreams overnight and…

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Day Five – Up to the Toon

Wow! Felt like there was no way forward this morning. Woke up after the night that was Blood, Sweat and Beers to an extremely hot empty house. Anxious feelings all-round after the behaviour of one certain Skinny may have found us out of favour with…

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Day Four – Blood, Sweat & Beers

Ok so here we go. Rain, rain and drizzle started the day. Soaked through and tetchy we set off from Ye Olde Star Inn with a hearty breakfast and the offer of a paid Sunday gig under our belts. After anxiously travelling for roughly 8…

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Day Three – Brid

Another slow start but nevertheless the gang busied themselves with sign making and vintage suitcase fixing duties and when we were finally ready to set off we were all in need of a good lunch. We stopped in Leicester to pick up a few supplies…

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Day Two – Red Admiral

Day Two began slowly, very slowly indeed, but mercifully Alice rescued us Skinnies from hangover hell with her wonderous bacon sandwiches and we set about getting our mobile recording studio set up. We are recording another EP as we travel on this trip and the...
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Day One – Forge & Flagon

What a way to start the Homemade Tour. First port of call – Frolesworth to see Alice and the infamous ‘Party’ George (Max and Lorna’s proud parents).  Landrover parked in the drive and we sit down to George’s hot and spicy homemade curry and as…

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Last Minute Dash….

Skinny Lister are doing the mad dash that precedes any Skinny event. What do you mean we haven’t got accommodation on Wednesday? What no Rum! How many miles are we doing on Thursday! What sign? Nobody told me we needed a sign making. Have you…

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