Bobby’s Account of the Tour
August 20th, 2009 by Isabel received 1 Comment »Bobby couldn’t let Phil do ALL the talking- he managed to blog a bit about his time in New York and Philly as well. Really nice to hear how much Bobby loves our little country! You can catch Bobby’s bit of the blog below.
Arriving in New York is always a good feeling but when you know it’s the start of a two-month tour it’s a little hard to process. Arriving at Newark to a storm was not what I was expecting and I was hoping it would not be an omen that I was bringing the weather or the weather would not let me land on shore. Made it to a yellow taxi and got taxi to 2nd Avenue and to a real old apartment which reminded me of the tv show cheers. Ive never been able to walk around the city so I wandered into park avenue and found an old book shop and was then lobbed into the street for no reason. I think the book shop guy wanted to close but I thought he thought I was nicking books or maybe from a rival shop. Later on that evening I arrived at S.O.Bs to play my first show for the lovely Nona Hendrix. Nona is from the band Labelle and is one of the greatest performs you could wish to see. I learnt a lot from watching her. She’s also one of the nicest people you could ever meet no matter what you spend your days doing. Her partner Vicki Wickham is another of these wonderful people who you’re thankful to know. Both of them have shown me amazing support and I owe them a lot. The show was great and thanks very much for coming down to support me. The second show was at Arlenes grocery and its probably my favourite venue in the world right now. After having a hectic day the one place you want to play at is a cool, friendly venue where you feel some kind of moral duty to make your songs stick to the wall. Arlenes is like that. It was completely packed and if you didn’t get in ill be back in September. It kinda feels like my home from home now.
Arrived by car in Philadelphia from New York and managed to see a bit of the surrounding countryside. Its nice to be able to see the bits in-between the cities like in England it shows the real elements of a place. The only bad thing about touring around is that you don’t really get any chance to explore and see what makes up the city your in. Philly looks like a really cool place and I really like the way it looks, odd buildings and close streets. It has a feel of northern England about it. I arrived at The North Star Bar around 6.00 for a few interviews and already there were people there. The support so far for both the New York shows was really special and a real good indication of the rest of the tour. The show in Philly was one of the most enjoyable ive had in a while. The crowd was one of the best I have ever had and it felt a bit like a blues brothers show at times but that’s how I like it. I got to play for an hour which afterwards makes you feel you’ve gone through eight rounds with a hit man, but again that’s the way I like it. Heading to Dallas, at the airport now and want to get there and see Marcus and Sammy. Have really good feelings about everything and I feel Im on the right road.
T for Texas.
See you soon,
Bobby
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