Tour Diary: Day 3 - Invercargill

Despite having stayed up all night playing guitar hero, we got up nice and early. Firstly, we needed to make our way down to Invercargill by late afternoon. Invercargill lies at the southern tip of New Zealand, so we easily had a good four hour drive ahead of us. Secondly, Luci and DJ were really keen to take us to Dunedin’s local farmer’s market in order to introduce us to “bacon buddies”, a specialty of one of the market’s local vendors.

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Tour Diary: Day 2 - Dunedin

[Photo by Roger Grauwmeijer. View entire set.]

All of us actually woke up quite early in Oamaru. We didn’t have far to drive to Dunedin, but this was the first morning where we had actually risen from our sleep being “on tour”. I felt energized and wide-eyed. The day before I arose in the same old bed that I’ve slept in for most of the last few years: a small room, dark, barren, rather unpleasant really. But this morning I was already living an adventure, and I was grateful not be at home. I felt like taking deep breaths slowly; I was glad that it was a bit brisk; I felt freer than usual.

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Simon’s South Island Tour Diary

[I'm totally stoked: Simon just emailed me his tour diary. This is the first time a post will be up on The Enright House that wasn't written by myself. Sweet. So without further delays, here's Simon's diary from our South Island tour:]

[Photo by Roger Grauwmeijer. View entire set.]

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Darkwave = MC Squared at the Arc Cafe in Dunedin

Thank you Roger for shooting this video and sharing it with us!

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Shaun’s myspace tour diary

After posting the first part of my tour diary (Day 1 - Oamaru) and writing up two posts about planning the tour (part 1 and part 2) I was delighted to find myself not alone in writing about our little adventure - Shaun, too, just published the first part of his own tour diary on his myspace blog: go read the post on his myspace!

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Planning our South Island Acoustic Tour - Part 2/3

A lot of people have been interested to learn more about our Stewart Island adventure, so, as promised, here’s the second part of my three-part blog on www.creativesoulchristchurch.com about planning the tour, with more details about our experience on Stewart Island:

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Tour Diary: Day 1 - Oamaru

7.20am? The last time I had been awake this early, I hadn’t yet gone to bed. I had yet to pack everything I needed for the tour, swap my car for my aunt and uncle’s van, organize an A/B switch for my guitar, hire the trailer, bring back a few videos, and pick up Shaun from the airport. I had planned on leaving Christchurch around 12 and arriving at the Penguin Club as early 4 in the afternoon, thus, giving us ample time for a leisurely sound-check.

The first main task of the morning was to pick up Shaun from the airport. I had heard his music on the A Low Hum singles club and caught his set live at camp, so I was pretty certain we would mesh well musically, but I was still a little bit concerned about whether or not we would actually get along on a personal level, as we had never actually talked to each other before. Thank goodness, I took a liking to Shaun almost the moment we bumped into each other at the airport. I don’t know if it was his black-framed glasses, his army parker, his posture, or just his friendly and casual voice, but - as they say - he had me at “hello”.

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Planning our South Island Acoustic Tour - Part 1/3

Recently, we completed our super-amazingly-fun 10-day tour of New Zealand’s South Island.

Here’s the first of a three-part installment I wrote for Christchurch’s new community blog, www.creativesoulchristchurch.com, about how I organized it:

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Pre-tour freak-out and exhaustion!

For the better part of 2 1/2 months now our upcoming tour has been filling my thoughts and waking hours with a mixture of excitement and stress. It’s the first tour I’ve booked on my own, and I have to say it’s been harder (and more expensive) than I thought it would be. At first I was a tad concerned about finding the right dates, and then securing the right venues to fit into a tidy schedule, but, it turns out, that was actually the easy part.

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