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YAAAWN...omg what hour is this? Is this...when...normal people are...getting up?

Ye gods. Oh crap. I have to get up too.

You know that thing about bands having street teams and layers of management? Well not so much. Because: new music business (and raspberry's to you matey).

In between renting vans and checking emails at 3am (local Sydney time) the night slips away and I'm linked to the US midwest once more by technology.

Of course, the people I speak to are in daylight. They're rational. they had coffee. Lunch. found a parking spot.

I'm crawling through the intertubes of the web via Skype, ever so gently hallucinating from being awake at a weird hour. I worry that I am coming across a little....strangely

Here comes the dawn. Vegemite toast and Tea are the order of business.

Oh yeah, and Danny wants a new song. That's cool, we wrote a new one for him, but now he wants a duet with DC as well. Yikes.

Not too sachharine, something with a nice melody, where their voices will work well together. Hmmm....

Should I reconsider agreeing to things at 4:30am? Have we bitten off more than we can chew?

 What are we, the brill building?

It's Dawn and I am powered by Yeast Extract and Irish Breakfast Tea!

They should probably take the keyboard away from me rght about now.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Hi Sliders. Sydney Guitar Setups came through for me again. We got screwed on excess baggage coming back from the US on our first tour, so on our 2nd tour we worked out we could tape and seal two guitars together and treat it like Overseize baggage but then the airline didnt like us doing that on the internal flight and their rules on guitar carrying are 'discretionary' so it can go wrong.

In steps my man Anthony and Sydney Guitar Setups with a double case for my SG's. There's some rule about Linear Length where the airline add all the length dimensions and divide it by We Want You To Pay Extra so we'll see how this goes but it's looking good so far.

See what you learn by 3rd tour? Now I need a double mandolin case.

Keep on slidin'!

Mr Wizard.

Howdy Folks. in the 'Cellar working on new work. 

 6 hours later still at it.

But our mates at Troy Horse lay on Tea and Coffee :-)

The boys are working hard. 

Howdy Folks.

I'd like to sum up my feelings on Tour Planning.

and my personal feelings on organisation and logistics

But this is the age of the DIY musician and what's got to be done, has got to be done by us. 

Big ups to Rosie for his work on our 3rd US tour.

As per usual, we've been pretty quiet about what were doing because:

a) it's highly variable

b) we're highly variable (well, maybe just me)

c) Mentioning it could be viewed as Bigging Ourselves Up

in fact, the correct, "Baggy Green' approach to Australian Behaviour is to run everything through the Sir Donald Bradman flowchart, as endorsed by the inner-cricket-player aspect of our culture. 

For the benefit of our Overseas Readers, the best Australian heroes are understated but excel with the bat. Or Bat Equivalent, whatever that may be. If we wish to emulate our cultural icons, we are well advised to emulate their lack of Exclamatory Self Promotion

This is one of the many cultural differences between AUS and the US, some of which will feature in my thinking as we leave our shores (temporarily, don't worry Immigration), things such as

Your Dollar

our dollar

your leader

Our leader

(seriously guys that's our actual PM, not a Grindr pic)

Our Donald - understated, noble, a gentlemen

Your Donald.

Potential Leader of a future Conservative Government

Wanna swap for the dude in Budgie Smugglers?

Contact details on the side here Mr Trump, look forward to receiving your call.

Meanwhile, back to tour stuff. 

Reports are in that Triple M in Sydney played Low Low on Sunday night, so a tip of the hat there to Nancy for submitting the song and to a commercial station for playing it.

Long, long ago I gave up radio for Web based stuff, so even though I knew about it, I couldnt even listen to it in my car.  When the End Times come the Zombies may get me as I am Radio Fail.

We've been Bloody Fortunate to get the radio support in Indy land both here and O/S, and even that was a heck of a surprise - as in, hey wow, someone else is into the same sort of stuff we're into. You just dont take that for granted when you play Harmonica :-)

Accordion? Maybe

so we say Thank You Triple M, for playing our track.