March 2005

writing from geneva, switzerland…we played our last show of the tour last night and are driving back today to amsterdam where jack and i will fly back to l.a. we are so frickin’ happy to be getting back and while the tour was great, we are ready to put a fork in it–or rather a swiss army knife … HELLO. man that was stupid–did i just write that out loud? the audience was the smallest of the whole tour last night, and supported my plan to barely crawl to the finish. actually they were cool and the show was fun. it was snowing tons yesterday so it may have dissuaded some from coming out.  this morning the sun is out which will make our 10 hour drive to amsterdam a little easier at first. there’s been snow on the ground for the last two weeks in all the cities where we’ve been, so i’m sure we’ll hit some on the drive up north.  eleni’s drummer, kevin fitzgerald, a swell guy as well, grew up in alaska so has experience with driving in snow.  he has done all the driving for the entire tour. it made me feel like a princess. i got some really nice emails from people who saw us along this tour and i wanted to say that it helped our spirits immensely.  hopefully we’ll be coming back at some point later this year, but with the whole quartet this time. thanks from jack and me for the support of our families and friends while we were away. we can’t wait to see everyone. it’s been a long month.  peace out.

winterthur, switzerland. last night we finished our last show in germany to a sold out crowd of 220 in munich. super fun and the show went well. we stayed in a cool old hotel that had a wonderful bar downstairs. we were there for two nights and the first night we drank too much, so the next day, the day of the show, we were all a bit exhausted…the promoter from the munster show drove 10 hours to the munich show so we had a drink with him as well. he is very cool. also, a radio dj from frankfurt came on a 4 hour trainride to the show and to interview me for his show. it was a great interview and he’s going to send me it when it is completed. he has to go back and re-record all his questions into german and then edit in my answers. the night before munich, we played in vienna. here’s the weird thing about austria though–we didn’t see one frickin kangaroo, and when i asked for a fosters they had no idea what i wa…oh, you know i think that’s australia. oops. well, i better go try and throw up this vegemite. we have 5 shows left, all in switzerland, and then we’ll drive 9 hours back to amsterdam on the 7th and 8th. jack and i will fly out on the 8th back home and eleni’s band is flying to venice to do one last show before they come back as well…i’ll try to write again.  hope all is well with everyone reading this..