erfurt, germany. sorry it’s been a few days. it’s been really difficult getting to a computer. we are in east germany at the moment in a really beautiful club in the cellar of a working museum. it’s 15th century building and is made of stone and wood. you go down a steep staircase and there are tables and a bar in this stone cellar. nice stage too. the tour is going really well and it is super fun hanging out with chris cacavas and his band–willy, filipo, and rainer. late nights etc. i’m feeling it a bit, but the time is going fairly fast which is ok by me because i am missing my family and while this is great for me to do, i look forward to getting back. we had a long drive today and our show last night was by far the best of the tour so far (wesel, germany). great crowd and they were very into the whole night. hopefully tonight will go great as well. i am mixing my sets up each night and am including songs from the brand new album and the response seems good. i have done a few interviews with radio and newspapers so there seems to be some mounting interest. well, that’s all for now. thanks for everyone’s support. i am trying to bring back copies of tercero to sell on the web site and will keep everyone posted on that…. peace out. p.s. hey cacavas, if you’re reading this could you grab me a beer?
Sid
Fall 2005 Tour Journal Entry: 1
kassel, germany. i arrived in germany yesterday and took a train to karlsruhe, where chris cacavas (the guy i’m opening for) lives. he picked me up. i spent the day trying not to fall asleep and having a great time with his family. he is very cool and we had a great time hanging out last night at his local pub. today we met up with his band and drove to kassel. right now he is soundchecking and i’ll be next. the band and sound guy are swell as well so the tour has started off quite jovially. by the way i’m going to stick with ‘jovially’ as a word for now. i feel fairly strong about it. if it’s not a word it’s only because my english is a little rusty after all this time in germany…. of course missing my family alot, but also missing the quartet and jack since last february he and i were together over here. next time i really hope it’s possible to bring the entire quartet. germany is ready for us finally. and we will, in chris cacavas’ words, “bring the rock.” nothing much else to report right now…just getting my barings and eating a fair amount of cheese. send e-mails…it cheers me up. peace out.
Winter 2005 Tour Journal Entry: 9
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.
Winter 2005 Tour Journal Entry: 8
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..