Goo - 'Oh Wow, Oh Well' Tour Diary - Euro Leg Part 1 (The Heatwave Chronicles)
Day 1 - Keighley, UK to Le Portel, France The night before, Hovis and I picked up the van from Ibex Van Hire in Leeds and packed the van at Goo HQ ready for an early morning departure. We were all pretty conscious of it being Tanisha’s birthday on the travel day, so we wanted a smooth and quick journey to France (and so we could go out for a few drinks when we arrived of course). I drove the hilariously huge van off our wee driveway to collect everyone, and as we’re all living out in the villages around Keighley these days, you have to navigate the van around some narrow streets. It’s a pretty effective way to wake yourself up to be fair! Tanisha and I can never shake the feeling that we’ve left something behind, but you’ve gotta shrug it off and hope for the best. We have a couple of guests with us on this run; Sheep (Hovis’ dad) who was once guitarist in local heroes The Undecided and later Indianic, and bass player Joe who’s filling in for Bryn for the two gigs in Tours. It was a pr...