Aaah, next stop Munich, Munich, Munich - so good they named you Munchen.
We had Day rooms today in a lovely Hotel, I would have caught up on quality sleep if there hadn't been a virtual fishtank in my room, It was hypnotic - I stayed like this for several hours.

Essen, great gig and very relaxing place indeed, pictured is our lovely tour manager Zoe and a surprise for Imelda - friend Carol from Dublin that she hasn't seen for 20 years and her main squeeze Thomas, much fun ensued on the big red bus.

Hightail it to Essen after a fabby gig in Berlin and a party on the Love Bus!
Today I read "post office" by Charles Bukowski - Ace!
Today fave ipod raves: Pete Williams, Buzzcocks, Bauhaus, Jay Price.

Berlin, Got up, ate porridge, went for a run - good boy Garey.....absolutely f**ked me, did me ankle in, that'll teach me, leave excersising to the Professionals I say!
Anyhoo, much jollity in Berlin, never really bonded with the place before but this time is different for some unknow reason, the sun is shining and has brought the best out of people. I had a walk over to the existing part of the Berlin wall, very interesting and a bit creepy, a great deal of the Art/Graffiti reminded me of the musical "Hedwig and the Angry inch", got my passport stamped at checkpoint charley for 2 euros, how touristly tasteless is that.
Todays Ipod fave raves are: Darren Hanlon, Langhorne Slim, Pete Williams.

Met our lovely bus and ferried it across the muddy pond through to our first port of call, Berlin! Yay!
Best Bus i've ever been in, memory foam mattresses's!

Well, well, well, first stop of our mini 9 day tour, Sunderland Stadium of light! playing for an award ceremony, Darrel being a Sunderland fan was like a little girl in a Barbie shop, much fun was had.
No pictures of this though I'm afraid as we had to sign a discretion form as we entered, apparently Supremo kings of well structured cack pop "Take That" were there for rehearsals - Yawnsville Arizona!

Tomorrow, May 18th we go away to Germany for a mini tour (9days I think). I'll update as I go, my followers are dropping like flies so I guess a few nudie shots are called for.....I'll set a camera up in Coffs bunk! x

Just came back from Cardiff where - with Imelda we filmed a TV show, The Ruth Jones Summer Holiday, was very good with a star studded line-up of guests including amongst others Jonathon Ross, I say amongst others as I can't remember anyone elses names.
Anyway heres a pic of me next to a Giant Pasty at the Train station.

Well thank goodness for Bergen! Fantastic night, Great crowd and great venue and Bergen is beautiful, as you can see though the pressure has gotten to Dave, his yogurt habit has thriced since we arrived,we may try weening him off the hard stuff with a mixture of Actimel and turps. Back home tomorrow so off up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire I go.

Aaaah, Trondheim, much fun and frolics ensued, met some nice people and some I will forget by the end of this post, I've done this fest many times with the Biscuit Boys and Mike Sanchez, very enthusiastic audience.
Don't get me wrong though - It was pretty shit, We played a restaraunt that resembled a Ferry lounge and got our soundcheck cut from an hour and half to about 15 minutes, not good, hired Bass was so bad it sounded like a wounded Hippo with the squits and Imeldas monitor sound was none stop feedback, I could go on but lets try and keep the Blog upbeat shall we x

Dot Cotton cuts a mean figure in her youth doesn't she.

Oh yes, Its Ladies night tonight in Oslo, great gig in Oslo at the oldest Cinema in Norway (apparently, still cant pronounce it). Here is our lovely Queen of the scene Imelda with all of Darrels stunt doubles, also a nice pic of Dave enjoying the Rock 'n' Roll lifestyle back in the dressing room tucking into a lovely crack laced strawberry yoghurt before retiring with his rohipnol mint tea. Tomorrow Trondheim - Bring it on!

Oslo, not a bad view to wake up to is it, although I feel as though I've been hit with a frying pan and been forcefed jobby sandwiches - Damn you Nordic Viking Beer!
First gig tonight in a club that I cant pronounce the name of, its by a Park and roughly translates into "The Club by the Park".
Oh yeah and as if by magic our bags turned up at the Hotel - yey clean pants!

Ok, break over, flew in to Sunny Oslo, Norway, Been here a bunch of times with the Biscuits back in the day but it's fairly new territory for the Imelda May Band.
After finding our Bags had gone AWOL at the airport Coff and my goodself found the quietest bar in the whole of Norway to ponder what to do, several drinks later we decided to sod it and hope they just appear *hic*

Wow what a tour with Big Boy Bloater! I don't think I want to see another beer again. Great having the chance to play Blues, Its been too long. Last gig of the tour was The Norman Knight in the Cotswolds, they brewed their own Beer, Pictured below are Deano and Bloater sampling the local Ale, as you can see Bloater did away with the Glass and went straight for the Barrel, also pictured is the amazing Keets Tour Bus, and Chesney Hawkes on sound.

Off the Plane and straight to Disneyland Paris! Great well needed break with the Family, We had a great time. Mini tour of 2 gigs starts tomorrow with the tremendous Big Boy Bloater! Yay!!

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Photo opportunity GOLD! anyone that has read this Blog over the past few months will know that I take my Ukelele with me everywhere - here is a pic of my Uke in Jeffs guitar rack, It looks quite at home does it not?

Fly to San Fransisco! My fave place in the whole darn world! Its our last gig of the tour and last Gig of the Jeff Beck Rock 'n' Roll Party and what better place to have than the Filmoore, Jeff last played here in 1968! I think some of the audience from that gig attended tonight, the plumes of Dope Smoke whilst we were playing was hilarious, The room hummed with smell, It was how the filmoore should be! I love this place, we had a great gig and a nice little after show party, Its been a tough few months of touring and now its hometime, Erdington awaits.

This is Samantha, she gets Imelda all the big interviews, TV, Radio etc, I know there is a title for all of what she does but I can't remember it, anyhoo she's very good at it.