Tour Diary Atualizado – Indo pra Goiânia

by Raissa Bayley Cooke on jan.18, 2011, under Equipe BBB Informa

Date: 17 January 2011

Place: On the road to Goiania

What happened:

4:13pm Monday

We left the hotel about 1:30pm . We had lunch and then the tour manager had to go to the bank with the promoter. Now we are waiting by the van in a car park while the tour manager gets a cool box for the drinks . Goiania is the next town and it’s 10 hours drive away from here. I’m finding it very frustrating waiting around. It doesn’t matter how late we leave it’s still a ten hour drive. Tomorrow is a full day off with no travel. Very unusual for us when we are on tour… But the later we get there, the more time we will end up spending in bed on the day off. It’s been too bumpy to write much yesterday while we were driving and I expect today to be the same. I don’t like days off unless I’m ill. There’s too much time to think and the temptation to drink too much and that’s not good for my voice or my mental health.
Jay is going to listen to the recording of the Jbs gig from December on the journey to Goiania . We are hoping it’s good enough and interesting enough to put out as a low cost official bootleg. It could even be a two disc set with a DVD . One of our trusted fans,Rich, videoed the whole gig. When we have a chance to watch it I will let you know. If it all works, and i really hope it does, it might be ready for may.
In other news…. I’m in contact with an agent and promoter about Australia and New Zealand. We would love to go there in 2012 to start the world tour for the next full studio album, code name album 3, and film the whole thing for part of a world tour DVD. It’s a lot of ifs and maybes at the moment but I’m a dreamer. With a bit of luck and a lot of hard work and the support of the fans it might just be possible.

5:01pm
We have the cool box and it is now has Ice and drinks In it. I really think we definitely probably gonna set off soon.
Yes, we are moving. Heavy traffic so I can just about type.
One thing I noticed last night when I was meeting the fans after the gig was how good most Brazilian fans are with their cameras. Most fans seem to know how to work their own camera and or phone really well. They are really quick. Still the same as everyone else when it comes to using each other’s though. The unexpected result of that is they often come back two or even three times. So I end up seeing the same people again in a kind of surreal vortex of photo posing. A nice thing is the fans call my posing ,the hands of flame, instead of the invisible oranges that the uk fans talk about lol.

I think it might have been about 800 people last night at the gig. I was feeling a bit better before the gig. And I felt my performance was a bit better. I had a lot more confidence in the first half of the set. We put nightsky and GOS in the set and they both went well. I’ve got a problem in the fast part of GOS but I’m hoping to sort that out by the next gig. Spoke to Nico at lunch about our idea for como estais amigos . We are going to try to find a hour to go through it tomorrow before dinner and then sound check it at the next gig, if there is a sound check. Not sure how long the set will be but if there is a sound check and it feels good and there is time we might try it in the set. If the rest of the band feel ok with it we might even have a full metal version for Argentina.

5:38pm
Stopped for something. not sure what.

5:44pm
On the road again.
It was a piss stop. No one told the band so we didn’t go for a piss.

8:37pm
Dinner stop. Roadside fish restaurant. Jesus Christ runs this place says the sign above the main door. Well that’s a ruff translation.
Dinner was good. The first sign was the menu. About 6 choices. All revolving around fish from the nearby river or braised steak. Jay and the cloud had the steak and the rest of us had the fish. Chunks of fresh White fish deep fried in a light batter. Real chips made from potatoes that reminded me of the chips our local Indian take away does. Simple tomato salad ,rice and beans. Perfect for me. No sign of the magical third ingredient that posh restaurants always seem to have.
I think Jesus is better at restaurants than Gordon Ramsey.

9:46pm back on the road

12:08 am
The enthusiastic driver went over a speed bump so fast, it bounced me out of the seat and I hit my head on the roof of the van. No sign of the hotel, no sign of a city or town. Brazil is bigger than Wales .
Some good news. Tickets for Campinas are doing well. I heard a rumor that it’s not a hotel tonight it’s an apartment. But I will still have my own room no matter how small.

12:52am
Shit stop. That’s a stop so one of the crew can have a shit, not a stop in place that’s shit. Some ungood news, still 230K to go. My revised arrival time 3am ish

3:17am
Fuel stop. Battery almost dead

6:11am
Arrived somewhere.

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