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Friday May 02 2008

Kooks tour - Brixton Academy - May 2nd

Rudely awoken at 11am by our manager for a meeting who'd somehow managed to drag his carcass out of bed for a 10am meeting. We scurried across town to meet with Andy Gill again - this time sober - and run him through a heap of our recordings. It was a good enlightening few hours.
Apparently last night's show couldn't have been that bad as we've heard from our publicist that there'll be a review running in the Star tomorrow, and they liked the show. Tonight was always going to be better though... Firstly, we knew what we were walking into, we were comfortable the sound would be better and the tubes were working so the crowd would be bigger. It was a much tighter set and more swaggerful. Back on track. A couple of the guys bumped into Mick Jagger backstage which kept the smiles on their faces even through a sleepless night back at the hotel where deep house played through the walls until 6am. Reluctantly parked our van on the streets of Brixton overnight after nearly being towed out of the Tesco carpark for "violating" their "conditions of parking".