It's always with a worn out feeling of tiredness that you end a tour. It's great to get home and concentrate on the normal things in life - baking bread, making a fire, reading, going for a walk, and hanging out with your family, but there's a secret thrill in getting to still play songs in front of an audience that takes a while to disappear. I know that we're all very much looking forward to the planned concerts in February and April now, and then on into festivals next summer. A long way off yet I know, and for the time being I'm happy to sit here in my chair and think about our shows and all the bands we played with - the Xcerts, Olympic Swimmers, Make Love, and Sparrow & The Workshop: great people that we got to spend time with this last month. We were working our sets from a list of 60 songs, most of which i think we got through, some more than others. Next year we'll continue to rotate as much as possible, and bring some back to life that we rarely play. It's never a good idea for me to pick favourites since every night has its highs and lows, but London, Exeter, Birmingham and Fort William stick in the mind for a variety of reasons. The B.A club in Fort William is a great place, complete with venue cats and snow capped mountains looming over the venue. Inside it reminded me alot of the fiddlers bar in Monikie where I played my first concert, drumming with a covers band, back in 1993. A small wooden stage along the wall of a lounge bar. Our dressing room, which was the pub upstairs, had a jukebox and a pool table and a view onto Ben Nevis. Everyone in the audience was dancing and after wards we hung out drinking with the locals until our bus had to leave. Lots of good people. So thank you B.A club, and thank you to everyone who came to see us play on our 2009 Post Electric Blues tour.

Roddy