So where to begin, left London on Friday morning got a really nice splitter with tv, xbox and other things and drove up to Stockton on Tees to a venue called the KU Bar, the drive was going ok until i had a go, its only me which can take us off a motorway to a huge residential estate but once the sat nav had sorted itself out it was ok.
Think now is a good time to tell you who is with us, we have a full band, Adam and Tayo who if you have meet him before you will know what this could mean but he is a diamond and great fun to have on tour.
So yeah we got to Stockton about 19.30 and did our soundcheck and then got some food, we had abit of time to kill as we wasnt on till 11.30, but after bottle of gin, 2 creates of drink and 12 bottles of wine we was good to go. Then we had to check in to the hotel which sounds an easy task.... We stayed a premier inn and we was all paying for rooms and Og's (tayo) room was £10 more than everyone else as it was booked at a different time, so the receptionist was explaining this to him and he goes "Right thats it im going to get my cousin on the phone, im not paying this" and she said "who is that" then he comes out with the best answer ever "Lenny Henry hahahahahahahaha (Og Laugh) at that point i thought he was going to be homeless for the night but all was ok.
Oh yeah forgot the most horrific thing ive seen in a while, we was at a service station next to a motorway and a big husky dog ran across the motorway from nowhere and got ran over it was horrible and you want to go and get it but it was to late, but horrible thing to see, thought id share that story with you.
So gig went well went back to the hotel to sleep and the rest followed shortly, I was woke up about 2hrs later by Og and Adam laughing in the room next to me and Og shouting this went on for a bit but i fell back to sleep, only to find out security had to come to Og and Adam twice in the night due to the noise and complaints and i think his famous cousin came in to play again and Adam decided it was a good idea to start tweeting that Og had been arrested (Thanks for all your kind words for him tho)
Next day on the road again about a 3hr drive to Glasgow, Og was quite proud that he had left nothing behind in the hotel room, 10 minutes later phone call from premier inn, "Mr Baker who was in the room 42" "Tayo Ogidan" "Seems like he has left in a hurry and left alot of things behind, Shirts, chargers, toiletry's" so i pass the phone over to "Can you arrange next day delivery on these things"
So got to Glasgow its sooooo cold up here there like superhuman, did the soundcheck, Adam and the band went to do an instore while i did an interview about young people and music and my experiences which ill post in a few weeks or so the had a meal and then the gig which went great. Its really great to come back after last year, so many friendly faces which we all havent seen for a while, So that takes me up to about now sitting in a hotel room waiting to go to Edinburgh and the maid has just walked in again...... Anyway post again in a day or so, make sure you get Adam's new album which is available now
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