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Hello folks,

The tour leapt off to a deafening start in Southampton. It was an intense day of setting up, with some production 'teething' issues with projectors, and equipment and the like, but "that's show business etc". As far as the celestial situation was concerned, astrologically it was Chaturti, a day sacred to the Elephant God, Lord Ganesh, who removes obstacles for those on the spiritual super highway. So nice to have some help along the way. Our support artist, the highly original and without a doubt, totally insane Dr Joel, was also very excited about the fact and had the crowd chanting Ganesh mantras during the show.

Not something support bands do very often.

Our homage to 'If', 'The Wizard of Oz' and our T.O.F.F aesthetic seemed well received and we managed to play hurricane season without completely messing up. The crowd were hot, noisy and happy, and we were very pleased with the first night.