"She Punched Him In The Face!"

So I'm sitting with Trev at a McDonald's in Amberdeen, Scotland, realizing we are not in New Hampshire anymore. The accents here remind me of a bit of a chatty leprechaun meeting one of the Boondock Saints. Apparently McDonald's is the hangout spot here. I've never seen bouncers at a mickey D's before but here they have three regulating the doors and keeping the underage loitering to a minimum. There is a mass of kids forming outside and all i can think of is Green Street Hooligans Scotland edition. Some girl just walked in screaming that her friend "Hit him in the face!" and paced around until she was asked to leave. She got to the doorway and got a swift kick from one of the bouncers. It is eye opening to see how big a deal McDonald's is here and in England...Americanization all over the place.

The shows in the UK have been phenomenal, the sound at all the venues is awesome, the kids dig it and if they don't know you they are still respectfully attentive. We had a circle pit between songs in Leeds when we weren't playing, so we tastefully came in with Across The Ocean and surprisingly they continued well past the lullaby-esque intro. I'm digging the foreign environment with the comfort of doing what we do best every night.

The shows have been great, and the sleeping arrangements have been rough. Everthing is much smaller and much less comfortable. We are getting a nice lesson of appreciation when it comes to having a comfortable van to sleep in. That will be a perk for the next tour at home with Alesana. Regardless, we are enjoying this new world and look forward to the remaining shows in the UK including Manchester and London as well as the second half of the tour in mainland Europe. I'll do my best to keep you updated on any good stories or places we go.
Yours truly,
Woody

PS: Fish and chips is pretty good, chips are fries here, English breakfasts rule and driving on the other side of the road screws with your head.

Got our warped tour cherry popped today, felt great. Im excited for the rest of the dates. Got to see some old friends and have much needed bro time. Kinda bumming though on account of being told we had the last week of warped and then being told that we are casually not playing San Diego. We're just stoked in general to be on the tour at all its tough to stay super positive when your mislead like that. I guess we've been mislead a lot lately so its just sticking with the trend. But hey, success often emerges from adversity.

Well we made it through the wet steamy humidity of Florida. We had one of the best shows we've had in a while in Jacksonville. We love getting down there, everyone always reps for us showing us love. Then four thousand dollars got jacked from us and gave us quite a bitter taste in our mouths. We wont let it get to us because dwelling upon things like this can make people resent each other and play the blame game. We did the best we could with the situation and learned from it. Quite an expensive lesson to learn but regardless we learned. We don't exactly make a living doing what we're doing so for someone to snag that much money from a touring band is quite disrespectful but karma is a bitch so we can only hope for the best for whomever robbed us. We wont let this take away from how much we love playing in Jacksonville but we will however take necessary measures next time we come through.

Texas was fun, it was nice to be in 104 degree dry heat compared to 104 degree humidity in FLA. We had some fun in Texas especially with our friends Tanya and Paul who threw Colin a birthday party with multiple rut tables (By rut I mean beirut, often confused with beer pong for those who have never actually played beer pong which consists of two large mugs on each corner of a ping pong table and two teams of two each with ping pong paddles, please ask if you need me to go into anymore detail.)

We're all flying at half mast to meet up with warped tour and play the final week. We've never been on it before and I cannot wait for the experience, I'm sure it will be one.