The end of the year found me working with The Fever playing venue across US and Canada, great bunch of guys, and the tour went well concluding with one very flat tire on the way home from our last gig. Thanks to a Mass State Trooper, AAA, and a cranky tow truck driver we finally make it to Cracker Barrel, and then home.

After the tour with the Fever I found myself on the road in the US with the Secret Machines. Cruising around the east coast crammed in a van again. They were great to work with, and with in-ear monitors very easy to work with in the small clubs we were playing that didn’t always have the greatest monitors.

The parking angel saw us through it all. Everyone needs a parking angel.

After the US tour we went off to Japan for 2 shows at the Summer Sonic festival in Tokyo and Osaka. Yet another smooth and well organized tour of Japan.

Mercury Rev started things back up again, with a couple of headling shows, and a bunch of shows with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds throughout europe and the UK. I was tour managing and mixing house sound. A crazy hectic time it was for me, but all in all a good tour. For the shows supporting Nick Cave I had the same desk every-night,, a trusty Midas XL-200. EML from Belgium provided a good Adamson line array, which worked out fairly well for all of the shows. With the exception of a broken multi-core in Switzerland, everything went smooth, though I was beat in the end, with merch, accounting, mixing, tm’ing… Whew!

We joined Nick Cave and the bad seeds at the Brixton Academy in London for a couple of nights. A sort of grand looking room, with a bit to grand of a sound, though when filled up with people it wasn’t quite so bad.

There’s my FOH rig for the tour (with Nick Cave’s XL-4 in front). The above pics were from a sort of cool hall in Leipzig called Haus Auensee, an old German hall converted into a sort of disco/show room.

The Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam.

The end of the tour found us at Pontins Holiday camp at Camber Sands for the All Tomorrows Parties Festival.