april 24 – rock stars in brussels, no sleep ‘til frankfurt

slept late, awoke to light streaking in through carson’s makeshift styrofoam shutters. breakfast arranged in the kitchen by our hosts. their dining room overlooked the city, a great view from the top floor of the apartment.
straight to the venue, tram to bus, in theory. allen and carson decided it would be nice to take a little stroll instead of waiting for the bus. began the walk past some beautiful cherry blossoms, bus zooms past. apparently there was some sort of misunderstanding we run up a path with heavy loads about 500m to catch it at the next stop and board totally winded, carson’s jacket flowing like a cape, kind of a double-time sound of music moment.
few stops later arrive at the venue, forest national in brussels.

before we get to allen’s guest entry, allow me to describe the biggest rock-star moment of the tour thus far. after selling our wares in the interim between gm/alanis sets, we looked for our way to the backstage area, but found nothing discrete. so we entered the venue proper, near the stage, and made our way down through the audience – someone took notice, however, and soon the entire floor was looking our way, & the venue erupted in applause.