Roadmutha finally hits the road with Censored ;o)

Ok I know you are all expecting Part 2 of Iceland but that will have to wait whilst I share yesterday with you.

I bought a bus off ebay for Censored Club NME tour and we picked it up in sunny Sheffield yesterday morning.  Ok so it was windy and bloody cold but the bus seemed to be all it needed to be.  Parky was born, she is a 12 seater Renault Traffic and she is a she because she is reliable!

It was only fitting that we ended up in Sheffield for the first date of this tour at Bar Matrix.  We got a little lost on the way as none of us had proper directions.  Matt had a little map that was no use nor ornament but after asking someone we were soon on track and arrived at venue a few minutes late. What a lovely posh looking little venue and I was quite excited about the night.

Venue was in two parts and there was a school reunion going on next door and people were in and out all the time as the toilets were through our part of the venue.  First band was crap so I am not even going to look up their name!!  Second band on was called Sikora and I really enjoyed this Italian front man's voice.  Music was mostly kind of bluesy and it was very good.  Perfect opener for Censored.

Censored were met by quite a few fans old and new and some that saw them at Leeds Festival this summer.  There were a good few people in at this stage and it was set for a perfect show.  The setlist showed 10 songs and the boys opened with "When You Come Along", this was follwed by "Life" and "Play the Game" and I got a rare and long over due dedication of "Johnny Boy" I love that song it really gets me dancing.  They played "Your Eyes are made of Gold", "All You Got to do is Ask", "Get it on" and finished the night on "Shake". 

The Pictures are not so great, but here goes. 

Next lot are picies of fans new and old :o)

I am not sure what is going on in this pic pehaps Matt and Adam would like to explain???

And Finally the first "official" picture of us by our newest purchase Parky at motorway services 3am :o)

Apparently the next picture says it all!!

Tuesday we are off to Huddersfield for first Club NME date and anyone wanting to join us please get in touch.

Any suggestions for "pimping our ride" most welcome....a

Iceland Part 1 - The Scenery

Ok finally realised that this wonderful long weekend is going to take more than one blog, so will show you the site in Part 1 and then cover the music and fun in Part 2 :o)

Day 1 - Reyjkavik

The Harbour and the only train in Iceland (why are there no trains Kate?)

Main Shopping Street and view from very huge hill I had to climb to get to the church.

Halmskirke or something like that with a statue of Leifer "......sson"

Luckily there was a lift to get to the top of the steeple and loads of magnificent views.

Great scenery of capital city and second pic is our hotel.

And some more.....

Day 2 - Excursion to Kerio Crater, Geysir and Guilfoss Waterfall

Kerio Crater (well second pic, first one just looked nice and it was right next door)

Geysirs with first one being "Little Geysir" and it bubbling up close.

Next is Strokkur before and after gushing!

Guilfoss Waterfalls which as Kate says was the only time we were cold.  As you can see it directly comes from the longest glacier in Iceland.  I managed to get quite a good picture of it.

Magnificent breathtaking (bloody cold) waterfall.

Day 3 - The Blue Lagoon

You arrive to what can only be described as barren lava land as first pic shows to beautiful blue lagoon with slimy mud and lovely milky blue water.

Kate Relaxing in first pic and second one showed the natural spring in the middle of the lagoon that generates geothermal heat.

Only pool I have ever seen a lifeguard where hi vis jacket, gloves and hat

We had such fun :o)

Short and sweet and to the point.  Now the lengthy one on the music starts...."Oh my God I can't believe it" - its 4.30am.  Nite x

A severe case of "bloggingcan'tbearsedness"

Well I am being pestered by my mates to post blogs on Iceland and Rome and also some recent gigs.  Well I am sort of half way through Iceland one so expect that any day now.

This has been a really emotional week for me as I find myself either in a state of endless wallowing or crying for no reason whatsoever.  I am 3 weeks into new chemo course and one of the side effects (apart from the tiredness and throwing up) is paranoia really bad paranoia.  Being a positive person usually I am hating the person I am with these drugs inside me.  Finding it really hard to enjoy anything much at the moment.

My usual music sanctuary does not seem to do the trick at the moment and to be honest, it would not bother me if I never left my bedroom again.  Everything seems to be too much trouble, which is just the opposite of last week away in Rome.  I had such a great time in Rome with a certain young man and I am really missing him.  I find myself thinking of nothing else, but of course I wont tell him that! Could a girl really be pining after a man she met a mere 6 weeks ago?

Last night Kate and I went to see The Burt Bacharak Fight Club at the Social and after crying for most of the day (and during some of the shocking support acts!!) the Burts managed to cheer me up with their wonderful "Fizzy Pop" tunes.  We had everything including "Runaway Train", "Diane You're a Ghost", "Pshyco Michael", etc. etc.  Fitting encore of  "Doreen the Angels Fly Above Your Lampost" - I really like that one.  You got to check these guys out sometime they are fab!! 

The only other band worth mentioning is The Foncheros whom I really liked, and got to find out what that second song was.  I look forward to giving these guys a gig at some point.

Ok I will crack on with Iceland now that I got all this emotional shit off my chest....

Oh yes before I forget...Kate and I really have to stop frequenting Kebab shops as we seem to find the queerest folk (and I don't mean gay!) tonight a young man came up to us introduced him as Wyclef and sang "Kiling me Softly" for us whilst we were waiting for our Pizza.  He wanted some change and we parted with £3.50 between the two of us but he wanted £6 - cheeky sod.  Found out later that he was top of the charts so not sure which Wyclef he is but his singing was pretty good.

Thanks for your moral support tonight Kate, hope your eardrums have survived :o)