Manchester Mates

Manchester, England: First show successfully down and onto the next one, a mere 165 miles away. I was looking especially forward to today since I was planning on meeting up with a band guy from a former tour, who lives about 45 mins from the town that Davy Jones was born in (just a little free local trivia).

I waited for him on fall flavored university campus, where our show was actually being held,

then shared a meal at a nearby vegetarian cafe and caught up with said musician and his lovely wife.

Back at the venue, I was admiring the color variety of UK buses and realized there were 3 other bands playing at different clubs in the same student union.

Not sooner had I made this discovery, I turned around to someone saying my name -- in an American accent -- and in front of me stands another band guy I was on the road with a few years back. And behind him was a former-caterer-turned-tour-manager friend who was with him as well.

Turns out the other American band, playing just one floor above us, contained two people I already know from the motherland!