Hit The Road, Wasp!

To quote great Australian songwriter Don Walker, “I measure my position to the obstacles we crossed, the territory covered and the parties that we lost. Those were the days.”

Here is a small selection of photos from 10 different countries and 5 different tours, both solo and with Sean M. Whelan & The Mime Set, Water Music, Remarkable Shipwrecks and Lady Danger.

I think the photos show that, more than the shows themselves, touring is about the people you’re with, the fun you make and the amount of crap you have to carry.

Tour packing down to a fine art

The kind of packing that goes into touring a full band in Australia

Found in our hotel room in Canberra

House Concerts are mainly about the lovely people

Firenze House Concert photo by Frederico Porceddu

Live at Frau Frisor FOSCA by Kate Seabrook

Frau Frisor FOSCA, Firenze photo by Kate Seabrook

Blaison House Concert photo by Jordane Chaillou

Sam and Olga by Jordane Chaillou

Lady Danger and Wasp Summer at Prinz Willy, Kiel by Gabi.

Brussels House Concert. Photo by Sam Rasschaert.

Water Music and Wasp Summer at Cafe Retro, Copenhagen

Our stage under a Stockholm railway station by Eric Lindstrom

Oslo Tour Elk photo by Matty Barker

Every merchandise table needs a protective dinosaur

Juniper style! Bratislava band photo by Kate Seabrook

On a cold December day in Dresden

This lady, on her hen’s night, correctly deduced that we were touring rockstars

Fantasy Mashup – Gosia Winter vs. Elyas Khan

I’ve been listening to Elyas Khan’s new single Bells A LOT lately. When I replay it in my mental radio, I always hear it merge into the playground chanting section from Gosia Winter’s ‘Silver Lining’ off her excellent Lullabies album.

It’s nice to have two different Berlin circles mashing in my head.

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Fantasy Mashup – Ainslie Wills vs Alison Moyet

After a weekend sharing various sped up, slowed down and mashed up tracks with friends, I’ve decided to revive my fantasy mashup idea and post some of the mashups that happen on my mental radio.

These two songs always go together in my head at the point in the long bridge where Ainslie Wills sings “ooh my my my-y. If you are the fighting kiiiiiiiiind” and I hear the keyboard line from the end of Alison Moyet’s Love Resurrection into the final chorus.