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Chinese expedition

I'm in China, Beijing to be precise. The gigs start tomorrow so we have had today and a bit of yesterday to do the full tourist thing. Yes, we did go to the great wall, it's massive. We walked a mile or so of the wall and did an incredibly steep bit. On our way down after the reasonably frightening cable car there is a run of stalls selling what I like to call "Toot". The toot sales people are quite aggressive and you have to slalom them down a small alley. Thomas wasn't very good at saying no and was stopped by pretty much every seller. There are a couple of photos on our photobucket

Shows

Yes, we are working here as well as having a ball. The Sao Paulo show was great, I never thought we would put 300 people in a room in Brasil, but we did. Johnny Flynn is doing solo stuff in support and he was really good, he is just such a frikkin' good guitar player it makes me want to cry.

Last night was the Buenos Aires show at 2.30 am. Holy moly that is a late one. Luckily the crowd are like the Spanish crowds and only finished their tea at 1am so were just warming up nicely when we went on. The reception for us and Johnny was amazing, just a really friendly bunch of people. It was really busy and we got treated like kings. The meat here is just the nuts by the way. If you want a cheap and awesome trip then I would recommend this city. Listen to me, I'm like Bill Bryson.

Motley Cru are in the hotel, fuck yeah! I saw Vince Neal last night and we had a set to on the steps of the hotel. Suffice it to say I kicked his ass. Unfortunately they are on tonight and we are off to Chile today, I would have liked to have seen that.

Henry

Funny story

Just remembered. We did a session for some Brazilian tv thing yesterday and they brought a double bass for House of Lords. I did a bit of wee at the look on his face and his subsequent efforts to play it.
Henry

South America

I managed 4 films on the flight: Hancock, Hallam Foe, Kung fu Panda and Indiana Jones 4. Classics all of them. Actually I just couldn't focus on Indi by the end. Despite my impressive figure Oliver actually busted 5 films which i think takes some beating.

We are in Sau Paulo, its big and fun. I like Cachassa a lot, it makes me all warm. House and I did some sight seeing this morningm, we visited a cemetary with the most amazing mausoleums. It is spring here and the water goes down the plug hole the other way. Skill. There are a lot of junk shops and second hand shops in this city so we have been trying to spend money on rubbish and not succeeding. There is still time.

We went to a restaurant today where they have a small disc at each table that is divided into two colours; red and green. When green is facing up the waiters bring meat, when you feel like you are going to die from meat you have to turn the card over to red. Red means "Please, no more meat, I can't eat any more of your damn meat!" Salad is also available.

We also did another acoustic session today, but it was good fun and got our voices warmed up for tomorrow. House has a sore throat from 13 hours of airoplane air con.

We are supposed to be going to Iceland next week but apparently the whole country has become poor in the last 24 hours. This may jeopordise the trip. I hope not for purely selfish reasons.

Here are some sexy photos.

OK so I got distracted...

And didn't post anything new here. But I make amends today. It's quiet for us at the moment, we are just beavering away on new material and planning the new world order, which looks pretty funny so far. The songs are coming slowly but surely and we have a lot of frikking crazy ideas to choose from. It's the prog third album where we all grow our hair long and do a shit load of acid. The studio is getting very warm and manly and the coffee intake has gone sky high, so much so that my joints are drying up, the joints in my wrists, not my doobie joints, they are fine.

We came up with a title for album 3 "Royal Daylight", but we may find that giving an album a name before it is written is a massive mistake. Any way, we are rejecting all songs that sound like just another Young Knives song, and trying to make something jolly and scary and odd. Let's see if you can tell the difference when, and of course "if" it comes out.

Off to South America next Saturday, which will be fun. I'll make sure there are photos, sexy comments and a phat blog of antics for you to read.

I love you

Henry x

Brooklyn

Yes, we are in NY doing some super shows. I am not normally a big fan of this city as the people are rude bu we are staying in Brooklyn and the people are so much more relaxed. I did brunch today with some NY ladies, it was fully sex in the city but there were some english girls there too so it was really crude. I love it when english people shout with laughter in public places about nobs and arseholes, it's the best. Having said that the Yanks are pretty much as rude when you get them going.
We played the official MIA after party last night at Studio B. It was actually pretty good, people seemed really open to us. Tonight is Union Hall which is a small but cool venue. Although I mean cool as in trendy. It's 35 degrees here, I am a fatty, it doesn't mix well. We are going to do the gig in shorts tonight, but still keep it civilised. Maybe we'll go for full gym whites.
see ya.
Henry