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Currently en route to Manchester UK for the second date of the UK/European Oak Island Tour for Our Last Night. Our Driver/UK Tour Manager, Rich Dyke, is absolutely awesome. A brilliant and focused 26 year old dude with sleeve tattoos, that dresses well and is very well spoken. I’ve been copiloting with him for the last two days now and we’ve done a lot of getting to know each other - stoked to have him on the tour and as a future contact in the UK, even if just for a visit.
First date of tour went as well as expected - solid turnout, good merch numbers, stayed with an entire band of gay dudes last night, and didn’t realize it until the one started talking about his ex, halfway through the night - but we were high, so YOLO.
Coffee is so fucking scarce in the UK, it honestly frightens me. I can’t get anything I’m used to in the states, so I now have to resort to trying new things - which usually isn’t a bad thing, but when I just want a cup of iced coffee to get me through the morning and afternoon rituals I have to do, it’s a burden. I know - first world problems.
The “Royals” cover that we did is getting a great response, and I’m trying my best to let it just sit and soak up as many views as possible before we release the next round of content. So long as we continue to have a steady stream of content coming out, it should be nice to continue to build the Relic Hearts name, and easy, providing that the content we continue to put out is of the best quality.
It feels like I’m doing a little bit of soul searching out here in the world again, which is pretty much exactly what I needed. I like taking the time apart from my life at home to be able to assess and see what it is I’m doing, where I’m going, and if that’s where I had intended on heading in the first place. The outside perspective is pretty much a consistent need in my life - for anything. I need it to grow. I need to be able to step back and look at my life a little bit more objectively than I can perhaps, at home. I’m having fun traveling, as always, but I get to tuck away into my own mind on these tours and travels, and really just kind of absorb a little bit more of myself, and find out more of who I am. It’s funny that I still feel like I’m coming into my own, and learning to fit into my own skin, all while trying to self improve and explore at the same time. It’s exhausting in the absolute best kind of way.
And then “Say Something” by Christina Aguilera comes on the radio on this commute, and immediately I just need to stop writing and think for a little bit.
First date of tour went as well as expected - solid turnout, good merch numbers, stayed with an entire band of gay dudes last night, and didn’t realize it until the one started talking about his ex, halfway through the night - but we were high, so YOLO.
Coffee is so fucking scarce in the UK, it honestly frightens me. I can’t get anything I’m used to in the states, so I now have to resort to trying new things - which usually isn’t a bad thing, but when I just want a cup of iced coffee to get me through the morning and afternoon rituals I have to do, it’s a burden. I know - first world problems.
The “Royals” cover that we did is getting a great response, and I’m trying my best to let it just sit and soak up as many views as possible before we release the next round of content. So long as we continue to have a steady stream of content coming out, it should be nice to continue to build the Relic Hearts name, and easy, providing that the content we continue to put out is of the best quality.
It feels like I’m doing a little bit of soul searching out here in the world again, which is pretty much exactly what I needed. I like taking the time apart from my life at home to be able to assess and see what it is I’m doing, where I’m going, and if that’s where I had intended on heading in the first place. The outside perspective is pretty much a consistent need in my life - for anything. I need it to grow. I need to be able to step back and look at my life a little bit more objectively than I can perhaps, at home. I’m having fun traveling, as always, but I get to tuck away into my own mind on these tours and travels, and really just kind of absorb a little bit more of myself, and find out more of who I am. It’s funny that I still feel like I’m coming into my own, and learning to fit into my own skin, all while trying to self improve and explore at the same time. It’s exhausting in the absolute best kind of way.
And then “Say Something” by Christina Aguilera comes on the radio on this commute, and immediately I just need to stop writing and think for a little bit.