Danny, Stephan, Brett and BC on the back steps of Belgrave Music Hall.
I took this photograph on July 7, 2018 at Belgrave Music Hall in Leeds, England on the Wavves 2018 Europe Tour.
We were touring in Europe and the UK for the first time NOT in a giant splitter van and this time rather in a small station wagon, able to fit in to regular car parks, able to drive fast on freeways and able to sit more comfortably - ish. The middle seat in the back folded down and we fit Brett’s basses through the hole with Danny’s guitars on top. Everything else packed in around the back.
Danny has an incredible gift for needing to go to the toilet for the entirety of a load in, almost perfectly timed from beginning to completion. In this photograph, we had just finished loading in and the band, along with Stephan from Wavves sat on the fire escape. Brett is smoking an apple bong.
The show was really fun and Brett and BC made a banner out of pillow case with the words ‘Dune Rats’ writen on it. ‘Dune’ started quite big, relatively close to the centre, and ‘Rats’ ended up somewhat squished in on the side to fit.
That night we went back to the hotel and Brett went sleep walking in the very early hours of the morning and couldn’t get back in to his room. BC and I woke up to see him open our door and lay down on the floor. I went down to reception and got him a new key cut and put him back to bed.