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Category Archives: Tour diary
US tour 2014, part 3: Thunder Roll and Moonshine
We’re back in Dixie, and our first stop is Pawleys Island, South Carolina, which seems to be a place mostly devoted to golf. Barely knowing a caddy from a birdie, I feel a fraud. We stay on a swamp-moss-draped resort … Continue reading
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US tour 2014, part 2: Kissing a Sunset Pig
We wake up to the brilliant sunshine of San Diego. I walk along the beach path in Mission Bay Park, among bronzed fitness freaks, a Sunday worship group singing under a gazebo, a jogger powering a pushchair, a cyclist towing … Continue reading
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US tour 2014, part 1: Bridging the Fancy Gap
“Wow, doesn’t feel like we’ve been on tour for a week already,” I remember chirping from the back seat as we drove into Massachusetts on Friday. A grunt from the driver’s seat suggests this sentiment may not be universal. We … Continue reading
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Tour scrapbook, or, where was I?
When I last kept this blog in some semblance of a working order, it was nearly a year ago and we were in the US, then Dubai, then South Korea. I loved the process of chronicling the tour: it forced … Continue reading
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Why did the chicken art cross the road?
Our last afternoon in Dubai is spent talking business, rehearsing Christmas music and throwing together a hotel room iPhone cover of the Doctor Who theme, to put out in time for the 50th anniversary special. The Swingles and the Doctor … Continue reading
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Tagged dubai, lotte world, seoul, south korea, swingles on tour, tour diary
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Tippling / toddling.
On a crisp Sunday morning, Greeneville TN is a small town straight from a Hollywood backlot. The red-brick-and-white churches and courthouse gleam in the November sun, and the only movement is a flutter of the Stars & Stripes and a … Continue reading
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Tagged beach boys, chartreuse, chicago, swingles on tour, tennessee, tour diary, usa
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Make like a lump, and split.
We’re at the start of an insane four week tour. Tennessee, North Carolina, Chicago, North Carolina again, Chicago again, Indianapolis, Dubai, Seoul, home. I’m pretty proficient by now when it comes estimating luggage weight, packing quarters for the coin laundry, … Continue reading
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Tagged lumpers and splitters, nabokov, nico muhly, odyssey, this american life, tour diary, usa
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