The Journey Itself Is Home

Here is a tiny video I shot in Wolverhampton. The sound is awful because the stage was so small and I was too close to the main speaker on stage.

This venue was one of the smallest ones we have played in. I like small concert halls (I think we all agree on this) because it makes one’s relationship to the audience more intimate.

Right now we are in Blackpool. Apparently this seaside resort is the most popular one in the UK, though when we arrived there yesterday in the late afternoon, the popularity was not very visible.

Blackpool has seen a sizable drop in numbers of visitors in the last fifteen or so years, from 17 million to 10 million. Nowadays many visitors stay for the weekend rather than for longer stretches of time. Maybe we should have been here a few days earlier!

But Belfast was good, in spite of the city’s strange lack of character. It was good because our show there was great fun, and because we got the chance to visit Giants Causeway, a spectacularly beautiful beach. And the coastal ride back to the city was breathtaking.

In fact, I haven’t been so moved by a scenery since I visited the island of Capri many, many moons ago.