ODT Tour Blog 2: Exeter

“It’s massive!” “I can’t believe how long it is.” “The controls look like the Starship Enterprise.” It’s 9:30 on a sunny Thursday morning in June and we’re at Kendall’s car hire in South Wimbledon. Following the tragic demise of the beloved Space Cruiser (which, at time of writing, is available on eBay) we’ve had to hire a suitable stand-in. Due to the last-minute nature of our booking all that was available was a 2010 Renault Espace. Which is absolutely enormous. The extra legroom provided by the luxurious nature of our hire car would prove itself useful in the mammoth task we were about to undertake. Exeter, Cardiff, Liverpool and then back down to London all in the space of four days. But before all that we had to get out of London which proved quite difficult. Once we’d left the chaos of the north circular behind we made excellent time and arrived in Exeter with time to spare. We had swift coffee in a place called Boston Tea Party which Luke had frequented during his student days. Seeing a poster for our gig on the notice board was a pretty awesome moment. During Luke’s time at university in Exeter he saw some pretty incredible bands at The Cavern so we were really excited to be playing there. The gig was wicked fun. Everyone that was there got thoroughly rocked and we had some pretty enjoyable back and forth banter with the crowd. With two dates down the next day would be the shortest leg of the tour when pop up to Cardiff in the mighty Espace.

Gordy.