Squeeze – 24 July 1996 – live at 9:30 Club Washington DC

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packetofthree says:

24 November 2014 at 11:35 am

Chris Difford’s Tour Diary:

Wednesday 24 July
Walks with Laptop
Flying to America is never easy for me. I hate flying, but this time it was not too bad, especially since I got to sit in the cockpit for landing.

Washington D.C. was waiting with a show at the 9.30 club. We took the stage, and, looking at my watch, it seemed to be 5am.

Half full or half empty it was good to be back playing in America where the fans accept us like a good meal. Afterward, tired and almost out for the count, we raced back to the hotel. I don’t remember much about the show itself apart from some girl who kept telling me to smile by pulling the side of her face up to one side. I smiled back to her with full beam.

The train from Washington to New York was effortless and altogether very civilized, but on arrival the heat glued me inside my suit and to the seat of the taxi.

The circle has come around, we are back in a small van humping our own gear, selling our own t-shirts, playing clubs up and down the East Coast. Our record company is no place to be seen and I feel slightly let down, to say the least. Life goes on like the road itself, so I guess I just have to get used to lousy monitors and smelly dressing rooms, and socks that stick to the inside of your shoes.

Glenn said on stage last night, “This one’s from Babylon and On when we used to sell records.” It sums up the mood, though the eternal optimist in me says it all will work out, smelly dressing rooms or not.

The Globe in Norwalk Connecticut has a smelly dressing room, but I took to it like a duck to water: the stage seemed like Eden compared to four hours in there. The highlight of the night was some fish and chips from across the street which tasted better than they do in my local at home. Our show was ok, the crowd looked happy and some of our grass roots chums were there to help us along. Another show bites the dust and another day in Hollywood slips by, hollywood heart that is.

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