Today was a day that we were looking forward to for a while now, as we were going to Maidstone to play the large Ramblin Man Fest. It’s an interesting event, that mixes indie rock, country, blues, and a…
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Jul 30 2017
Summer Tour Diary – July 28 (Day 38): Live in London
As it has been on many days during this tour, the Jessica Lynn Band started the day on Friday with breakfast at our hotel, packed the vehicles and hit the road toward London, where we were playing tonight. The drive…
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Jul 28 2017
Summer Tour Diary – July 25th – 27th (Day 35, 36 & 37): To the North in the U.K.
After a great day off in Liverpool on Monday, we awoke on Tuesday to a long travel day…a 5 hour drive north to head towards Glasgow. As we got further north in the U.K., the landscape suddenly changed to the…
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Jul 25 2017
Summer Tour Diary - July 24th (Day 34): Beatlemania
Although I’m most often associated as a guitarist/keyboardist in a country band these days, I’ve been in all kinds of bands over the years, playing everything from synth-pop to heavy metal. But I’m also a solo indie rock artist playing…
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Jul 24 2017
Summer Tour Diary – July 22nd and 23rd (Day 32 & 33): Rockin the Aerodrome and heading to Liverpool
It was another lazy today, with everyone sleeping late and then grabbing food in different places for a quick lunch. Once again, the only place open right near our hotel was McDonalds. It’s unreal to me that restaurants spend so…
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Jul 22 2017
Summer Tour Diary – July 20th and 21st (Days 30 and 31): The Show That Never Was
We had quite the late night party with friends in northern France last night, but had to be up fairly early today so we could hit the road for an afternoon show in Eppe-Sauvage. After yet another delicious breakfast (this…
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Jul 20 2017
Summer Tour Diary – July 17 - 19th (Day 27, 28 & 29): Manoir de Louis XXI
After our show on Sunday with ZZ Top, and our “After Party Tour” after party at the hotel, Monday was the first of three days off! So we gathered for breakfast around 10 am, as we were to check out…
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Jul 18 2017
Summer Tour Diary – July 16th (Day 26): Opening for ZZ Top!
After last night’s show at the Mirande Country Festival, 5:15 am came way too quickly. But that was when the alarm went off on my iPhone, signaling the start of a very long, but quite exciting day. We gathered in…
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Jul 16 2017
Summer Tour Diary – July 15th (Day 25): Church Country
It was a show day on Saturday, as we're playing the Mirande Country Festival. And we were pretty excited to do it too, since Jessica was on the cover of two local newspapers, we had just received the news about…
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Jul 14 2017
Summer Tour Diary – July 12th - 14th (Days 22, 23 & 24): Great news from the South of France
I’m once again putting a few days in a single diary entry, and which is a mix of the mundane, with an unexpected and exciting twist at the end. But to begin, as you've probably noticed if you've been reading…
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Jul 11 2017
Summer Tour Diary – July 10th and 11th (Days 20 & 21): Vive la France!
Our long run in Germany came to an end on Monday, after a final breakfast at what was one of my favorite hotel so far on this trip in Bad Salgau. It was a great finish to an amazing time…
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Jul 10 2017
Summer Tour Diary – July 8th and 9th (Days 18 & 19): Biker Days Festival
Week 3 of our tour continues! We awoke Saturday morning to have a delicious homemade breakfast at the Rumpelstilczhen guesthouse, sitting under a canopy right on the edge of the farm. A perfect way to start the day.
We…
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