On my way to Belfast

After Saint-Etienne the next port of call for Gennyworld and the generators will be Stormont Castle Belfast, Ireland. I drove up through France without any problems and boarded the Seafrance Calais to Dover Car Ferry. Diesel prices have hit 1.55 euros per litre on the motorways of France and Germany. The french-spanish border town of La Jonquera is blockaded by striking spanish truckers my sympathy goes out to all owner operators as what the oil producers are doing is criminal, I expect its a sign of the times that governments are finding it hard to govern anymore as the global corporations of greed and greedy speculators run riot. The pics above are of the City of York.

The Police on stage in Saint Etienne France

The Police start the concert in the daylight of early evening.

The Police at the Geoffroy Guichard Stadium Saint-Etienne

We set off for France staight after the show in Dusseldorf, arriving in the late evening of that same day. I drove through a spectacular electric thunderstorm as I went along the Lyon ring road. Today is the day of the concert and it is a mix of sunshine and showers. The venue reminds me of an old first division English football ground.

Dusseldorf The LTU Stadium.

Since the concert in Marseille we trucked up to Mannheim in Germany were the Police did an Arena show, the Generators were not used because the house power was adequate for the scaled down production. Before the show finished I set off for Dusseldorf and drove up the A3 autobahn and when hauling 40tons seemed liked a giant rollercoaster ride, up and down those German hills! The LTU Stadium has the roof closed today for the concert to protect us from the glorious German summer weather.....not!

On the Road Again

Well we picked up the Genny's last Wednesday in England and set off for Marseille in France, I managed to get on the 8:35 pm Sea france ferry and finally parked up about 1 am Tuesday Morning. After a pleasant drive down the Autoroutes of France listening to Bob Dylan CDs most of the way I arrived at the Velodrome Stadium, Marseille at about 10 am Friday Morning. We are parked up close to the stage ready for the Police concert on Tuesday night.

The Way We Were 1970, “Ah - but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now”.

This was taken at a Grateful Dead concert in 1970 (life before Slack Haddock and U2)

Stones St. Petersburgh

SEATON CAREW, (from panama to parmo) by Martin Nesbitt.

O WINSTON LINK " The Master"

A great american photographer!

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U2 - Vertigo (Live In Milan 2005)

Air Freight

All forms of transport are used when touring the world! We have come a long way, since the transit van!

Charlie on the Big Screen

Bookshelf

Reading matters.

Steam Railways NYMR

I went for a drive across the North Yorkshire Moors the other day and ended up at Grosmont Railway Station.

ITS THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN!

Well its time to dust down the old Blog and get ready for more pics and stories from the road, the touring season is just about in full swing so I hope to be blogging in the next few weeks!

Hotel Taos New Mexico

Hotel Taos New Mexico
Originally uploaded by GrahamW

Just an old Hotel I once stayed in.

Lordstones Cafe at the top of Carlton Bank Teesside

The snow started to fall so we went up the Cleveland Hills to our favourite Cafe.

Top of Carlton Bank, Lordstones Cafe

U Turns

These Polish drivers think nothing of doing U Turns on their motorways

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Festive Greetings and A Happy New Year

Well it's good to be home after 7 months on the road Touring with The Rolling Stones, The Police and Enrique. The last couple of weeks we have been to York and Cambridge ( Xmas shopping and University interviews for one of the boys!)

The Old Bill AKA The Police

Well the Police tour kind of fizzled out in the the end with cancelled gigs and we ended up at Cardiff's millennium Stadium for the last gig that the genny's were needed. After the show we went to Tilbury docks and put them on a container ship heading to South America were Pablo and Pedro will be hauling them around to some, save the tree concert in the amazon jungle!

Doubledrivemania

We are into the second week of our double driving extravaganza, we set off from Munich, drove to Lisbon then to Barcelona, onto Paris and now we are in Turin. Tonight after the show we head for Croke Park Dublin!, for some of the trucks its then onto Antwerp. Last Friday saw us arriving in Paris around the late afternoon and it was raining, the roads were grid locked and to drive across Paris took about three hours. There also must of been a big circus in town because there were many clowns heading for work!

MUNCHEN

Well it's a glorious day in Munich today and the sun has shone on the load in for Saturdays show. Since Amsterdam we headed for Switzerland and did a show in Geneva then the production trucks went to Vienna to do an arena show, the gennies went to Munich. The October Fest starts tomorrow but we will not be partaking as we have to double drive to Lisbon after the gig and we have only two days to do it in!

HAMBURG & AMSTERDAM

After the Twickenham shows we drove to Hamburg and the AOL Arena or to be up to date the Nordbank Arena, the home of Hamburg SV football club. After Hamburg it was down the road to Amsterdam and the Ajax Arena.

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Twickenham

After Stockholm Gennyworld went to Aarhus in Denmark and then on to Twickenham. The generators were not needed at the NIA in Birmingham and will be not used at the indoor arena shows on this tour.