The Junction, Cambridge
Disaster! Somehow, nobody knows how or why, in the middle of the soundcheck, Kerry's double bass lurched out of its stand and smashed its own neck off with an extraordinary crashing and breaking and snapping sound. Kerry has had that bass since she was twelve. She was devastated. Its body looked very small and strange without its neck. But then, so would mine.
Paul leaps into tour-managing action and by the end of the evening a replacement bass has arrived and the courier has taken the bass corpse away for bass burial. Unfortunately it doesn't come in time for the gig, so Kerry has to do a lot of gig just singing and mooching about trying to look busy. The audience were very sympathetic when they heard the story. Perhaps they will forgive us for the bassless show. They seemed pretty happy, though. Kerry was also happy to hear that Southampton are through to the FA Cup final. Her brother was featured in the Southampton Evening Echo for doing a lap of St Mary's after the first goal.
Matt's throat is a bit ragged. Hope he's not coming down with something.
