Back on tour but this time without all the travel. For this gig you see has us working in tralee at on of the biggest festivals in Ireland The rose of tralee.
Now this does have its advantages as it means we do not have to travel which is always a bonus. In fact i was able to cycle to work something which does not often happen. We also know tralee really well and all the ins and outs in terms of performance spaces and such like.
It does however have its disadvantages the main one being that it is our home town and that brings its own pressure. I am not sure why but i always seem to become nervous before we have to perform in tralee.
Now generally i am known to be amongst the coolest cucumbers on the planet but performing in tralee always puts me in a state of relaxed tension as i would call it, i get edgy i really dont know why cos i know that our show rocks and will slay if we bring it on so it must be something else. The fact that people who know you might be in the audience does not put us off. So what is it. And in fairness audiences in Tralee have always been good to us. Its the same kind of nerves that i get when we have been going through our "quite time" in January and Feburary and we have not had to do a show in a while, i get nervous before our first run out this is natural and i have come to expect this.
Anyway enough waffle on to the gigs.



The rotten weather may have washed away some of the glamour but there was still plenty to go round. In any event the rain came and we had t brave the elements.
The next day it was down to the real business as we had shows to do.
So we did two shows in the town square which were both very well recieved and which despite the nerves i did enjoy doing. We also got to provide pre parade entertainment to the punters as they waited for the parade to come along. The parade itself was great although i hear that it was late arriving down the town, as usual. Most real tralee people are copped on enough to ignore the programme and add at least half an hour to the advertised times.
Still good crack though and i imagine that the organisers were happy with how the event went off and most importantly they got good weather which helps a lot. The town square was kept hopping for the duration of the festival with an energetic programme of performances and bands.
Unfortunatly i did not have the camera on the case as much as usual to catch the vibes so we are to be visually starved on this occasion.
I also threw in a shot of Ronaldo from the Quality Hotel cos i reckon it is a good shot of the boy Ronaldo and i captured it during the rose weekend but not at the rose cos Ronaldo is more of a rhododendron.