Mission of Burma at Stonehenge.
Bona-fide rock set tonight at the Fleece in Bristol (the club used to be a wool warehouse). Future of the Left went on before us. Extremely great. If they come into your town, check them the fuck out. Unfortunately that’s the last gig w/them.Tuesday Dec. 4:Sleep good. Relaxed up-get. Coffee, food, walking around town. Definitely an interesting place, Bristol. They say it’s been around for a while. Even their 20th century architecture was interesting.

Driving north – they say it’s gonna get colder. Strange, even in Europe when you go north it gets colder. That isn’t just an American phenomena.

The club in Leeds, the Brudenell Social Club, was great. Sofas in the main room, outdoor picnic tables, etc. After I requested “some proper beer” instead of the COORS LIGHT they had in our fridge, things improved (A Scottish IPA called PUNK IPA). Bilge Pump was a very interesting classic Leeds’ sounding band. (though none of them had heard of the FAST compilation). Fun night, great people. Our set had some odd technical problems and it never really got going in our opinion, but the crowd enjoyed it. Drew Millward, who did the London poster based on a Burmese postage stamp, dropped some posters off for us. While I was selling merch. at the end of the night he brought me a shot of Laphroaig – a very nice way to smooth out the night’s end.

The hotel room at the Ibis was so small that one couldn’t close the door without moving a bed, not to mention the odd post-Man Who Fell to Earth bathrooms. But we all slept well and left a bit earlier to get to Glasgow, a def. interesting city. Bit of snow on the ground driving up – hell, you’d think it was VT or something…….

Listening to Cheap Trick and Czech bands (our driver, Alesh’s, home country) in the van and discussing, with much fervor, the quality of the sacks we each brought in from our road stop to serve as trash bags for the van. “How’d you get a clear sack?” Etc….. The excitement of the road, whew! Almost too much…..

Nice hills developing outside, dusted w/snow. Heading into Scotland.

Mono club in Glasgow. Great joint – one wing is a record store, another wing is nothing but fanzines (and an incredible variety at that). the main room is a vegan restaurant. They fed us and it was the best meal we’ve had so far (and none of us are vegetarian).
Excellent night. Two solid opening bands, the 2nd one ——- was an all-girl band straight out of 1977. Very charming. We were back on track tonight. The main thing seems to be to rip everything open in the first 4 or 5 songs – after that, if we do the correct ripping, anything can follow and it will work. We managed this quite well tonight.

Interesting hotel with spiral stairs in a rock tower. We all had little billets for sleeping, but at least in the room I was this night (with Jimmy’s “Wave Machine” roaring) we all got a good sleep.