Day 19: New Haven, CT
Nau mai
Yesterday we played in the Puritan colony of New Haven, Connecticut.
This is the new sport.
I slept late after a big night of supporting Jon in his racing career, and I had just risen from my bunk when bus driver John arrived and began changing everyone’s sheets (this happens once a week on a bus tour).
I headed to the galley and constructed a simple breakfast using ingredients from pantry, fridge, and fruit bowl. Fresh strawberries were quartered, a kiwifruit was roughly sliced, a handful of blueberries were tumbled from a punnet, chunky granola was shuffled from a bag, several spoons of thick, Greek yoghurt were dolloped into my bowl.
Our home for the day was the College Street Music Hall, which despite the atrocities committed by the mixed case typeface atop the building’s awning was actually a handsome old theatre that dates back to 1926. We were right in the centre of the city with the famous New Haven Green right down the end of the block and the local university only a few blocks away.
A group of union stage hands stand ready in their hi-vis to unload Spoon’s trailer and transport all the gear safely across a busy footpath.
The rest of this run is a co-headline tour with the band Spoon, a five-piece rock band from Austin, Texas. As you can see in the below photograph the stage is quite busy with the full setup from both bands.
Finally I have some photos of what we look like on stage. Here are some Polaroids from the show captured by Sam Trissel.
We went next door after our set and got fresh cookies. Liz took this great pair of photos. Now finally everyone can see what we look like when we are queuing up to get cookies.
The shaky filming is not due to Jon’s lack of a steady hand, but from the bus being in motion, something that adds to the immersion while playing the Gran Turismo 4 driving simulator.
