Day 4: Oakland, CA
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Yesterday we played at the iconic Fox Theatre in Oakland, California.
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It is another dictation day. I’ve discovered that if I say the word – enough times I can make a full line, and my block formatting back to its usual strength and clarity. Woke up in my tiny bunk. It was the middle of the morning. Perhaps closer to the end of the morning. Sometimes I try and dress inside my tiny bun but it’s usually a fruitless enterprise so I rolled out closed myself the pitch of the corridor. Entering the front cabin I discovered where you parked next to tall sand the door, I won’t settle had to create my neck to find the sky.
my face and brushing my teeth it was time to explore so I didn’t and wondered across the car park finding the stage door which Did me straight into the wings and out onto the stage itself. I was welcomed by the stunning architecture of this grand old Theatre, richly carpeted room clad and pens, ornaments, gold paint, and decorated with and impressive sculptures. I hated downstairs to find catering found a series of professional photographs that do a much better job of capturing the colours, the dazzle, the brilliance of this space, then did my tired old cell phone camera. New paragraph
My breakfast began at the salad bar where I served a heap of lettuce on my plate followed by of broccoli, cucumber sliced, jerry tomatoes and a sesame salad dressing. Next door to this I assembled some fruits, pieces of pineapple, watermelon, watermelon, orange , blackberries,, and a few grapes.
Update: Jon's new cricket bat.
The afternoon was spent in an out of the green room, comfortable space and the bowels of the theatre furnished leather arches and sit sit cities. I went for a short walk to explore downtown Oakland. it is a paradise tall buildings and I felt swallowed up by the quantity of these are mince skyscrapers. After hitting east for several blocks I found myself at like merit, a paradise for joggers and baskets. fleets of geese sailed around the sparkling waters honking their clown horns and at the beach a child slowly followed one of the birds which lived its way back towards the water. There was a man riding his bike just Wood and purple with his dog also dressed warm and purple. They were a lot of joggers and they ran both forwards and backwards.
Lake Merritt.
Aunty we discovered that it was a fairly sludgy stage. not surprising for such a large icky room but we spent awhile trying to get things dialled out. was magnificent though standing there during soundcheck, gazing up at the tessellation on the ceiling and running our eyes over the trenches hidden away and every knock and aloes. once Gabe was feeling happy we put our instruments down and hit it downstairs for dinner, and then prepared ourselves music.
It was somewhat of a shock just how big of a crowd can fit inside the Fox Theatre. They were of bodies jammed in to the generous standing room on the ground floor and the darkness of the mezzanine must’ve held hundreds Small. The stage still sounded sludgy but the room looked glorious. The crowd of Oakland is with fun festive and extremely good at cheering. Of course we had forgotten that it was Friday night and we watched the crowd give it everything during always a set. What an excellent Band. I will never get tired of watching them night after night. I masterclass in any pop Music. We enjoyed a drink with the Band and crew before retiring to the dormitory Home on the road, blue paradise.
A gift from a fan.
The Beths at Fox Theatre.
The cursed free tour is not going very well.
Better than me so soon ah breakfast yesterday