Oxford… You are one funny ass city.

Bit of a strange day all in all. As we had nothing going on we decided to stay in Bristol for an extra day, Mitch was ace putting us up for one more night just dossed out after a seriously heavy session and watched the footy.

Drove into Oxford which got Pete fairly riled as it was his turn to take the wheel, one way systems, no-through roads a seemingly inaccessible venue and thousands of rich people on bicycles (we added extra points).

Venue was open, no PA, no tech, no promoter and not a lot of anything else. 1st technical issues of the tour encountered with a bass amp that had an annoying high pitch wine and then halfway through sound check Pete’s snare broke. Luckily for us Mask Of Judas are bloody ace and helped us out. We’re playing with them tonight in Chichester at the Chichester Inn and again on Sunday night at The Hydrant in Brighton.

First night that Purple Turtle have put on a live band in years according to the bar staff who were very excited by that premise, unfortunately it wasn’t publicized and the turn out was the four bands playing and a few taggers on.

Played in the dark with a few disco laser lights, which kind of helped. The funk we were all in for the day proved beneficial and a rather visceral set came out of it.

HTBM, Purple Turtle Oxford

We parked the van up next to the most amazing mobile take away. Everyone had chips with something from cheese, falaffal and gravy. Pretty special stuff. No real surprise that when nobody could finish their huge portions (bar Pete and Ant) Ant then polished off the remains.

Did our thing but due to the inability to just park up and kip we decided to do a bit of the driving leg for tomorrow and spend the night in Fleet Services. Andy took over driving again. Eventually he will work out the difference between the M4 and M3, second time this week we’ve made a slight detour.

Did give us a bonus of all of us getting a shower this morning before heading into Chichester.