Radio Promo and pictures!

So this has definitely been a long/busy week! Last monday we met up with our uk radio rep in the morning and headed over to the hotel which we would be performing an acoustic set for various uk radio stations. It went really well, even though it was quite an intimidating setting, we def made the best of it! Afterwards was a dinner and drinks with everyone. Light was also shed that ryan looks like Ant from a famous UK comedy pair, ant and deck! So now ryan looks like a famous UK comedian and a famous japanese comedian!

Tuesday was a similar day! Another acoustic performance for radio and dinner/drinks.. Afterwards we went back to our hotel for mor drinks and enjoyed a nice nitecap till 4 am chattin about international politics with our new friends.

On wednesday, we left Manchester and flew to Glasgow, scotland! We checked into our hotel and marveled that I was still light outside at 10 pm! For dinner we stumbled upon a great bar called moskito! After making some new friends there we found ourselves beiing referd to a cool club called bamboo and spent awhile just chattin with random people, who all seem to be way too excited by people from "the oc" haha. Anyways, it was def good times and finally made it back to the hotel in the wee hours of the morning as the sun was coming up.

The next day was more radio promo in edinburg. We got to do a bit of sightseeing! Checked out an old castle which was a pretty spectacular sight to see. We also heard great news that Built to Last entered the top 40 UK radio charts at number 28! so exciting!

In melee we have an obsession with puppies and were slightly tricked by our warner rep who managed to not tell us that "puppies" in scotland is slang for "breasts" so pretty much we went around all day sounding way too obssessed with breasts... And I might have accidentally mentioned it on radio haha.

Later that nite we did another acoustic showcase and dinner for radio reps. After that we went out to a club called 29 in glasgow. Another goodnight and I know the other guys enjoyed the karoake room very much!

Ok so trying to recap all this, I somehow lost track and don't remember what day we went to holland, but we did and played an amazing festival called "rockin park"! It was a bit rainy but it was definitely a fun set and the audience was a lot fun! The best part was watching the counting crows play after us on the same stage we had just been on. They're def a big influence on melee and sharing a stage with them and being able to watch them from the side of the stage was surreal! A definite highlight was talking with adam durwitz who was an amazingly nice guy! Other highlights were Live, Anouk and Ben folds!

The next day we flew to the UK and got to enjoy a nice relaxing day off. I stayed in and excercised while the other guys went to a pub that was 500 years odld! Yesterday we did some promotion for radio and some interviews early in the morning and then were spoiled by a stylist with a fitting and some clothes. Waaay too good to be true! After a long day of shopping, we went to dinner at a cool italian place and made it back to our hotel for sleep.

Which brings me to right now! At our hotel in portsmouth getting ready for the first show of our tour with rocket summer tonite!

Hopefully ill see you at one of the shows and enjoy some photos from this past week!

OH and the New alkaline trio album is AMAZING. AS is the new john legend song with andre 3000!

Peaaace

Ricky








Gabe, our tour manager



anthony, our sound guy!






Melee on stage at Rockin Park



RYan during sound check