Mar 06 Your Favorite Enemies Live in Milton Keynes

I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, 4:30 am. It’s too hot in the bedroom I’m staying, and I’m thirsty. So I go downstairs to grab a glass of water. The door in front of mine, Jeff’s bedroom, is still wide open, and he’s nowhere to be seen… I go down a few steps, and I see him still sitting on the couch with his computer on his lap. I shake my head and totally disagree with what I see… I mean, I am sure he has some important stuff to do, especially since he came back home so late last night, but it’s way too late, and tomorrow’s the first gig of the tour…! I keep going down, and I see Alex sitting in front of him. Double disagreeing. “We’re going to bed soon”, they said. Yes, you told me that an hour and a half before when I went to bed myself, too. I know they’re not lying, so I guess we only have a very different notion of what “soon” is all about… 😉

We loaded the van with all our equipment and suitcases (congrats to YB for achieving something that was meant to be impossible! You must have been a pro at Tetris as a kid!), and then sat around the table one last time for our breakfast! And as we were about to start eating, Alex stopped us. He secretly asked something to Miss Isabel – something we all heard but had no idea what it was… “Is what I told you about far from here?”. They disappeared in the kitchen, closing the door behind them to make sure we wouldn’t know anything that is going on. They came back with glasses filled with something that looked like chocolate milk. At least, that’s what I thought at first, and I was kind of surprised to see that we would be having a toast around a glass of chocolate milk. But oh well, I thought, it’s not the drink but what we toast to that really matters! Turned out that rich chocolate milk was in fact Baileys, a bottle bought in France, but that Alex wanted to keep for a very special moment… And this moment was today, first day of the tour!

“Courage is something that needs to be savored and discovered slowly”

And then we listened to the song “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey. There couldn’t have been a better song to start the tour… Because this whole crazy adventure that Your Favorite Enemies is is one that we’ve never stopped believing in… through the good times and the bad times, we’ve always stuck to one another, and to this crazy idea that now links people from all around the world.

We did the sound checks, and then started what Alex calls the waiting game! Waiting for the venue’s sound man to arrive, waiting for everything to be ready. And when you’re on tour and with such a busy schedule, this waiting game is the most annoying of all… But hey, it’s part of the game, and there’s no way we can avoid it… 🙂

After everything was finished, we went back to the hotel, so the guys could pick up their clothes for the night, and rehearse the songs with an acoustic guitar, just to make sure everything was fine and to make sure that they felt ready for the show that was coming up! There’s always stress before a show, but being the first of the tour, the stress level rose a little higher than usual!

It was great to meet with old friends again, as well as meet some new ones. The Craufurd Arms is where the first UK tour began last year, so being there again for the first show of this tour was like a reminder of everything that happened in the previous years! It was a simple, very convivial environment that we played in tonight… It really felt like being home!
The show has been an incredible one! I’m rediscovering the songs and the band itself every time I listen to them. It really is an experience. The band members, when they are on stage, have this way of making you travel through their songs, which are never the same one night after the other, and that seems to obey no known pattern… The only rule they obey is that they are true to the moment. And this is exactly what happened tonight!

We came back to the hotel and talked about the concert and the discussions we’ve had with people we love… Ate a little and went to bed… Everyone promising each other not to go to bed at 5am… (hence why you are getting this blog only this morning…!) 😉

– Stephanie

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