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Aloha ! We've reached Honolulu... and it's wonderful ... more on that later. Last update we were in San Diego - a nice place to spend the Winter. While I was there I wrote songs, played gigs in The Field Irish pub in the Gaslamp area, met some good friends and enjoyed the weather. Great!
The Field is a good Irish pub with great beers and food. I played three sets each time and went down really well (I got another 2 gigs after playing my 1st one).
We were pleasantly surprised to see Anne & Marty who came along to my 1st ever gigs in Lake Oswego (in wee Mahers) years ago, they now live in San Diego. They came to two of my shows and took us on a trip to see the San Diego sights (and eat apple pie in Julian (an old gold mining town - now famous for it's apple pie mines)).
The last night in the Field (Wednesday) was an absolute blast. The Riverdance were performing along the road which brought people in for an extra doze of Irish. There were a lot of people in there who were attending conferences (spot the lanyards & name tags!). Our new group of friends from the Chula Vista RV resort came along (we are now officially "The Rolling Cabritos"... named after the Tequila we were guzzling!) ... and there was a bunch of enthusuiastic locals - who love their Irish music (and tolerate my Scottish songs :)). All of that mixed together made a grand night!
It wa also great to spend a day with Karin and Brian Six, we've known Karin since 1987 - San Diego life is pretty nice.
The song writing went well in San Diego, however writing songs in an RV is not the easiest - so Dorothy has had to listen to a lot of rubbish as well as some good ones.
I have eight songs sort of ready to record and more in the pipeline - it does take a lot of time ... and we do like to slope off to do other things as we're in nice places. Despite that I'll be ready to record the album in the Summer
And now we're in Honolulu. It's beautiful. The city is huge (over 1 million tanned people) plus tourists (in various stages of sun tan (ie bright red to dark walnut). I've played two gigs in Kelley O'Neils in Waikiki, the 1st was the day after we arrived and the second was last night (Friday).
Tuesday had less people, but they were engaged right from the start. It was Australia day and a bunch of high-spirited Aussies were happily shouting abuse, singing, cheering and drinking. I got my 1st 20 Australian dollar tip - I intend to spend it there one day.
Friday night was fun, Nancy Smiley of the Hawaii Celtic group had posted a few times on facebook and there was a great turnout from the group. I got to experience my 1st Waikiki Friday night - it's one big party - Nice!
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