Paul Bielatowicz

After a good 6 hours’ sleep my alarm woke me at 9. I got up and went down to breakfast – fruit salad.
After breakfast we set off on a long drive south to our next gig in a small seaside town called Monopoli. The drive took us around six hours (including a stop [...]

After a restless night made even more restless by some insect clicking on my ceiling throughout the night, I got up and went down for my ‘biological breakfast’. I’d been intrigued by the thought of it ever since our promoter had mentioned it the previous day. I can now inform anyone who was [...]

After 4 hours sleep my alarm woke me at 4am.  I quickly got ready and set off on my long journey to Carl’s house.  There was no need to pack a case for this trip as I’d left everything in Austria a few days early; all my pedals, my guitar and clothes would be there, [...]

After another breakfast of meat and cheese, we left our hotel at 11am and drove to Graz airport, we arrived at the airport about an hour later and got out of the van with only our hand luggage – our clothes, guitars and pedals were being driven to Italy where they’ll stay until our next [...]

I was awoken by the sound of a pack of huge barking dogs. The hotel owner had said that he kept Irish Wolf hounds and I presumed that these must be what had woken me. I open the curtains onto my balcony and was met with two surprises: firstly, the size of the [...]

After breakfast with Carl I went back up to my room, showered, finished the previous two days’ tour diary entries and did some work on my book. I got a call from Carl at around 11.30 telling me that we were going to meet down in the lobby at 1.30 – when the van [...]

Today was a blissfully uneventful day spent in the hotel. The original plan for the day was to drive to Austria, where we’d spend a couple of nights in a hotel before our next gig. However, our plan had changed when we found that we had to wait for a new water pump [...]

After less than 4 hours sleep my alarm awoke me at 3.45am – the time I needed to get up in order to drive to Carl’s house for our 5.45am start. I’d packed the night before so, bleary eyed, I zipped up my suit case, made myself a hot drink for the journey and [...]