Paul Bielatowicz

After our long journey the previous night, we had a late breakfast in Collin and Jessica’s garden.  Mattias had stayed over at Collin and Jessica’s house and Max came round late in the morning… we had a great morning / afternoon chatting in the sunshine.
I got a train to the airport at 6pm, checked in [...]

As I should have learnt by now, when sharing a room, all sleeping plans go out of the window!  Having set our alarms for 9.55; 5 minutes before we had to be down for breakfast/production meeting, I was awaken by Ruben’s phone, receiving a text message at 6.45 (which was NOT welcomed seeing as we’d [...]

My alarm went off at 8.15am – giving me and Ruben enough time to have showers and get down to breakfast for 9; the time of our scheduled production meeting.  At 9.45 we called Henk and Wilco’s room and, apparently (I didn’t make the call), a very dazed Wilco answered the phone and said they’d [...]

The plan for this morning was for us to meet at Collin and Jessica’s studio at 9.30, load our gear into Alco’s van (Alco is our front of house sound engineer) and then set off for Germany. However, it was decided (very sensibly, if you ask me) that it didn’t take the entire band [...]

The plan for today was for the band (minus Neal) to rehearse in the morning and afternoon, before Wilco and Henk had to leave for a gig in the evening.
We started our 10am rehearsal at 11.30 and ran the set for our coming shows.  After a break for lunch, we ran the set once more [...]

Vanessa, my wife, dropped me off at the airport at 10.30am. I found my check-in area (zone E; the same zone as I’d checked-in to a few weeks ago) and joined the end of a VERY long queue. At the entrance to the queuing area (how much do us Brit’s love queuing?… we’ve [...]