11.27.08 Bodycocktail in Cordoba

The layout of the bar made it hard to concentrate a show & the sound system left something to be desired but I did a fun show in Cordoba at a new wave club. There was a lp cover collage on one wall that featured the 1st Slint LP, the Louisville act featuring my friend Britt... that cracked me up. Very friendly people and quite a cute club. David who got us the gig did a DJ set afterwards.

11.28.08 10 minutes at a subsitute venue with seven friends in the audience

An amp dragged from one bar to the next, parking drama and then off to do recordings for a show. Tight deadline. AA batteries in the pinch supplied by David. Out in the street corner and under slight overhang at apartment entrance to be out of the rain recording minimal melodica drones. Low to high. Back the bar dubbing to 4 track at half speed and back into the street to record the second section. Repeat. The best I can do under 10pm deadline is a 10 minute show. And true to form I'm getting the "cut" notice from Enrique as the seconds count down to 10.
I later expand on this recording at Enriques apartment and use it for bed of Sunday night's show (see below).

12.29.08 Bodycocktail + En Busca Del Pasto & Zanstones at Casa los Jacintos in Madrid

Back at Casa los Jacintos where dnasnow/mouseup played last year. This time I get to play with En Busca del Pasto (in search of a pasture) friends from myspace who showed great interest in doing a show with me.
I started the show with a solo Bodycocktail set with songs + voice & occasional melodica. Then a wonderful and introspective rarely noisy collaboration with the full En Busca - at the end someone in the audience yelled "PASTO".
We were informed that there was still 20 minutes we could play and I was able to eek a few songs from the iPod with dying battery and did a Bodycocktail encore set.

11.30.08 Zanstones with En Busca Del Pasto at Basico in Madrid

My final concert on tour was at Basico, where I started my tour 11 days previous. Some of the same people glad to see me plus a few of the Busca Pasto friends. I was on last of 4 & so I used my finished recording from the aborted Zanstones show two days previous as a bed for En Busca Del Pasto to improvise with and I wandered the audience quietly playing people unique chords on my melodica bought a week earlier in A Coruna.

11.31.08 Segovia

Juan Antonio and Almudina treated Minuit and myself to the most wonderful tour of Segovia in the mountains north of Madrid with a Roman aquaduct and 13 century churches. Not to mention the little pig.