Features Tour Diary: Canterbury (Part Five)

When we heard the really rather great Canterbury were heading out on the road with The Blackout, DIY wanted in on the action. The band will be sending us snaps and reports from the road. This is part five, as penned by Luke Prebble (vocals/bass)…

Photography by Samuel Bradley

Day five of the tour was in fact a day off. We spent it lying in, and making a slow journey from Hull to Sheffield. It was Halloween, and we had been in Sheffield exactly the same time last year. We’d had a good night out then, so thought we’d have another go. While we were in the steel city, we stopped by to see our friends at Drop Dead. We mainly went to see Oscar, one of the most amazing dogs in the world.

Scott and James had a fun night out with some old school friends, and saw loads of zombies and ghosts and things like that.

The next morning we woke up to a radio play of our new single More Than Know on Fearne Cotton’s Radio One show, which could possibly be one of the best ways to wake up. Amazing.

We drove from Sheffield to Lincoln, somewhere we had never been to as a band. The Engine Shed was the venue for the show, and was another nice building with a good bit of history. I think it used to be an old engine shed or something. Its right in the University campus, which is all sleek and modern looking, the whole University is only 10 years old apparently!

Speaking to lots of the queue before the doors were open it sounds like Lincoln isn’t a place that gets a huge amount of shows, which probably suggests why the crowd were so incredible. Bursting with energy, the whole venue didn’t stop moving all night.

The bar at the engine shed is the first place I have ever seen to serve beer by the two-pint measure. Perhaps another reason the crowd were so incredible.