Tour Diary: Citizens! (Part Eleven) • Neu • DIY Magazine

Citizens! have been out on their debut UK headline tour for a little while now and the band has been keeping a detailed diary for DIY. Here’s the 11th instalment in the series, this time the band hit Cambridge for some time with Darwin, dodgy band stickers and a disused ambulance.

Lots of fun in Cambridge. I’m aiming for slightly more exciting pictures as of today. MAN BITES DOG, coming up!

Walking through Finsbury Park to the van pick up in unseasonal February sunshine, I spot the beautiful old Victorian cooling tower through a gap in the houses. All that beauty on a mere public utility building. Pitt The Younger, I salute you.

After a week in a standard tour van, Grant decided to liven things up with an adapted old NHS ambulance. We’re trying to mix things up on this leg of the tour.

In every regional Wetherspoons there are boards on the walls detailing famous local celebrities. Luton had Paul Young (I kid you not), Cambridge had a slightly more exalted collection of alumni. Here we see a board detailing Darwin’s time in the area and his impact on scientific thought, which as far as one can gather from these illustrations, was to evolve from an ape like creature with a normal head, to a fully formed homosapien by the end of his adult life. Some man.

This is the least attractive band sticker in history. I don’t really know what to make of it.

Cambridge was a great show, thanks to everyone who came down. French, Italian, South African, and of course some future Cambridge alumni. (No one with an ape body but human head, alas). But it’s Wales tomorrow and then some filming so it’s an early load out and an early hit the road. Cymru here we come.