29th Sep 2009
Queers Tour Day 6
After a fairly easy drive to Mobile, we checked in our hotel. I tried to do laundry but there was only one washer and dryer, so I waited for Dave to do a load first. Unfortunately, some lady with neon thongs had left her laundry in the washer. He moved her load and gave her extra time, but she didn’t come until he had just put his clothes in the dryer. She missed her chance but it screwed things up for me because at that point there wasn’t enough time for me to wash and dry mine. Laundry would have to wait another day, but it would have to be soon because I had about 3 days worth of underwear left!
We played the Alabama Music Box, a cool venue owned by Dave who is one of KG’s good friends in Mobile. If you’ve seen my past tour blogs, he was the one who lived on the awesome island where we played with starfish. He’s always very good to us and we’ve stayed with him just about every time since (although he unfortunately moved from the island). Our Pensacola friends Chris, Tim, James, and their friend Marcus also came to see the show! Chris goes way back to our tour with Second Saturday in January of 2004. He’s an awesome promoter and great friend, who we also stay with anytime we play in Pensacola or Ft. Walton Beach. Yay for friends!
I was disappointed to find out that a yummy place down the street called Picklefish had closed. As soon as I saw we were playing Mobile, I had my heart set on an order of their fried pickles but had no such luck. This was by far the latest show we’ve had so far and didn’t get done playing until around 1:30am. By the time we stopped at Waffle House and got settled in bed at the hotel it was 3am. I was spoiled by those awesome early shows - on one night we were done playing by 10pm and it ruled!
NO MORE PICKLEFISH?????????? AAAAAAHHHH!