Alex Band UK

Greetings children! Sorry I haven’t written in a while. So, where did we leave off? Ah yes, coming home to our break. The last few days of our overseas tour were spent in Italy shooting “Music In High Places” for MTV and Direct TV. It aired last Friday and will rerun a lot. It really turned out great, I was proud of us boys. They shot it all on High definition windscreen cameras which weighed like a hundred pounds. You should have seen the camera men trying to chase us around on scooters and horse and buggy rides running all over cities like Florence and Sienna. I never thought in a million years that we would show up in a remote little city like Sienna and be bombarded with fans! Throughout the three days we got to play a bunch of songs acoustic for hundreds of people in some of the most beautiful settings in the world. Unfortunately, by that time, the band and I were barely alive. We were all running on fumes the last day. Luckily we got to go back to my parent’s place outside of Rome for the last locations. I guess they couldn’t rent us scooters so they bribed some local kids to let us destroy theirs…Thanks guys! Man you should have seen us. All that pent up need for speed after two moths of driving nothing. Sean was doing peel outs, I was doing pop wheelies, and Billy kept jumping off and running along side his bike like Mission Impossible 2. If you didn’t catch the show I strongly suggest getting your hands on it…They did an amazing job putting it together. As expected our short break was slowly getting eaten away at by more gigs. Literally 12 hours after we got home, Aaron and I and our ladies got invited to Skywalker Ranch for the premier of Star Wars! Even though I could barely stand up with exhaustion, how could I pass that up?! We flew yet again up to San Francisco and enjoyed the festivities. The movie was way better than the last piece of $%^#@ they called Star Wars. I’m sure you’ve all seen it by now. Carson and the TRL gang were there along with lots of celebrities. We got a tour of the offices. It was funny seeing where these people work, really hard conditions: A mansion on thousands of acres, vineyards, lagoons, deer prancing through the fields, not too shabby. The following days I slept like the whole time trying to recuperate. We got to do Jay Leno again which was cool. We found out we were doing it at like the last minute, but that’s how my life is. Aaron though it was a good time to debut his afro on national television…anyone see it? How could you miss that heed, it’s like a watermelon on a toothpick. After he reads this he’s going to cry himself to sleep on his big pillow (a little Mike Myers humor). Anyway, the rest of our time off was good. Aaron and I saw lots of movies, spent time with our families and girlfriends while the rest of the band…played music? Sean sleeps spooning with his guitar mumbling “I Will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston. Well, maybe not, but you get the point. Of course the last three days of my precious time off was spent sick as a dog with the flu. It’s funny, it only really happens when my life slows down and I actually have the time to get sick. I spent most of my time at home driving all over doing errands and stuff always listening to the radio in the hopes I’ll hear “Adrienne” for the first time on the radio. It went on and on for two weeks with nothing. I swear if I heard Venessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles” one more time I was going to puke (It’s a great song the first 46,576 times). Finally, on the last day of the break, I was in the car going down into an underground parking lot listening to Star radio as usual when they said “Here’s The Calling’s new hit Adrienne”! I was all like Yah #$%*ers play it! But it started to break up cause I was going too far down and there were like 20 cars behind me in a line to park all honking their horns cause I couldn’t turn around so I just stopped. “Go #$%^ head! What’s your problem buddy!” I said “You don’t understand, I have to listen to this song, this is important.” One guy a few cars back screamed “f*ck your song!” Anyway to make a long story short I sat there for 4 minutes and 5 seconds making everyone behind me tune their radios to Star and listen to Adrienne…it was a bonding experience. The band and I packed our bags and embarked on yet another tour that started in Orlando Florida…Disneyland! Where the best ride is the ride home (just kidding, I love Disneyland). We played the Hard Rock and we were greeted back to this world with a great crowd full of you guys! The next day was truly a once in a lifetime experience. We played Atlanta’s Centennial park for 100,000 people. We were part of a great radio show with India Arie and John Mayer. I can’t explain the rush and the feeling you get walking onto a stage with that many people staring back at you. I was just trying not to trip and fall on my face cause I almost did that the other day and now I’m going to have a complex. We just played a show with Alanis Morisette and she did the same so I don’t feel as stupid. Tripping aside, her performance was incredible and I keep having to pinch myself and realize how amazing it is that we’re playing shows with these huge bands. We did this Fox show that was called “Teenapalooza” or something. We met Craig David, he was really nice and just overhearing his vocal warm up you could tell how bad ass his singing was. We got to hang with good old Regis and Kelly again on their show in New York. They actually let us play two songs which was a first for that show. They only let bands play 2 minutes and 30 seconds of their song which is a minute shorter than practically every song in history. So we were flattered. I think they even canned Rupert Everet’s appearance to yap to us which was really sweet of them. We’re playing a show at an all girls catholic school graduation today…so hard my life is. I heard the “Adrienne” video wasn’t on TRL last Thursday. You guys have done a fantastic job so don’t be down about it. Let’s just keep up the good work and try and get it back on. I know I’ll be calling. The other day a fan named Shawna gave us an amazing collage of hundreds of pictures from our last US and over seas tour. An amazing gift that we will treasure forever. Thank you, all of you for all your love. Until next time. Much love,
Alex and the gang