Fickle Friends - CRAZY TOUR STORIES

In this Crazy Tour Stories segment, the indie pop band, Fickle Friends, shares one of their most chaotic and humbling experiences from the road. You can check out the story below:

There’s something uniquely character building about band life on the road, especially when the itinerary reads: Electric Picnic (Ireland) – 3am ferry – St Andrews (Scotland) Uni Ball. Having had an amazing time at E.P., we rocked up to the ferry port in the middle of the night. We found ourselves parked behind a line of lorries full of screaming chickens being transported somewhere ominous (my resultant eight years of veganism says it all).

Naturally, we decided the best way to celebrate our success was to hunt down the quietest corner of the ferry, the cinema, assuming no sane person would watch a film at 3am. We built ourselves cocoons out of coats and bags under the seats, ready for the blissful sleep we deserved. Then, like a real life jump scare, a lone passenger sat down in the third row and fired up a movie. Not just any movie. Seventh Son, featuring Julianne Moore as a malicious witch who spends roughly 95% of the runtime screaming “WILLIAAAMMMMMM!” (this film has a 12% Rotten Tomatoes rating, I simply had to check when writing this piece). No headphones. No mercy. We lay there, delirious, trying to sleep through the relentless shrieking, questioning every life decision that had brought us here.

By the time we arrived in St Andrews, we were clinging to sanity by a thread. We did our soundcheck, grabbed dinner, and came back ready to redeem ourselves, playing indie pop to drunk university students… a historically easy win for us. Except… when it came to stage time, there was a problem. It turned out the in house sound engineer had managed to save over our show file. After what felt like an hour of scrambling to re patch the desk and check the lines, the stage curtains lifted to reveal an almost entirely empty hall. So there we stood, playing our hearts out to a scattering of “last to leave the party” types. Character building, as I said.

Sometimes touring gives you magical crowds and euphoric moments, and sometimes it just gives you a 3am ferry, the name WILLIAMMMM burned into your frontal cortex, and the most humbling show of your life. But hey, at least I had something to write about ;)

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