Love Marcus: The Tour Started in LA

Everyone’s favourite high-energy punk outfit from Melbourne, the UV Race, is currently on tour in the US. This is the first instalment of a tour diary of sorts by lead singer Marcus Rechsteiner.

Hey Guys,

The tour started in L.A. That's where the photo from the Griffith park lookout was taken of Georgia and Moses. The show was cool. We played at a Latin club called Los Globos.

We then drove to San Francisco and played a gig at the Rick Shaw stop. The photo of Dan next to the van was taken outside of that gig.

We then played Oakland the next night.

We then drove to Portland the next day and played a fun gig at the Doug Fir. Then the next night was Seattle.

From Seattle we drove to Billings, Montana because we had a gig at Fargo in North Dakota the next night. The photo of Dan with the snow in the background and mountains was taken two hours into the drive, still in Washington state.

The scenery in Montana was amazing. The mountains and lakes made the long drive a little bit easier.

When we arrived at Fargo, we met our driver and van man for the rest of the tour. His name is Joe. We also said goodbye to Julia who had been our driver and general helper since L.A.

Joe is in the photo of Dan and myself which shows off my great new hair cut which Moses gave me in Fargo.

We have been giving each other nicknames on this tour and mine is big poppa because I bought a walking Kane at a Montana service station.

I am writing this as I sit at the venue in Detroit we are playing. It's called the magic stick.

Tomorrow we head to Columbus, Ohio which should be fun.

From Thursday to Saturday we will be in Cleveland for Horrible Fest, and Sunday night we will be in Rochester in upstate New York.

I hope you enjoy the photos and my text.

Love Marcus

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