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Touring and working equates to using all your holidays up and a lot of weeknights and weekends; there's no other way unless you fuck work off and that's still not an option for me. If it's an English tour, you can get away with planning it over a weekend with weeknights either side. Steve, our boss, can shift us about in his Polo and pretty much have us back at home before 4AM depending on the distance, 4AM being the worst-case scenario.European tours are different, obviously. You can do two nights at a push over a weekend period, providing flights and trains are good. It's fucking weird being in, say, a swanky Swiss town pelting it out on stage, then 24 hours later sat back at your desk, drinking moose piss coffee. The band is having a good break at the moment, so I don't mind touring because I know it's helping the cause. We've been in the papers, so you have to tour to put the proof in the pudding. In Europe the more you tour, the more regional promoters come forward with offers, so that helps form future bookings in otherwise new territories.Workmates vary in their reaction to your music taking off. It depends on the person, really. There is a lot to be said for the non-careerist, the proletarian blue or white collar who comes in and fucks off home again, "ambition" to them a daft notion that is better suited to the white teeth on morning chat shows. The response from these people tends to amount to a decent level of respect and very few signs of envy, if any – so, you are spared the Mad Max-type arena every morning.Work. Worse than Liam Gallagher's tweets.
— Sleaford Mods (@sleafordmods) July 9, 2014
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