Tonight Matthew ill be playing my hometown of Salford. Playing at the eagle inn (where I used to get shitfaced) back in 2012/13/14. Very very weird years..very strange, confusing, painful. Post through the night, post spinal injury, post a lot of weird shit that went down.
I used to prop myself up at the bar with my then boyfriend (who didnt want to talk to me) and drink pints of Crystal (special offer £2.10 a pint) and drink till I fell off the bar..and if I could manage it I’d wrestle a kebab and fall asleep with it in the cab half devoured in my arms like some mad alien baby.
Tonight I’m playing there, not drinking(boooo-no not really it’s for the best), and not drinking for the foreseeable future..it’s only been a month but I feel great. It’ll be strange walking back in there after ten years with a good old head on my shoulders now, (well, a better head) and singing. I used to get recognised abit in Manchester back then, it was just after the first album and I’d been on jools and that ‘are you Ren Harvieu?’ and I’d look up from my pint with the eyes of a ravaged old traveller, think Tom waits after a bottle of whisky and 50 fags and grunt a response.. ‘I haven’t heard that name in years….’
whatchu lookin’at?
In other news I shot a music video on Tuesday and I think it’ll be amazing. I think you’ll like it, it’s abit bonkers, technicolour, fun, slightly disturbing even? New single arriving end of sep/early oct.
Next chapter beckons..
Lots of luvvvv Ren x x