So tour is over and it’s back to the daily grind. Joy of all joys! However, this will merely inspire us further and we are desperately keen to get back out on tour and destroy the rest of the UK, Europe and the whole world! I thought about doing the traditional blow-by-blow tour blog, but as I know how boring that would be for me to write, I can only imagine how dull it would be for you, dear reader. We ain’t Motley Crue and there ain’t no tales of decadance to impart, merely tales of pure Scottish anti-punk skunk’n'roll destroying venues across the land!

We had a blast melting faces all across the country and to say that we are stoked with our first six months as a band would be an understatement. When we first spoke about the birth of Joey Terrifying in the dying light of last summer, I would never have imagined that we’d have done as much as we have by now. I sense, however, that this is merely the beginning.

There are many people to whom we owe sincere thanks and debts of gratitude, not least our comrades in The Hijacks for entrusting their trusty tour Transit ‘Barry’ to our care. Thanks so much, without your faith we’d have fallen at the very first hurdle. Thanks also to Garrick for sorting us out with the show in South Shields. This was the first time that Tragical History Tour has opened for Joey T! Cheers also to Myklon B for the Axis album that scared the shit out of us at 4am!

Thanks to Kev Chin for letting us wash in Crewe and helping us realise the best place there is the road out Much love also to our boys in The Emos for sorting us out in Bolton and for just being generally exemplary hosts. Colwyn Bay was madness so thanks to all the nutters who came out to see us and to Ste and Zoe for sorting us out. Big love to our favourite psychobilly in Sheffield (Rob) for treating us like we were an actual band and being a thoroughly awesome dude.

Big, big thanks to Stiv from Acid Drop and Alex from Skank Agenda for letting usa grace the stage of the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds at such short notice and mad love to DJ Joey Saint and Sarah for letting us stay and use their facilities. It would be a disservice not to also thank Bill Lloyd for the magnificent banter and showing us the insides of the greatest tour bus we have ever clapped eyes on.

Thanks to The Black Market Venue and Satan’s Mineons for being sound to us in Warsop and to MC for going above and beyond the call of duty to show us his support. We must extend sincere and humbled thanks also to Pippa and all the staff at The Cavern in Exeter for showing such hospitality and care to a bunch of Scottish punks and to Jon from the Cut-Ups for making the whole thing possible. Props to the boys of the Birmingslam Hardcore Collective for putting us on and to the crazy bar owner for letting us loose in his venue, although I personally have never been so keen to sleep in the van!

Cheers to Dave Fungalpunk for putting us on and the boys in Rising Strike for checking us out for a second time in Bradford. Love also to the House of Crust and The Wrecking Pit for sorting us out with Scottish dates with our new best friends Blackjacket. Much, much love to all the troops in Blackjacket, our paths will most certainly cross again!

The tour was a most eye-opening and enlightening experience and one which we are desperatly keen to repeat. Thanks to everybody who came out to a show, bought a CD or a shirt, watched our band, said hello, offered us food/drinks/floors to crash on and even to the folk who thought we sucked. We have never given so much of ourselves night after night and it is gratifying to think that people may have understood where we are coming from and taken something positive from the whole experience.

We most certainly have.

See ye back on the road later in the year.

Much love and respect,
Joey Terrifying