December 7 (Friday), 2007 - Pat Murphy's, Isny

Thomas wakes me up every morning with an SMS on my German handy. Most of the time this is so I don’t sleep through breakfast, but with the low reception in the hotel today I missed his calls and slept in this morning, so I found breakfast at a nearby bakery. In Isny, a  flooding disaster struck the venue and we couldn’t perform in 3 feet of water! So instead of the underground popular concert hall we played upstairs (also happens to be the smoking section and the smoke isn’t so kind to my voice-arg!). The show sold out and I got an big wooden angel carrying a candle from the Christmas Market (Weihnachtsmarkt) from the venue manager, T. Heine, as a consolation gift for the makeshift stage and venue and such. But it was cool, really cool-the big stage will wait until next time (where Bono is known to show up). While singing “Wounded Soldier” I watched some of the warm smiling faces in the crowd and some fans swaying to the music, and for some wonderful unknown exact reason a big lump of gratitude got caught in my throat and made my eyes water. One hour after the show I carried my guitar open without the case across the stage…people cheered! Oops…Now I had better do a very odd thing…an encore one hour AFTER the show. Without a P.A. I sang one more song? Leaving us all smiling!