Tim Dowling: on my band’s nationwide tour, it’s vital to be in the right car
Long journeys provide way too much time to tinker with the set list – but my opinion doesn’t seem to countFor the second leg of our band’s nationwide tour we’ve hired a van for all our stuff, but it only has three seats, so the rest of us are following in two cars. We have agreed that no changes will be made to the show, but halfway to Bristol a revised set list appears on the band WhatsApp. “The other car have swapped two songs out of the first half into the second,” I say to the guitar player, who is driving.“Why have they done that?” he says. “Dunno,” I say. “Since when are they in charge?” Continue reading...

Long journeys provide way too much time to tinker with the set list – but my opinion doesn’t seem to count
For the second leg of our band’s nationwide tour we’ve hired a van for all our stuff, but it only has three seats, so the rest of us are following in two cars. We have agreed that no changes will be made to the show, but halfway to Bristol a revised set list appears on the band WhatsApp.
“The other car have swapped two songs out of the first half into the second,” I say to the guitar player, who is driving.
“Why have they done that?” he says.
“Dunno,” I say. “Since when are they in charge?” Continue reading...