More Canada
Calgary as great as ever (have another show there Friday) followed by Banff. Amazing to get payment for actually visiting this breath-taking place. Banff is cradled by the Rocky Mountains and is a beautiful place, I stay in a room overlooking a forest full of snow and beyond mountains so majestic that you stand humbled.All the gigs go so well, and despite the gruelling schedule I feel alive and strong. Special mention to the guys wearing the England rugby jerseys at the Banff gig. They were at the Brook in Sept and were coming over here for a 40th birthday holiday. Have done some TV in the past few days including the big breakfast yesterday morning. Singing ‘This Being Woman’ at 7.30 in the morning is not some thing I want to do every day, but it was fine. In fact, having been in the same studio the night before to play the evening show I could have just slept a few hours on the set! After that I drove three hours north to Edmonton and played the Arden theatre. The Arden is a beautiful venue and 400 Edmontonians turned up despite the fact that the Oilers were playing the Dallas Stars (ice hockey folks). It was a magical night for me; I didn’t want to let them go. When my head hit the pillow at 2.30 am, the fatigue of such a long day hit me..but what a great day. I chatted before the show with my good friend and CKUA radio host Andy Donelley. He remarked about the tough schedule i keep giving myself and i reflected for a moment and said`yeh, i wish i was ten years younger with all thats going on right now. He retorted back in his Scottish drawl `yeh, but you`d be an asshole..i fell about the place laughing..maybe you had to be there. In a few hours I travel south down highway 2 to Red Deer for tonight’s show. Everything is a bit of a haze as the busy days rush by but I’m constantly aware of the freedom my soul feels out here. Its beyond words for me to capture it here, but its such a wonderful blessing to me to be able to fly across that ocean and find so many coming out to have me yell, spit and whisper to them. See Mr Bush has proclaimed how they are making the world safer and that America has not now been attacked for two years. I don’t even want to comment..you decide.