End of the Touch the Sky tour
That’s it for the Touch The Sky tour. Over 2 months, 45 shows, room service out the wazoo… Now I’m trying to remember what happened since my last update but it’s kind of a blur at this point. Heck, I can’t even remember my room number today. I know I caught the flu somewhere in there. I know we went to El Paso, TX and I looked for the guys who said “New York City?!?” in the Old El Paso commercials, in vain. In Denver we stayed at the same hotel as Dubya Bush, which went from being smirk-funny for a microsecond (what with the Kanye comment) to being a big pain in the tush when they locked down the hotel for hours. But it makes for a good story. Our LA show was the most star-studded, with surprise guests like Patti Labelle, Common, Adam Levine and Jamie “watch me beatbox” Foxx. Our last show in Vancouver was bonkers… I think everyone gave a little extra umph that night. Boy, I’m gonna miss that tour bus, watching Curb Your Enthusiasm on my bunk before falling asleep and snacking on nuked boca-burgers courtesy of Kanye’s trainer, G.I. Josh.
But as you can see on my tour schedule, I’m still on the road until Christmas. Tuesday we were outside of Boston for the Kiss 108 Jingle Ball. Somebody should’ve told me not to wear a Yankees hat in Massachussetts; I’m from Canada, I don’t know this sort of thing. And Wednesday we started our string of U2 shows. Now there’s an interesting bill. U2 and Kanye West: music with a conscience… and a price tag! I heard that tickets are over 200 mazoolas. Achtung baby!
We did two U2 shows so far. St-Louis and Omaha. There’s obviously a huge contrast, going from the glorious headlining concerts to opening up in front of a crowd that, well, really doesn’t listen to rap. It’s been fun though, figuring out how to adapt our set to that audience; making it as melodic as possible, not having to worry about the singles as much since they only really know “Jesus Walks”. They seem to like the jigga-jiggas, so that’s a plus for me.
Now to compensate for my fuzzy memory, I have lots of pictures this time around. So without further ado, enjoy these little buggers.






