Hello from Jules!
Hope you are all well and are safely ensconced back in school/work etc.
I have come to realise that Mike's 'Back to School' routine is jetting off to New Jersey each September for Music Fest!
Consequently, I am home alone, juggling my many plates... Single parenthood and rock and roll is a heady cocktail! Sandcastles on the beach, anyone? (Check out photo above.....).
I am also training for ‘Kilimanjaro Rocks’ so I receive many strange looks, kitted out in my running gear at the school gates, day in, day out!
Mike and the band have a busy week on their vacation ;0),( I mean tour), out in lovely NJ... with the Fearless taping and concert taking place tonight at Crash Mansion, NY, Philly Rocks on Thursday (which involves MP back and forth between Manhattan and Philadelphia) and finally, Musicfest on Sat!
Mike is training hard whilst he is in the USA. Mike likes to run and so he has an excellent training partner in Mark Taylor (former Alarm keyboard player), whom we are delighted to welcome back on board. Mike really enjoyed rehearsals last week in London and the addition of piano on many of the Alarm songs.
Twitter is going well. It’s actually like some form of therapy... releasing your feelings through the day so I hope you are enjoying my tweets. I am enjoying having direct contact with you all and I have now worked out how to add photographs! Check out the rough text photo of Mike and the guys at the Barry Festival on Sat, sent to me by Alarm promoter, Dave Driscoll.
Mike will also be joining Twitter, once we re-launch
www.thealarm.com so no doubt Mike and I will be communicating via tweet ourselves! I have just started following Lance Armstrong, Muse and Sarah Brown and plan on hooking up with Jonathan Ross for a welcome injection of humour. You can find me as ‘Jules Peters’ (there are 3 or 4 so make sure you choose the right one – I’ll be the one with lots of twittering).
The Gathering has sold really well so we are busy right now assembling the Gathering packs to post out to you all. I will also be emailing all Gatherers personally over the next couple of weeks with all latest Gathering information. For those Gatherers who have not yet been in touch with their list of names/ages etc, please email your information to mpo@alarmpo.demon.co.uk when you have a moment.
I have been promised the UK Nov/Dec Alarm tour dates today so fingers crossed, we will be adding these dates to the website very soon. Please make sure you have signed up for mailchimp on the front page of
www.thealarm.comLastly, thanks for all the photos of you with Mike It was very poignant collating all the photos and watching the slideshow. Our Video guys, Paul and Rob (who film the Gathering every year) are busy working in production right now.
Stay tuned!
Love
Jules x
