Well, it’s been a few days since our final show with Radiohead and I’m still having post-tour depression. The Cleveland inaugural aforementioned grill party that happened turned into a Radiohead tradition, with Jonny, Colin and Ed joining us for future BBQs in Boston and Toronto. Mind you some of them are vegetarians, but Veggie burgers do exist kids! In Boston it was really nice, my brother not being much of a music aficionado, was chatted up by Jonny for a good period of time telling him embarrassing stories about my childhood without realizing he had just watched a show with him in it.

The final night in Toronto was a really special one, probably my most memorable one. Feist and Final Fantasy came to visit and hang out for the show and bring all around good vibes to us (we’ve been on support tours with both of them in the past). During our set, we played in the rain, but towards the end two rainbows appeared and the sun came out just in time for Radiohead to play a magical set. We played “He Hit Me” for the first time on the tour because we had remembered Thom had spun that track on the BBC back in the winter and our bassist Chris Taylor caught him watching and dancing side stage which made us all smile.

During their set I settled into the crowd with my friends and watched them perform one of my favorite sets of the tour. To our surprise, the Colin and Jonny came out in our new “cat” T-shirts. It was an extremely bitter sweet experience to see it all end. As I mentioned before the whole tour was a whirlwind of surreal concerts, at this point almost seeming like it never happened.

Thankfully after the show there was an afterparty at which I got to thank each member personally for bringing us out on the road. Fairly exhausted I left a bit early and was convinced by Leslie and Owen (Feist and Final Fantasy) to stay the weekend and go to Leslie’s cottage in the countryside, so I crazily packed my bag and came down off of one of the most exciting tours of my life in the rural Ontario countryside, cooking homemade pasta and beet salad and swimming in little ponds, washing away the tour bus grime.

Meanwhile on the West Coast the Liars and Radiohead begin the second half of the U.S. tour, which I’m sure will be utterly spectacular. Wish we could be there! Now I’m home, going to my local coffee shop, walking my dog and settling back into a very un-rock star existence.

Thanks again Radiohead for a wonderful two weeks.

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