Happy Birthday to me!!!

Happy Birthday to me!!! Thirty years old today and celebrating by playing a show in Zürich, Switzerland.
The tour’s not been going so well lately with a few incidents in the last 2 weeks which have tried the patience somewhat – still everyones alive so it’s not so bad, I guess.
I’m at the end of my first of four weeks playing Lead trumpet on the show. Andy Cuss, our regular Lead, is back in Blighty taking a break and doing some other gigs. I’m covering him and a friend of ours from Munich; Rich Laughlin, is covering my chair. It’s been a real kick in the face this week but good fun nonetheless.
Anyway, off in search of birthday cake and to watch my new Star Wars DVDs!!!!

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