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Earlier this month South East gloom punks Miss Vincent<\/b> hit the road alongside London rockers Nightlife<\/b><\/a> for a run of DIY shows that took both bands up and down the country.<\/p>\n Having released an appreciative second EP in ‘Reasons Not To Sleep’<\/i> earlier this year, Miss Vincent<\/b> were armed with a mix of self-depricating, moody but energetic punk songs. <\/p>\n To find out what life is like on the road for Miss Vincent<\/b>, the South East group offered to keep a diary of events during the tour. Here are their tour tales…<\/p>\n Day 1: Scruffy Murphy\u2019s, Birmingham<\/b> We had a radio interview scheduled before doors, which we managed to navigate without too many profanities and embarrassments. A lot of interviews for a band like us contain similar questions (describe your sound\/influences etc), but for us any excuse to talk to someone about our music is welcome. <\/p>\n It\u2019s really nice to see people coming back to shows – familiar faces are such a welcome sight and having people turn up in your shirts is really cool. Playing shows is our favourite part of being a band and although the mysterious tuning stability issue appeared once, it was enjoyable. Oh, and one thing needs mentioning about our band\u2026 Diversions follow us around, and tonight was no different. After following those infuriating yellow signs for what seemed like an eternity, we reached our stop for the night. Everyone had mattresses which made us feel like royalty.<\/p>\n Today\u2019s album of the day was Bad Religion\u2019s ‘Recipe For Hate’<\/i>. We never get tired of those harmonies.<\/p>\n Day 2: Think Tank, Newcastle<\/b> We woke up early but not early enough, and ended up leaving late. Thanks to the magic of twitter we found out that the night before, Alex Baker had spun one of our tracks on his Kerrang! Radio show which was a cool start to the day, and the mood was generally pretty good heading up the M1. We had to settle for a fast food breakfast thanks to our lack of timekeeping, but the drive was mostly smooth and we got to Newcastle in good time. On the way, we cranked up Bayside\u2019s Self Titled album. These guys are one of our favourite bands. They\u2019re just fucking brilliant.<\/p>\n The first thing to do on arrival was flyer the town, which we did relatively thoroughly until we spied a Japanese food outlet and dived inside for some sushi. The show went as well as we could have expected given the circumstances, and once we had loaded out we headed back to our great friends The Dixon\u2019s for chilli and beers. These guys are honestly the best ever – they\u2019ve put up an incredible number of bands, and a highlight of any tour is a visit to their place for beers and great company. Tonight was no different, and after devouring a mountain of chilli, things got a little debauched and for some of us (Alex, we\u2019re looking at you) the next morning was sure to be a little bit of a struggle.<\/p>\n Our show in Basingstoke was a replacement for the one we originally had booked in Liverpool. Unfortunately the promoter pulled out, but luckily he had done it far enough in advance for us to source another. We were really grateful to our mate Andy from Yearbook for hooking us up with Jon, who managed to squeeze us on the show he was running with Almeida and Escape from \u201998.<\/p>\n It\u2019s really cool watching NIGHTLIFE play night after night. They\u2019re super tight and their harmonies are great. We had another run in with a slight tuning discrepancy during our set, although frustratingly it\u2019s impossible to tell who\u2019s guitar it is because they\u2019re both tuned and intonated perfectly. The mystery continues\u2026<\/p>\n Day 4: Underbelly, London<\/b> Although we\u2019d experienced London traffic doing it\u2019s best impression of a carpark, actually trying to park in London is horrendous. We had to move the van halfway through the night, and ended up paying a pretty stupid amount of money in the process. Luckily, some great friends of ours turned up to the show, including Foley from As It Is, so we quickly forgot about the parking nightmare amid tales from his time on Warped this past Summer. The venue turned into a club virtually the minute the show was over, and so we had to load out through a crowd of pretty drunk people, and venue security that insisted on patting you down every time you wanted to go and retrieve more gear from inside. <\/p>\n Remember how we mentioned diversions follow us around? Today was the worst in ages – the A4 and A40 were both partially shut, and the drive home was fucking awful. Thankfully, Alkaline Trio\u2019s ‘Remains’<\/i> kept us sane. It\u2019s a stupidly great album by a stupidly great band. <\/p>\n It\u2019s always sad to play your last show on tour but tonight was a lot of fun. Seeing people singing the words to your songs really spurs you on, and always brings a smile to our faces. NIGHTLIFE were great tour buddies all week, and it was sad to say goodbye to them but it won\u2019t be the last time we tour together for sure. Before heading home we grabbed some food from Grubb\u2019s Burgers, and holy shit it was the best thing we\u2019ve eaten in forever! Once we\u2019d recovered from what we\u2019d just eaten, we drove home to a soundtrack of ‘Everything Sucks’<\/i> by Descendents. We\u2019re sad that this tour is done, but we\u2019ll be back at it real soon, so there\u2019s loads to look forward to. <\/p>\n Miss Vincent<\/b> will be touring once again next month with Crooked Little Sons<\/b>:<\/p>\n October \u2019Reasons Not To Sleep\u2019<\/em> EP by Miss Vincent<\/strong> is out now on Engineer Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Miss Vincent<\/strong> links: Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a>|Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earlier this month South East gloom punks Miss Vincent hit the road alongside London rockers Nightlife for a run of DIY shows that took both bands up and down the country. 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\nThe first date on this tour was the ultimate DIY experience. We booked the venue, the local bands and promoted the show ourselves – it makes for a much more stressful affair, but cutting out the middle man often means more fuel in the van. It was so good to see NIGHTLIFE again – we toured with them last year and haven\u2019t seen them a whole lot since, but it was like no time at all had passed since we were last hanging out. During soundcheck, it seemed like Alex\u2019s guitar just wouldn\u2019t go in tune, despite the fact it was recently set up; but we cracked on regardless in the hope that it was just traditional first night gremlins. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/b7b9cc2403343194bea253ac8543a6af\/tumblr_nuu4mrxmbt1r8no6so4_r1_1280.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
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\nIt\u2019s soul destroying and incensing in equal measure when a promoter pulls out of a show without much notice. When it\u2019s 4 days before it\u2019s due to happen, it\u2019s just plain awful. But that\u2019s what happened with our Newcastle show. Luckily, we knew the venue manager indirectly, and managed to keep the show – they were super understanding and really helped us out. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/7b39ec6c03fe3ca8657222368a045a3b\/tumblr_nuu4mrxmbt1r8no6so5_r1_1280.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
Day 3: Sanctuary, Basingstoke<\/b>
\nThere were some pretty heavy heads this morning. Apparently they have something in Newcastle called Dial A Drink. Apparently someone used this service last night\u2026 Still, we had 300 miles to cover, so back in the van we jumped (well, crawled) and off we went. On the A1 we stopped at the most bizarre service station that any of us had ever been to. It was a bit like a cafe from 40 years ago, and 4 black clad hungover band members weren\u2019t their most valued clientele. When you\u2019re on tour, it\u2019s as much a tour of Motorway Services as it is a tour of Music Venues, and this one won\u2019t be going in the \u201cmust revisit\u201d category. Today\u2019s soundtrack was ‘The Young And The Hopeless’<\/i> by Good Charlotte. 2002 Nostalgia, anyone?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/cb7fea6fa13e0f2abd773d5fea718ebd\/tumblr_nuu4mrxmbt1r8no6so3_r1_1280.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
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\nToday we managed a very welcome lie in. After our shenanigans in The Toon and our 7 hour drive to Basingstoke, some restorative sleep was pretty important. We left a mountain of time to get to the venue as driving in London is inherently a slow and painful experience, but today it seemed to be one big carpark. We made load in (just), and the Underbelly was an interesting departure from your average music venue. Imagine a prohibition era speakeasy, only with loads of pictures of musicians that have played there on the walls. Pretty cool. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/fd0b9429cc1757d43fce56b742dc8129\/tumblr_nuu4mrxmbt1r8no6so2_r1_1280.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
Day 5: Latest Music Bar, Brighton<\/b>
\nWe\u2019d been in Brighton about 5 minutes before Jack (Donnelly – drums) got shat on by a seagull. He wasn\u2019t so impressed by it, but the rest of us thought it was hilarious. We split up, one half going in the direction of GAK (which, being Sunday at 4:15PM, was shut) and the other in search of ice cream. During soundcheck today we finally got to the bottom of the tuning saga – Alex\u2019s effects unit has a tuner in it which has randomly started tuning really flat. It sucks when your gear decides to lose its shit, but he reverted to \u2018guitar-pedal tuner-amp\u2019 so for tonight all was well. Pre-show, we met up with another friend of ours Patty, also from As It Is. We strolled around the Pier a while in the evening sunshine and heard more stories from Warped; we supported them on their first ever tour so it\u2019s great to see them doing well.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/c9b72094e26e43b706a35c64809cc2f9\/tumblr_nuu4mrxmbt1r8no6so1_r1_1280.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
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\n21st Joiners, Southampton
\n22nd Underground, Plymouth
\n23rd Workshop, London
\n24th Tank, Durham<\/p>\n