Dear Friends,

The weather gets foggy and grayish, the spring landscapes are changing constantly and the amount of chocolate consume in the car increases! Outch...

Kevin developed a very scary sound that expresses the level of exhaustion - I called it "A dying dinosaur" - if you saw Jurrasic Park, you`ll understand. It sounds more or less like that:

:-DDD

We`re tired and the rain does not help us to stay fit.

Anyway - we`re very excited to play tonight in this special venue! Carlstock Arts Centre...Some warm food should give us the needed energy...Enjoying the lunch at the Cardinal`s Head (hahah - love the British names of pubs ;-D)

Here some snapshots from the way to the venue...

Calstock Arts Centre is situated in an old Chapel, where some genius architect decided to remove the back wall of the old building, letting the stunning cornish nature and daylight to gaze inside of the concert hall through a huge glass window. What an amazing place this is.

I loved the unpretentious windows in gothic shape offering the nicest views and the colorful stained glass...

The acoustic of this room is a bit challenging for a band because of the length of the natural "churchy" reverb but it carried our music surprisingly well!

The audience was fantastic. So great to observe the constant smiles on people`s faces while playing!

We had some funny moments during the concert :-). One of them happened as I spotted two huge white eyes staring at me from the darkness of the room where the audience was sitting. They looked so bizarre, and I had no idea who did they belong to until I recognized the silhouette of a stuffed Shaun the Sheep sitting on one of the chairs next to the rest of the audience :-D. I had to laugh so badly… It reminded me "Mr. Staring Ram" from the day before...

We finished the gig and felt very happy when some members of the audience reported to us serious goosebumps and fluttering hearts. That`s definitely a great reward for all the hardships of our vagabond-life in the last days… :-)

All in all the gig was really great and we enjoyed playing in this wonderful place immensely, feeling the depth of the night behind our backs…

It would be too easy to finish this evening so peacefully (...) The pouring rain turned the transport of the gear to the car into a pretty wet experience. Soaked to the skin we hardly found the way to the hotel and were overjoyed to finally land in our beds and fell asleep after the long and intense day…

Tomorrow we all have a day off - which means - sleeping, resting, hugging the loved ones and preparing for the gig at The Alex in Felixstowe...

Take care! Till soon XXX

Sylwia Bialas

Sirkis/Bialas IQ - Spring Tour 2016, Gig No.10 at The Calstock Arts Centre, Calstock, UK