End Of The Road Festival / Europe ...

Justin Vernon |

It's been a while since anything has been written on here. But, much has happened.

We have been BLOWN away in the last few months by audiences and people (countless stories) and now that we feel like we have our feet under us (even just a little bit) it would be nice if we could update this thing more.

This is a picture of us at the End of the Road festival. It was like a magical wonderland, set in the English woods, with white pianos in the middle of light/art installations in the forest. It was an amazing festival, put on by some amazing people. EVERYONE wore these boots because it was muddy everywhere, so it was this nice equalization thing; everyone looked ridiculous and cute. "Wellies" they call them. Wellingtons. Met Kurt from Lamp Chop through our best friend Nathan Beazer (who some of you might have met in Eau Claire when he came to visit from London) , and have to say the dude is simply, a great man.

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Right now, a few of us are sitting in the green room at our venue in Denmark. We slept as our driver, Terry, drove through the night from Amsterdam, where we hung out with the Bowerbirds, again. Its a second floor room, with a gaping window looking down on a river bank scattered with pockets of punk kids smoking cigarettes and juggling bowling pins and laughing and smiling. Its calming.

There can be days that are lonely out here. Even when you are constantly amongst the safest, best people you could be.

But, today feels peaceful. Going home soon.

Photo by Andrew Chapman. (andrewchapman.co.uk)