Jeff Scott Soto has checked in with his latest blog entry, where he talks about his recent UK tour, and plans for the future. An excert is included below:

"The UK dates were great, well didn't start without drama anyway, the Glasgow show pulled out the week before we left the US, I guess they got scared that we'd pull out of the show based on the Talisman problems earlier in the year so they pulled out for us, not cool! We ended up getting a last minute replacement show in Nottingham which although was a small turn out (umm, NO time to advertise!), it also was one of those 'special' shows that only happens when the audience is intimate :) Its one of those things with my solo band, we never go through the motions at any shows, they're always treated as their own entities depending on the audience, turn out, venue, vibe, etc.,

"The 1st gig in Sheffield was great, I'd played the Corporation before with Soul SirkUS & to my delight returned with more folks in tow! The only problem that night was the lack of sleep I had before showtime. We'd flown over the day before & I was awake pretty much from the time I got up in the early morning LA time until we landed, early morning Manchester time. I passed out about 11am & sprung up at 7pm, not bad, 8 hours, only problem is I was up from then till showtime the next night! Aint jetlag a bitch? By the time we hit the stage, I was up 26 hours, by the time I got to bed, it was 32 hours! Thank God we had the next day off!

"Dudley was also a pleasant surprise with turnout & show, we were all a bit more rested & having Sheffield under our hats (it'd been a month since we played together & no rehearsal add jetlag, u never know what to expect!), the show was already a well oiled machine....well ok, a few spare nuts & bolts, but great fun as usual.

"Nottingham was night 3 & London night 4. The Islington Academy is a great live venue & the night was electric from the 1st chord. Its always worrying playing London, as is NY & LA, most big city crowds don't react like smaller suburbs but that night was on fire, both band & crowd.

"The last show of the tour was Belfast Ireland, we got in the day before to get some rest & relax a bit from the hurried travels the previous days...yea right! I was up at 4:30am, bright eyed & bushy tailed, headed downstairs to see if I could get a coffee or orange juice to find Howie & Gary had been there for hours killing time online (wifi didn't connect in their rooms). Howie & I made our way to the earliest 'whatever was open' & got a just opening McDonalds, nothing like a little taste of home, eh? We got to the venue which had recently undergone a change in ownership & the original sound system was yanked out so a temporary one was brought in as to avoid yet another cancellation...wish we weren't the guinea pigs for such undertakings! The soundcheck was a nightmare & the constant feedback during the show didn't make things any better but what better than a sauced up Irish crowd to soak in the music & help us forget the traumas of bad sound :) Great vibe & thanks to Davy Warren for glueing the whole mess together into a great finale...or so we thought"

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