It’s our last day in Boston. This time tomorrow, we’ll be in Canada where the North American tour starts on Friday in Toronto. It’s a 7am flight tomorrow morning (up at 4).

Maria Snow Pledged in fantastical style, this week. We first met Maria at The Yak Bar in 2005. In much the same way as Deano (Pledger Of The Week, this week), Maria was a regular at our Sunday residency (we played there every week for a year). In fact, I do remember sitting at the bar with Maria on plenty of other occasions at ‘The Yak’ in Abbotsford (Melbourne, Australia).

Now we see her whenever we’re in Tamworth – she moved there to soak up the country music vibe in Australia’s Country Music Capital. Actually, last time we spoke about it, Maria’s not a great fan of country music, but she’s continually inspired by the customer service ethos in said country town. Actually, that’s not true either. Perhaps, one might say, Maria is bringing some semblance of customer service to the town – and the process hasn’t been particularly smooth sailing. But she’s fighting the good fight…

Because Maria Pledged for it – we’ll be singing happy birthday to her, live on stage – and on video. She’ll have her very own personal-birthday-song video up on this site (and YouTube), sung by us – and sung from the heart. She’ll also receive a personalised virtual tour of the tour van while we’re on the road between shows. How cool is that?

A huge thanks and big hugs, Maria (we’ll be talkin’ with ya soon).

Checkya tomorrow from Canada,
Fires out.

PS: I love this pic of Maria – had to put it up.