Kairos Band

Today started at 5.30am for me and was tough getting up as the night before wasn’t an early night. We were taken to the airport and driven at 100mph all the way, the Portuguese drive crazy, my kind of people. Upon arrival at the airport, we got all our flight cases from the van that had been following us the whole weekend, and got ourselves checked in. We were cutting it late, so we said our goodbyes to our amazing and generous hosts.

When we fly, we are limited to what we can take, so all we can take is 4 guitars 2 pedal boards and our in ear radio rack, all in their own flight cases checked into the hull of the plane. That leaves 5 of us to carry 10 bags as carry on baggage, our own personal luggage and several merch bags which is a huge pain cos of the 100ml rule. So everything that is in our personal luggage that is over 100ml had to put inside pedal boards, guitar cases that was checked in.

Mark, our amazing sound engineer, ended up taking my personal baggage through security as I ended up carrying 2 of the merch bags. As he was going through security he got stopped and taken aside and my bag was about to get inspected. I was a little bit concerned to what the security guy would say when he saw the hair dryer and hair straighteners as Mark doesn’t really have much hair on his head!

We finally got through to the gate just as it was closing, a few minutes later and we would have missed the flight. When sitting on the plane I had a chance to reflect back on some of the highlights over the past 4 days, it was an amazing tour. We were hosted and looked after so well, totally exceeded our expectations. This has definably been the best few gigs so far since starting the band; we even did our first encore as the crowd wanted more!

A massive thank you goes out to our hosts for flying us out there and looking after us like rock stars. It was a great encouragement and gave us a bit of a boost that we might just be able to make this dream a reality.

Until next time, keep the dream alive.

Aaron