About Bee
My blog follows the escapades of me, Bee, rock 'n' roll adventurer and swag girl as I travel the world assisting Tour Managers and selling merchandise for various bands. My fellow travellers include the band, the crew, the fans and various industry types. It lifts the lid on the myths surrounding the music biz and gives you a glimpse into that magical, filthy world. This makes what the kids in Skins get up to merely aspirational! My crew is older, but comically we're not yet wiser, and all of Europe is our playground.
Are We a Bus?
Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow, Part II We decide to carry on walking towards the salacious red light district — naturally. I like walking around and looking curiously at the girls in the windows. I think it must be much better…
Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow Poisoned dreams, Distorted dreams, Mushroom dreams. Don’t have to tell you it feels better than, Floating free, walk upon the sand Got to give you things much better My mushroom’s green and brown forever. Strawberry Alarm…
Down in a Rabbit Hole, Part II The foyer at this venue opens up to the public an hour before the auditorium doors officially open, so I need to be there selling and guarding my stock from half-six. I presume…
Down in a rabbit hole I heard you fell into a rabbit hole Covered yourself up in snow Baby, tell me where’d you go For days and days Did they make you stay up all night? Did they paint your…
Now, I’m sure that there are rules about getting it on when everyone else is head-to-toe, bunk-to-bunk, above, and beneath you. But that minor detail doesn’t seem to enter my head or his. We mess around for a little bit…
‘Round the Bend When you’re traveling about with a load of sometimes-strangers, people often find it necessary to go as far as marking up bunks with their names. If you don’t leave belongings in there to indicate that it’s taken,…
The Merry Go Round How merrily we go round How merrily we go round The merry-go-round Babyshambles In the morning, I wake up to my alarm at nine o’ clock feeling slightly worse for wear. I stayed up for quite…
A Line of Charlie Backline techs are, like I said, my cup of tea. These fellas are quite often younger (or young enough, anyway. Don’t judge.) and a lot of fun. They don’t have to get up the earliest, they…
An alternative version of the tour manager role is the Production Manager. These are the guys (or gals, to be politically correct, although they’re still in the minority), who really hold the whole tour together once it’s been advanced and…
Yes the stereotypes There must be more to life All your life you’re dreaming And then you Stop dreaming Time to time you know You’re going on another bender Blur This is probably a good time to introduce the crew…