Andrew Joslyn — The Monarch Review
On The Road With Dave Bazan and PSQ – Andrew Joslyn
Monday, October 20, 2014 12:22 — 0 Comments
I woke up this morning in Fort Stockton, Texas. The Super 8 Motel room’s air was cool, and smelled faintly of dried vomit (by-product of a previous tenant). Our cockroach companion still lay cooling himself in the porcelain tub, where we left him last night. I couldn’t stop thinking about him for an hour as I was falling asleep last night – between dreaming that my bedsheets were infested with a swarm of cockroaches, or that I was transforming into a 5 foot bug myself (in Kafka ‘Metamorphosis’ style), I had a hard time letting myself drift off. Despite all […]
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis World Tour vol. 8 – Andrew Joslyn
Sunday, December 8, 2013 17:19 — 0 Comments
I’m on my way home.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis World Tour vol. 7 – Andrew Joslyn
Saturday, November 23, 2013 12:25 — 0 Comments
I remember an inkling of a faint dream I had last night. One of my favorite moments from the live show of the Macklemore and Ryan Lewis tour is during the performance of the song, “Thrift Shop,” where a huge mass of metallic golden confetti is blown into the air during a climatic part before the bridge. The magical part happens right after this, though: the golden confetti floats and lingers in the air for the next 2-3 songs like golden spinning fireflies. Glittering and strangely meditative. It is always a mystical period of time during the set. This memory […]
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis World Tour vol. 6 – Andrew Joslyn
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 17:33 — 0 Comments
I woke up at 2:10 pm Central time. The sun was shining bright as I walked out of the dark tour bus – and it was so bright that the surrounding landscape was blurred as my eyes adjusted to the intense light change. Sleep was still crusted in my eyes as I slowly emerged into downtown Des Moines, Iowa. Welcome to the American Heartland. At the time all I saw was a parking lot, a collection of tour buses, a huge sign for the Wells Fargo Arena – which was all familiar to a degree… but also very disjointing. Just […]
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis World Tour vol. 5 – Andrew Joslyn
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 12:33 — 0 Comments
I write this diary from the comfort of my parents’ house on Bainbridge Island, WA, after returning on a 14-hour flight from Milan to London, back to Seattle. The last week of the European leg of the Macklemore and Ryan Lewis World Tour has become a jumbled mess of images, smells, and memories, which I’m still trying hard to process. From Oslo, to Stockholm, to Amsterdam, to Paris, to Milan… we literally cut down the length of the European continent. The whole tour was 25 shows, 200,000 fans and 12 countries. What’s even harder to process is that my life a […]
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis World Tour vol. 4 – Andrew Joslyn
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 11:24 — 0 Comments
Currently we are on the road to Oslo, Norway, and just had a whirlwind tour of Eastern Europe. After our stint in the West (France, Amsterdam, Belgium), we traveled to Warsaw, Poland, where we were embraced fully by the Polish people. For the next week, we travelled through Germany from Berlin, to Stuttgart, to Dortmund, to Frankfurt, and finally to Hamburg in the north. The Germans were all incredibly nice, and accommodating, and their countryside and cities were beautiful. Once again, we were merely flash tourists and only got glorified glimpses of every city, but it was still an incredible […]
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis World Tour vol. 3 – Andrew Joslyn
Monday, September 23, 2013 16:27 — 0 Comments
Welcome to Europe!Â
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis World Tour vol. 2 – Andrew Joslyn
Monday, September 16, 2013 11:54 — 1 Comment
I write this after our second full sold out show at the O2 Arena in Dublin, Ireland, while we are on our way to take a ferry to the UK, and then drive to Brussels. We will be traveling throughout the night until we reach Belgium, which officially wraps up our leg of the European tour in the UK. In the past couple of days we rocked out in Manchester and Glasgow, and came over to the Emerald Isle 2 days ago. Â
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