“Last night I played at Stattbahnhof Schweinfurt with my friend Bianca De Leon from Austin.
But let me tell you, the woman left the north of the Netherlands on a train at 8.30 on Thursday morning. The train was stopped and held up near Göttingen for two hours because of a police operation nearby. She was late to Würzburg and aboard a train to Schweinfurt that had to wait a half hour because train traffic was halted in order to detonate some old bombs that had been found – the way I understand it – near some train tracks. She changed trains to be able to get off directly at Stattbahnhof around 8.45 pm. Straight off the train after more than twelve hours onto the beer garden stage, no stage clothes, no soundcheck, no food, no nothing.
And I swear to you, she brung it. Big time.
Sometimes I get cocky and think I got some songs but she delivered one perfect line after another. “Let’s put the dirty back in dancing”, “I sang Patsy Cline the night Noriega fell” (isn’t that mindblowing?) and her opus magnum “The Long Slow Decline Of Carmelita”.
Bianca is at Café Tasso in Berlin tonight and has a house concert there on Sunday. Do check her out, it’s so worth it!”