About 4 days 3 hours.

It all kicks off on Sunday when I will be flying to Vancouver to begin the North American leg of the tour. The schedule, which seems to be changing more or less on a daily bases currently looks like this:

A Sun 04 Apr Arrive in Vancouver

B Fri 09 Apr Seattle WA

C Sun 11 Apr Portland OR

D Wed 14 Apr San Francisco CA

E Thu 15 Apr Berkley CA

F Fri 16 Apr San Francisco CA

G Sun 18 Apr Indio CA - (at Coachella festival woop!)

H Mon 19 Apr Los Angeles CA (this is some kind of radio session, with great lighting...)

I Tue 20 Apr Springdale Utah UT - stop off on rout

J Wed 21 Apr Denver CO

K Thu 22 Apr Lawrence. KS

L Fri 23 Apr Minneapolis MN

M Mon 26 Apr Milwaukee WI

N Tue 27 Apr Chicago IL

O Thu 29 Apr Toronto ONT

P Sun 02 May Montreal QC

Q Mon 03 May Philadelphia PA

R Tue 04 May Boston MA

S Fri 07 May New York NY

Tue 11 May Arrive in London

See figure 1.

Figure 1.

According to Google Maps the total distance of the trip by road is 9680 km which is 8.8 times the length of Great Britain and would take about 4 days, 3 hours (99 hours) to drive in one hit. This is the same amount of time it takes to complete and unlock everything in Final Fantasy and Grand Theft Auto, apparently.

Home

This blog starts in Greenwich, in my flat where I have spent the entire day harbouring a monumental hangover which has put me firmly 'in the arena of the unwell'. Stay with me, I'm hopeful that it will get more exciting than this.

My hangover is a result of a party last night/this morning, which followed the first public preview of the Jónsi world tour, and marked the end of 14 days of preproduction, tech and rehearsals in London's 3 Mills Studios. For the next few months I will be on tour with Jónsi, his band and the rest of the crew relighting and operating the show.

Last nights show was fantastic. It looked and sounded great and went down a storm with the slightly peculiar, skinny audience of invited fans, friends and family, quite a lot of which were dressed as animals. The after party, or the party after the after party which was actually the party that was going by the time I finished the load out was also a lot of fun so I am now very excited about the tour.