Alright drummers, let’s go over that international travel checklist one last time: suitcase, cell phone, cell phone charger, snare and cymbals (assuming there’s a backline kit being provided at your destination), sticks, in-ears, drum key, and, most importantly, your passport. What’s that? You left your passport in your suitcase, which you sent ahead with the tour manager, who’s traveling to the next gig by train—and you’ve only just realized this on the way to the airport? Well, good luck getting on that flight and making the gig. Don’t think for a minute that forgetting your passport is the kind of egregious mistake that only a rookie could make. Dave Mudie was a veteran of many international flights and hundreds of gigs with Courtney Barnett when he allowed himself to become separated from his passport as the band was about to travel from London to play a festival in France, a […]

September 2018 Issue