Fish 2017 tour full dates

Arcade · 25 January 2017 17:35

Just been reading about the O2 Ritz. Apparently, it has a ‘very springy dance floor’. - Perfect for moshing? We can but hope, but how good would it be if it was this full?!

brother95 · 25 January 2017 19:20

great venue !!!

ulrichs · 25 January 2017 19:49

Any chance for you Anthony, to see you there?

brother95 · 25 January 2017 20:21

it could be

brother95 · 26 January 2017 18:12

So here is the day where we have to start the countdown
We’re going to finally meet each others guys (and girls)…and I’m proving it

Can’t wait

ulrichs · 26 January 2017 18:33

SteveE1966 · 26 January 2017 19:07

Wish i could commit to joining you all but it’s my sons 30th birthday on the 13th, so every chance there’ll be something party related going on that weekend.

Andyboy67 · 26 January 2017 19:49

It will be great to finally meet you Anthony

Zazabi · 26 January 2017 20:24

Brilliant. A meet up like we’ve been wishing for for ages.

Shame you can’t join the crowd Steve

ulrichs · 26 January 2017 20:59

Manchester, 9th December, Fish @O2 Ritz

Andyboy67
Arcade
brother95
ClutcherofStraw
Little Starfish
ulrichs (Silke will be with me)

More will welcome …

ClutcherofStraw · 26 January 2017 22:44

316 sleeps to go.

Arcade · 26 January 2017 22:58

Lawrie, you gonna do that for the rest of the year?!

ClutcherofStraw · 26 January 2017 23:00

Sleep? Of course otherwise I`ll be knackered come the day.

Arcade · 27 January 2017 04:39

Debs will be with me, unless there’s a change of plan!

ulrichs · 27 January 2017 13:28

Manchester, 9th December, Fish @O2 Ritz

Andyboy67
Arcade (together with Debs)
brother95
ClutcherofStraw
Little Starfish
ulrichs (Silke will be with me)

More will be welcome …

Zazabi · 1 February 2017 10:40

Have people seen Fish’ post on facebook regarding his shoulder surgery? I hope it won’t compromise his UK tour.

ClutcherofStraw · 1 February 2017 10:57

What will be will be. Lets wait and see.

ulrichs · 1 February 2017 11:04

Fingers crossed!

Arcade · 1 February 2017 12:00

So what did he say?!

ulrichs · 1 February 2017 12:10

Fish on FB:

Three and a half hours at Edinburgh Royal infirmary today being assessed for my forthcoming shoulder operation.Endless questionnaires, blood tests and all the pre op trimmings before a meeting with the surgeon. I’m scheduled in for the 13th which thankfully is a Monday but the bad news kept on coming today.

I needed the calm of the waiting room and a few pints of water from the cooler to get my blood pressure down and hydrate after a couple of whiskies too many the night before when a shit grenade went off. The pin was pulled by some usual suspects from afar but Simone and I took the impact as intended targets. It rocked us but we’re too strong to let it get us down. Regular incoming we’ve come to expect over the years we have been together and when all is ranted and done it isn’t really our problem. I had other more important things to deal with next day.

My blood pressure was normal by the time they ran the tests and I met the surgeon feeling relatively calm about the forthcoming operation. This was the first time I was to be fully briefed about the
problem which I had been told a few months ago was a torn tendon. The scans on the screen made little sense to me but the diagnosis that followed certainly did. It wasn’t what I expected.

The “torn” tendon is actually completely detached from my arm and required bone shaving, pins and pulled over to be “glued” to the new anchors. That was one of the tears. There’s another on the other side of the joint and a possible tear on the left shoulder as well. I listened in soft shock.The word “pain” kept recurring.

It turns out my condition is worse than was originally diagnosed and the 6 month recovery could actually be 12 with no promises and a diary of excruciating physio appointments.I could opt out and put up with this existing painful condition with no power in my right shoulder for the rest of my life but I’ve decided to go for it and take the consequences, bite the bullet and accept the advice of my surgeon who is one of the finest in her field and who won me over by saying I am young enough to have a great chance of a full recovery.

I’m nervous and to be absolutely honest a bit scared at what I have elected to sign on for. This ain’t gonna be easy by any stretch of the imagination and it’s going to bite me hard and long.

In the last month I ,together with Simone have stopped smoking and we have been attending a gym in Edinburgh with a personal trainer twice a week. Mike Heatley has done wonders to help strengthen my back and develop my core muscles again. It’s the first time I’ve been at a gym for years and I’m so feeling the benefits. I’ve been using this window between operations to prepare myself and in all honesty will miss the sessions as I move into the initial healing period with my rotator cuff problem.God only knows how this will affect the writing of the album. I’m hopeful I’ll get a chance to alow the cogs to turn and pontificate on ideas and directions. I’m going to miss my right hand and my keyboard musings are most definitely going to take a lot longer and be a lot more frustrating.

I’m going to miss being involved in the garden for which Simone and I ordered all the seed and gubbings for the other day. The first 4 weeks will be hellish, sleeping upright a nightmare for which I’m going to need a lot of chemical help. It can be done and I’ll be all the better for it in the long run.

The shit grenades I am sure will continue to be thrown and I know I’ll take quite a few sniper attacks in the coming months. Bring it on! I have a strong loving lady with me by my side without whom I most definitely couldn’t deal with all this and the two of us are going to get through this together and in style. As for the doubters, the underminers, the “unlikers” and the cynics- this circle is unbroken.
We are family here. And we are strong.

We have to wait …