Lost in the Trees Tour Diary: Intimacy, food and the morning after
[Editor's Note: Chapel Hill band Lost in the Trees headed north last week for a short tour that took them to the annual college music festival, CMJ, in New York and to a backyard photo studio in Freehold, N.J. While on the road, the band chronicled its adventures and misadventures for this five-part tour journey. Lost in the Trees plays tonight at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Gerrard Hall at 8 p.m. The $5 show is free for UNC students.]
Lost in the Trees, backstage in Boston
Lost in the Trees No. 4: New York to Boston
We usually all sleep in the same place, but New York is always the place where we separate and scatter: No one has space for 11 people to sleep in New York, and everyone has different friends there that they’d like to see. So we re-assembled at The Living Room, the venue we played the night before. Compared to the bustling carnival of the previous night (Pianos and Cake Shop, two other CMJ venues, are right next door), Ludlow St. was dead quiet—really nice, but also eerie, since our introduction to the place was so chaotic and loud. We shared stories of how our nights went: Martin and Drew had a long, rainy journey to Brooklyn at 3 in the morning; Will, Ari and Gini all stayed in a tiny dormitory at The New School. Continue reading »
