I write this from Goa now, where we've arrived to start a serious holiday by the sea after a very fraught week to put it mildly...arrived in Mumbai on Tuesday after a 17 hour journey, only to switch on the telly and be greeted with scenes of bombings in Srinagar, Kashmir...crashed and jet-lagged, we collapsed for a nap of several hours, then awoke to call the local promoter to arrange for dinner, and he promised to pick us up at our hotel in an hour. One and a half hours later we got a call that he wasn't coming, and that we should not leave our hotel that evening, as there had just been a series of 8 bombings on the Mumbai rail line...we switched on the set, and numb with horror watched the televised carnage which had just taken place not all that far from where we were staying...needless to say, our Mumbai gig was canceled.

More in a minute...

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Posted by Gary Lucas to Gary Lucas at 7/17/2006 10:18:00 AM