[Previous dispatches from M83’s Morgan Kibby here.] Chapter 15: Goodbye tour, hello vacation! Lotje and I are headed for Madrid one day early to have a little pre-birthday celebration (the big 26 for Lotje). We packed small backpacks, ditched the boys and hopped a plane this morning.” Lotje is planning to meet two girlfriends to […]
[M83’s keyboardist-singer Morgan Kibby continues her tour diary. Previous installments here.] Chapter 12: Somebody stick a fork in me: I’m done. I’m moving to Amsterdam. What a brilliant city! Even the red light district is festooned with swans and canals and bicycles” We covered it all. The amusement square where I bought an obscene amount […]
[M83’s keyboardist-singer Morgan Kibby continues her tour diary. Previous installments here.] Chapter 11: Shaving day. Yep, everyone’s shaving. PM is giving Anthony a haircut and I’m waxing. We were all getting a little hairy.” Seemed like a good day to do it, since we were fed a big fat slice of humble pie this afternoon. […]
[Keyboardist-singer Morgan Kibby continues her M83 tour diary. Read previous installments here.] Chapter 9: Observations from Scandinavia: Always do laundry at the venue before you get drunk. Always load the bus when extremely drunk. Scandinavians love high-tops. Seriously. Haviana flip-flops save me from venue shower rot. Fall has never looked so beautiful. Green and gold […]
Chapter 8: I am in the armpit of the hippie universe right now: Christiania, Copenhagen. Please hear me out before the touchy outcries begin: My father was a hard-core hippie. Sculptor/musician by day, waiter by night, king of the cross-country hitchhike, anti-war activist and frequent mountain man; I was brought up by someone who, to […]
Chapter 7: Sometimes, touring is a test of how you handle being disoriented. In the port city of Arhus, Denmark, we had to spend the night in the bus, and I woke groggy and confused at 2 p.m. in a tangle of socks, jeans, sweatshirts, a hood and fingerless mittens: I was determined to touch […]
[A final note from Paris before the M83 tour begins …] Chapter 5: My friend Emilie is a fantastic photographer. She shoots mainly as a hobby, but personally I think her stuff is just too good to sit in boxes underneath her bed. (She has more on Flickr here.) Last time I was in Paris, […]
[Here’s the third installment of M83 singer-keyboardist Morgan Kibby’s tour diary. Previously: Intro, Chapter 1, Chapter 2.] Chapter 3: I don’t readily buy into clichés or stereotypes.” But I’m also not stubborn enough to insist they appear out of thin air, and though I hate to admit it, I embodied one of my favorites today: […]
