Tim Dowling: the band’s back on the road – and the talk turns to health

‘In a band containing so many men of a certain age, it’s hard to own an illness; someone else will have had it worse than you’

The band I’m in is on the road again, heading north. The van picks me up at lunchtime, and we reach Birmingham by 5pm. By midnight, we are loaded up again and heading for a stop partway to the next gig.

At 7am, I wake up in a Travelodge bed, half expecting, as always, to find a Muppet version of myself snoring beside me. I can’t get back to sleep, so I get up and wander off in search of outside.

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