Day 3: First Show - New York, NY

Nau maiYesterday was a big day. We played a one hour set at the Gov Ball festival and spent about six or seven hours either side of that getting ready and unready. It was a stunner of a morning in the borough of Queens, New York City. From my room I could see Flushing Creek and Flushing Bay, the Whitestone Expressway, and the great clock tower of U-Haul Moving & Storage, Flushing. It looks like Jon could see largely the same view from his room as he starts his day with a bag of chips. I ordered breakfast from the menu at Hotel Indigo, Flushing, a meal called “Morning Sunrise”, if I remember correctly. It was a yoghurt parfait with banana, blueberries, a frozen raspberry, dried cherries, and granola. On the side was a leafy salad with toasted walnuts and tomato. Late in the morning we were picked up from our hotel and driven to the festival at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. We arrived at the grounds and were met with the first piece of a layered security perimeter, this one a checkpoint…