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[superval99]

Jbaent,  I am older than MK and just attending around 5 concerts in a row is pretty tiring for me,  so I really don't know how MK manages the touring and performing every day or so - moving from one town or country to another to different hotels and all that entails.  I know he enjoys it,  he always says he does!

[Jules]

Jbaent,  I am older than MK and just attending around 5 concerts in a row is pretty tiring for me,  so I really don't know how MK manages the touring and performing every day or so - moving from one town or country to another to different hotels and all that entails.  I know he enjoys it,  he always says he does!

With a whole team doing almost everything for him.

Travelling from one town to another, taking planes almost every day, playing two and a half hours per night. Yes, it's tiring, but still is just four or five months and then the rest of the year you are in home (And think that MK hasn't toured in three years...), after doing what you love for four or five months with, as they say, their own magic carpet.

Still easier and pleaser that waking up every morning during almost 320 days per year. And that, after our Spanish government changes about retiring, we should do that until we are 75 years old in Spain.

That's an effort. No chance to being lazy

[Jules]

Jbaent,  I am older than MK and just attending around 5 concerts in a row is pretty tiring for me,  so I really don't know how MK manages the touring and performing every day or so - moving from one town or country to another to different hotels and all that entails.  I know he enjoys it,  he always says he does!

And also, when we travel to attend one, two or three shows in a row, we have to do ourselves all the preparations and usually carrying all out tiredness from the day by day thing...

Last tour, I attended the Dublin concert arriving to the venue directly from the airport in a flight that I catched just four or five hours after working, with very little sleep and a stressful day at work.

I can't compare at all the tiredness it represents to me with the one that would had MK... Or the tiredness all of you carry on when attending one, two or three concerts...

And if course we all do it for fun! 

[superval99]

Jbaent,  I am older than MK and just attending around 5 concerts in a row is pretty tiring for me,  so I really don't know how MK manages the touring and performing every day or so - moving from one town or country to another to different hotels and all that entails.  I know he enjoys it,  he always says he does!

With a whole team doing almost everything for him.

Travelling from one town to another, taking planes almost every day, playing two and a half hours per night. Yes, it's tiring, but still is just four or five months and then the rest of the year you are in home (And think that MK hasn't toured in three years...), after doing what you love for four or five months with, as they say, their own magic carpet.

Still easier and pleaser that waking up every morning during almost 320 days per year. And that, after our Spanish government changes about retiring, we should do that until we are 75 years old in Spain.

That's an effort. No chance to being lazy

Yes, I do understand what you are saying - in fact, I have a son who does the same as you - long, unsocial hours, not enough time off to enjoy family life, etc, but Mark is nearly 70 and, believe me, that makes a lot of difference.   

[Eddie Fox]

Lol I wish everyone would read through every comment before jumping to conclusions. Mark has called himself lazy several times and that's what I wrote.

[Pottel]

Jbaent,  I am older than MK and just attending around 5 concerts in a row is pretty tiring for me,  so I really don't know how MK manages the touring and performing every day or so - moving from one town or country to another to different hotels and all that entails.  I know he enjoys it,  he always says he does!

SuperVal, have to agree with jbaent here, absolutely no comparison
The man flies a private jet most of the time, stays in absolute top of the line hotels, is driven everywhere, and most importantly, no waiting, ANYWHERE
Waiting is the worst part of it all imho


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[Jules]

Jbaent,  I am older than MK and just attending around 5 concerts in a row is pretty tiring for me,  so I really don't know how MK manages the touring and performing every day or so - moving from one town or country to another to different hotels and all that entails.  I know he enjoys it,  he always says he does!

With a whole team doing almost everything for him.

Travelling from one town to another, taking planes almost every day, playing two and a half hours per night. Yes, it's tiring, but still is just four or five months and then the rest of the year you are in home (And think that MK hasn't toured in three years...), after doing what you love for four or five months with, as they say, their own magic carpet.

Still easier and pleaser that waking up every morning during almost 320 days per year. And that, after our Spanish government changes about retiring, we should do that until we are 75 years old in Spain.

That's an effort. No chance to being lazy

Yes, I do understand what you are saying - in fact, I have a son who does the same as you - long, unsocial hours, not enough time off to enjoy family life, etc, but Mark is nearly 70 and, believe me, that makes a lot of difference.   

Yes, I'll remember this conversation when I'm 70 and still waking up every morning at six in the morning and work all week during 320 days per year. LOL

[superval99]

Jbaent,  I am older than MK and just attending around 5 concerts in a row is pretty tiring for me,  so I really don't know how MK manages the touring and performing every day or so - moving from one town or country to another to different hotels and all that entails.  I know he enjoys it,  he always says he does!

And also, when we travel to attend one, two or three shows in a row, we have to do ourselves all the preparations and usually carrying all out tiredness from the day by day thing...

Last tour, I attended the Dublin concert arriving to the venue directly from the airport in a flight that I catched just four or five hours after working, with very little sleep and a stressful day at work.

I can't compare at all the tiredness it represents to me with the one that would had MK... Or the tiredness all of you carry on when attending one, two or three concerts...

And if course we all do it for fun! 

Yes, it's tiring, but very enjoyable and, all being well, I will be there with my husband next time and we will have a great time.

I hope I will meet you next time, Jbaent!   

[Jules]

I hope so Val!

I saw you in one of the last tour concerts in the distance, but hadn't time to go and see hello. Hope next time I find my own magical carpet lol

[Jules]

Jbaent,  I am older than MK and just attending around 5 concerts in a row is pretty tiring for me,  so I really don't know how MK manages the touring and performing every day or so - moving from one town or country to another to different hotels and all that entails.  I know he enjoys it,  he always says he does!

SuperVal, have to agree with jbaent here, absolutely no comparison
The man flies a private jet most of the time, stays in absolute top of the line hotels, is driven everywhere, and most importantly, no waiting, ANYWHERE
Waiting is the worst part of it all imho


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I worked in a hotel reception for more than six years. Believe me, most of the time you don't even see the musicians, there is always someone doing everything for them. EVERYTHING.

[superval99]

Lol I wish everyone would read through every comment before jumping to conclusions. Mark has called himself lazy several times and that's what I wrote.

Yes, I know Mark says he is lazy!   I'm just comparing how I would feel doing the same thing.   

[Eddie Fox]

"JK: But you’re said to be a huge reader.

MK: No, I am a huge lazy bones. I can just as easily be found horizontal on the sofa as reading. I can pretend to be an intellectual —- I’ve usually got some book on the go. But I always feel behind, I’m always trying to catch up. I’m a victim, like others, of the laptop."

"Is there a pattern to your creative process when you write a song?

No, there's no formula, no law. I'm lazy [laughs]. One song might come quickly, and another might take hundreds of hours over a long period of time with varying amounts of inebriation."

Just a couple of examples. Let's read carefully, guys 

[Robson]

But a moment. Mark can afford all the comforts associated with touring. We are 21st century.

[superval99]

Jbaent,  I am older than MK and just attending around 5 concerts in a row is pretty tiring for me,  so I really don't know how MK manages the touring and performing every day or so - moving from one town or country to another to different hotels and all that entails.  I know he enjoys it,  he always says he does!

SuperVal, have to agree with jbaent here, absolutely no comparison
The man flies a private jet most of the time, stays in absolute top of the line hotels, is driven everywhere, and most importantly, no waiting, ANYWHERE
Waiting is the worst part of it all imho


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I'm sure it's true what you say, Pottel, but I'm afraid I will never have the pleasure to test Mark's time on tour, thank goodness!   

I agree about the waiting btw - it's very tiring!

[superval99]

"JK: But you’re said to be a huge reader.

MK: No, I am a huge lazy bones. I can just as easily be found horizontal on the sofa as reading. I can pretend to be an intellectual —- I’ve usually got some book on the go. But I always feel behind, I’m always trying to catch up. I’m a victim, like others, of the laptop."

"Is there a pattern to your creative process when you write a song?

No, there's no formula, no law. I'm lazy [laughs]. One song might come quickly, and another might take hundreds of hours over a long period of time with varying amounts of inebriation."

Just a couple of examples. Let's read carefully, guys 

Yes, Eddie, I have read lots of stuff like that!