We played nine shows opening for The Teskey Brothers around the UK and Europe in September this year, including four in England. The tour culminated in Thursday and Friday nights in Manchester and the Saturday in Birmingham. I was particularly pumped for Manchester. I’d always romanticised the city, maybe due to my obsessive teen love of Oasis or the ubiquitous influence of that other 90s cultural spectre - David Beckham’s sixpack. I…