henry, i'm horrified to hear this.

i feel with my own experience with spiro, chrissi and i were very, very lucky.

when we went over, i had some insane gastro virus that left me so very ill that we had to use a hire car rather than the artist bus (the gig was 3 hours into the outback but i couldnt travel for more than 20 minutes without throwing up - gastro interitus or something they said it was).

Fortunately after the gig, having the car gave us the independance we needed to try to sort it out when spiro mysteriously vanished. Instead of being shipped back to the hotel tired after the gig, able to do nothing when we'd woken, i was able to rest in the car for 2 hours and then make such a nuisance of myself to the point that we actually found Spiro. We ended up in the dodgiest caravan you can ever imagine with serious security and a bloke who kept his money in a pirate-style chest. Sure I got paid, but it was all quite bizarre I can tell you.

Anyway, that's why i contacted you h once i'd seen you were playing for them. i just wanted to say 'b careful'. Perhaps i should have explained myself better and you might not have decided to go.

Hope you sort this out bro.

Mark