So I'm three gigs into this tour and so far two of them have been sellouts and the other one was still great.

It started out in Newport Wales, we had a great gig there, and then I went to Brosley, England, which is the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, had another great gig, and the next morning Caroline was nice enough to drive me to Liverpool, where

I could fly to the Isle of Man.

I got there, had a sold-out gig, and it was just beautiful.

Everybody treated me really nice.

That's where I'm at right now.

Last night I woke up to the sound of what sounded like somebody being murdered outside my hotel room window.

And it kind of startled me and I jumped up and I looked out the window

and there was some drunk guy standing out in the middle of the street

singing Run Around Sue at the top of his lungs.

And as you can imagine, it sounded horrible, but I managed to get back to sleep and it's beautiful to be on the Isle of Man.

Music Hi, friends, this is Otis Gibbs, and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a Dam.

I'm sitting here in a hotel room on the Isle of Man.

I'm looking out the window, and I could see across Douglas Bay and out into the Irish Sea, and it's as beautiful as you can imagine.

This is a personal journal.

This is a bit of an experiment.

I like to say right up front that I haven't the slightest idea what I'm doing, but I decided

to do it anyway.

This show was founded with the idea that there are only two people in art that matter.

There's a creative individual and the person experiencing it, and everything else is an

artificial filter.

This is a way for me to share things with you guys without any filters whatsoever.

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