LOS Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Denver, Detroit . . . Tavistock!
Home grown West Devon band Equation will be fighting the jet lag when they close the Tavistock and Dartmoor Festival with a concert at the Wharf, Tavistock on Sunday evening.
This top pop-folk group will only have stepped off a plane a few days before after a punishing three month tour of the USA.
During their stateside stay they have played to many thousands of people — performed more than 50 gigs and done countless radio programmes plugging their second album 'The Lucky Few'.
'It will be great to round off the tour with a gig in our home town — and at the Wharf where we first played a concert that led to us being signed originally by Warner,' said guitarist and song-writer Sean Lakeman.
'The crowds have been fantastic and we have met and played with some superb musicians,' added songwriter Seth Lakeman.
'One thrill was jamming with some of America's top bluegrass musicians at the Californian Strawberry Festival up a 5,000ft mountain in the Yosemite National Park.
'We played to several thousand people on the main stage. Then, at night we'd be playing just for the fun of it, into the early hours, on porches of the log cabins in which we were staying. You had to lock your cabin door against the black bears that come looking for food!
This is the band's fourth American tour.