I bet he had an even better time in Boston when they, as he pointed out in an interview, filled him full of opiates at he hospital to reduce his acute fever. Now, I'm no doctor but I find that a strange course of treatment for fever.
In any event, I think BG is probably on the right track. One would think he would certainly play New York and Chicago at some point in the not-too-distant future - both big cities that never got visited for WPINOYB. Although, if you think about it, he really doesn't have anything to promote, does he? Not that that has stopped him in the past. I'm sure he wants to play the new songs for as many people as he can.
Two weeks ago I was really thinking of going over to London and Dublin (and also seeing Half Man Half Biscuit in Manchester). While it was a risk then, I think it's even more of a risk now with the cancer word being bandied about. So I think I'll probably just wait it out for his next stateside jaunt. Whenever that might be.