rave 25
well, went to brisbane for a jam packed, fun filled weekend.
apart from learning about the new australian quality training
framework (i really likes the new reporting on employability
skills, by the way) i managed to squeeze in a few shows.
so, on no sleep at all i played with kahibaloo at lock n load. was
a nice cosy darwin reunion. kahibaloo rocked it. minimal sample
heavy hiphop, nice. i played ok.
the next night i met up with chrissie of kissy trouble company
and found where we were playing. it was above a heavy metal
goth kinda club in brisbane city. i played fine, was a small
crowd. the band after was a heavy metal band. they had a guitar
stack bigger that me. im six foot five by the way…i nearly died
when the guy was just soundchecking the hi hats, when i band
started it was at least 120db, at least. got out of there and
braved it amongst the racist psychos out to get pissed in the
city. finally made it home via everywhere chrissies friend went!
had a few hours of record shopping at rocking horse (yay!), got
some woob woob woob gold. check out aaron spectre, warlock
and si begg.
saturdays gig was an under the house affair.
nice crowd, very attentive. six acts and not a word said during
any song the whole night. was ace. i played really well, was very
happy. discovered some other amazing bands. lets not(but say
we did) and yeow woew both were amazing. miss genevieve
graves was in form as always. ate some badly cooked brownies
with a hacksaw or something. made it home safely
got up, swapped samples and stuff with james from kahibaloo,
then got on the plane. an unannounced stopover in gove due to
one broken aeroplane meant i got to see my family and play
several hours of hacky sack to pass the time.
all in all, a nice adventure!