Hey, boring internet. We have a show on Saturday. Halloween, so get scary!
Thanks heaps to Darren, Leigh, Anne, Sarah, Hannah, Tom, Lou, Tutts, Cam, Katie, Greg and all others who accommodated us in Sydney and Brisbane, tolerated our middle-of-the-night spider hunts, witnessed police brutality with us and so much more!
We played at Oxford Art Factory in Sydney last night. It was okay. The security wouldn’t let people in so not many got to see us play. Best things about the night were Megastick Fanfare and Annehelena’s 20th birthday.
Today, we’re in Brisbane, getting ready to play at the Valley Fiesta tonight. We have spent most of the day freaking out in a mad hurry, toasting in the sun, designing posters and writing stuff and busting deadlines. A bit stressful. Preparing for our single launch next week, you see. Saturday - Halloween - night in Melbourne.
Anyway. There’s no daylight savings here. I’m typing on my phone. Very sleepy. Missing home. More later, I say.
Brisbane.
WTF
We have made some special friends and brand new BIGGEST FANS EVER on our tour so far. Meet them!
The Tasmanians:
(Trav) Hiphop from Queensland:
Meeting people can be amazing and incredible. In extreme circumstances, it can make you feel like you have pink fluffy fairy wings on your back.
He isn’t called Flying Diamonds for nothing. Sushi!
In far more important news, we play at the Jade Monkey in Adelaide this Thursday night with Mixylodian (duh) and Zeal… and on Friday night, in our hometown, at Roxanne Parlour - the last show of our album launch tour! We’re joined by Mixylodian (DUH), Parking Lot Experiments, Peter Escott (Tasmaniana) and Slo-Mo Speedboat (Brain Cobra + Denim Owl’s house). Please come. Save our Ramps!
WOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH shit.
We’re now halfway through our Midnight Believer album launch tour. We are also all the way through the available funds to undertake it. Yay! Still, we’re having super ultra fun times. How about that Brisbane eh? We spent 3 days being squired about town by one Nick Smethurst, he of the most excellent hair and pedal collect (he doesn’t actually collect hair.) Still yet to find a decent meal in Brisbane and while The Forest may provide edible sustenance, it does not in my book constitute well executed food. What can I say, Vegans, MEH.
Top Floor on the other hand does constitute a well executed venue thingy; BYO booze, reasonable PA for room size, big backstage room and nice people running the joint. Though why we had to mop the floor at the end of the night I do not know, we did pay for the place after all. Not that I mopped or cleaned up in any way, unless you count cleaning up all remaining booze and screaming petulantly for McDonalds CheeeezzzzBURGERS on the way home. Which I didn’t get, but which Brain Cobra and Black Wasp DID!
Lion Island are great as are Big Strong Brute, though their name is very misleading.
Mixylodian seemed to be the most well received of the two sets this evening, people were up and dancing straight away and Mike was having a really great time, what with his shirt off and cape a-flowing.
The Ramps set was very fun, with equipment flying about the stage in all directions, old songs being thrown into the set without warning and probably the best mid song bump and grind with random audience members yet.(thanks Moonie!)
All in all a very fun weekend, though my enduring image of Brisbane for a while is going to be this:
So it’s on to Hobart and Belgrave next weekend. Yow!
Aleks and the Ramps are shocked to learn of the sudden death of Michael Jackson, King of Pop. He was a true musical father to us - ‘Boy Meets Ghost’ is loosely based on ‘Billy Jean’, and our entire first record was inspired by Jackson’s hit ‘They Don’t Really Care About Us’.
To mark this sad day, we decided to leave Black Wasp at home in Melbourne while the rest of us flew to Brisbane to hang out with Farrah Fawcett.
Vale.
Brain Cobra and yours truly both got magically sick during/after Newcastle and Sydney shows. I’m presently under quarantine. I sure do hope they let me out of jail before our Brisbane show!
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