Our medieval tale started quite a few weeks back, on a Saturday morning in the Queen Street Mall. We were playing at centre stage as part of Brisbane’s Fete de la Musique, a brilliant day of multicultural music all around Brisbane city. We had a fantastic time and were happy to see a few familiar faces in the crowd, as well as lots of unfamiliar ones (some who even bought CDs!). We were un-phased by the photographers and film crews... until we learnt we were being shown on a big screen somewhere in France, at their own Fete de la Musique. Bonjour to any new French Sunas fans :)
Ok, moving on to our first medieval experience. The costume shop. What a great place! We tried on just about everything slightly medieval in sight, and are please to report that the Romeos found their Juliets.
From here we piled back into Mannie’s van for a trek up to Brendale, and Megan’s birthday bash. Now there are many stories to be told here... let's just say Sair and Paul were very inebriated (and quite vocal about it!). We handed over the set list to the birthday girl, made friends with the ‘balcony people’, who even ended up joining the party, heard some interesting MC work from our very own Sarah (ask Mannie about that one!), and saw a spectacular display of Paul’s strength (dropping an entire carton of Mercury cider – how very very dare you Paul!).
So that was a typical Saturday in the life of Sunas... then one week later...
The Medieval Faire. Once again jumping into the Mannie-mobile, we headed North, this time to Caboolture. What a sight! The room was gorgeous, with long tables, banners and lots of velvet, and the high table up on the stage. Of course we figured that’s where we should be, so we wandered up (in our jeans and t-shirts) and found some tapestry-clad people to direct us to our performing area. All jokes aside, everyone looked fantastic and we met some really great people that night. And Mannie discovered that Spatchcock does taste like chicken!
We were also lucky enough to have the ever lovely Helen travelling with us, so we have her to thank for many of the pics through the night (which hopefully Paul will be putting up soon!).
Well that's the end of ye olde blog for me, and back to the real world for another week (until Childers Festival of Cultures this weekend...)
Bye for now
Listening to: 'Town of Athlone' by Karan Casey
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