Right now I’m sitting in Eddie the sexy Tarago (sorry Mannie) munching on my favourite snack in the world, Herb & Spice Kettle chips. We’re listening to an interesting playlist consisting of Kavisha Mazella, TéTé, Paul Simon, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Dire Straits (1970’s stuff), the Poachers, Mark Knopfler and Martha Tilston. I have two of my best friends flanking me (and missing the other one terribly) and we’re on our way to Canberra in great spirits.
Last night we played at the Bald Faced Stag Hotel. In order to gain the best possible audience we did an enormous gig SOS mail out via Facebook, MySpace, emails and texts to all and sundry as well as to our wonderful folk contacts. Given the fact that we’ve never played Sydney before and we only had 24 hours notice before we played, we weren’t expecting miracles, but were secretly hoping to play to a fairly large audience.
We played to nine people :)
And I am not complaining! To Paul’s friend David, my cousin Aaron, his friend Daniel, my Uncle Mick, Aunty Alison, and Bridgey’s friends Ian, Joanne, Don & Diane – thank you for coming and supporting us!
We would also like to send out a huge thank you to everyone we contacted about this gig. Understandably most people already had made plans, but your well wishes for a great gig meant the world to us. And to everyone who spread the last minute word to friends, we are so grateful. At the end of the day whether we played to nine people or nine hundred, the support we have received is overwhelming.
The actual gig itself went really well. It was our first official tour gig without our beloved Mannie, and he was definitely missed. The Bald Faced Stag is a great venue, and we played a solid performance. Here we send out another thanks to our sound guy Drew. We felt bad that he broke a date with his girlfriend to do our gig, but he perked up after massive geek-out moment with Paul when they both discovered they owned iPhones (what is it about men with gadgets?)!
Tonight we’re playing at the Folkus which is held at the Serbian Club in Canberra. My voice has held up pretty well despite the fact that it’s still rough, so here’s hoping it will be clear for tonight. Paul & Bridgey keep asking if I’m upset with them because I haven’t been talking much!
One other thing that I’m really surprised about is how well we all get on. The three of us haven’t really had a break from each other for the past two weeks, and I imagined we would have our moments, but really all we’ve done is laugh and take the piss even more. This pleases me :)
So now the hills of luscious green are rolled out before us and we’re cruising toward Canberra. Onwards and upwards!
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