On the road

Last night we had our first show in the delightful border town of Albury. We turned up late (after a vast tour of the outer suburbs, trying to get out of Melbourne), met 'The Blasko' and band, who are all lovely by-the-way, and completed the world's quickest sound check. After check we had approximately 23mins to get dressed, pretty our faces, forget to tune our instruments and warm up our vocal chords. I did however make time to eat some delicious cheese in this 23mins. There wasn't even enough time for me to get nervous (unusual since I am pretty much consumed by anxiety and neuroses 24/7). Never fear. Seja made up for this. Her widened doe eyes painted a thousand words.  

We did ok. The usual first show hiccups (including a very 'girl band' moment of forgetting to plug in the guitar lead and then wondering why there was no sound). Tee hee, ooopsie! Being a theatre show I realised that there really wasn't enough light to see what I was playing on said guitar, and therefore played ALL wrong power chords in one song. Still, I managed to keep it together overall and I'm excited by the prospect of learning to play the guitar in complete darkness.  

Sarah is shorter than I thought. Big personality though. I like her. She is like a smaller, better looking version of me so ...what's not to like eh?

After a slight rider mishap, our drummer, Renae, and I decided to take matters into our own hands a find a goddam bottle shop. We got white, red and a bottle of Canadian Club's finest (just for starters) and set afoot back to indie folk central. That's when Miss Katey officially put her party pants on. 

Many wines, a few scotches and some embarassing photos later, we were safe in the hotel room. I barely remember putting my head to the pillow.

First show last night, first hangover today. I expect this is a sign of things to come. 

Off to Castlemaine now.