Make Sum Fukn Noiz!!!
The wee hours of Friday morning were astounded at the presence of my hunched frame cycling around Collingwood...
That blessed morn also witnessed the assembling of ALEKS AND THE RAMPS in a Navy Blue Kia Carnival, ready to storm the ACT and extend their sock collection!
T'was nice to finally overcome my 'reading in car sickness'...
I read the David Boring graphic novel cover to cover and had a quiet sob...
Janita forbode Car Cricket, so we played 'I went to Albury and I bought...
Audioslave...
Billy Bragg...
Copy Of The Communist Manifesto and so on and so forth...
Lunch in Albury was pleasant, Aleks and I staged a hot-ass comeback to win a nail-biting match of fuseball...
And after several more hours of driving...we reached Canberra.
And Holy Fuck, Canberra is so fucking clean!!!
(Aside from the human garbage in Parliament House I guess)
Anyhoo, Aleks and Shultz set off to carpet bomb some flyers whilst I watched Simon set up on stage and lifted things every now and again...
Everyone was pretty well fucked from the drive, but there was much noise, many spazzings and an abundance of interludes from the Casio Rapman...probably the best we've played!
And there...in forty minutes of holy noise, banjo mayhem and glock rock...was the first and last show of our somewhat official Canberra tour!
Go us!
Minute Major was well received save for the PA losing its shit after our first song...
And if I hadn't already proved myself to be a cunt onstage, in a sheer moment of unintentional rock and roll, I kicked the foldback off the stage...
All woes were soon forgot with sixty dollars each and a dousing in imported and nicely discounted beer...
Saturday morning was so PC I couldn't resist telling everyone...
Shultz and I rose early, drank tea, hustled to the bus stop, did some stretches and helped old ladies bring walking frames on the bus.
The Gorman House market is way rad!
I did all my Christmas shopping in one big, taxing swoop...
Shultz and I bought striking presents for our lady companions...
We felt pleased...
Manuka is not so rad!
Think of that token posh/trendy/awful suburb in yr area...
Aleks was charged $4.30 for a shitty coffee...
A new record...
I napped in the car...
We drove to Aleks' home...
I napped in Aleks' room whilst he and Janita made juice...
He had etched DEVO and SONIC YOUTH in his desk...
He also unleashed a series of juice farts that could have stripped paint from walls...
Ramps assembled for dinner at Simon's house...
Paella was delicious...
Many types of seafood...
Beer; lovely... Parents; equally as lovely...
Scattergories was played, debates were had...
Are fennel bulbs adequate phallic substitutes?
SUNDAY...House party!
Gotta love those rich kids with ever-absent parents...
Kicked out jams for hours and hours!
Not many in attendance but was good, noisy fun...
Oh, how I'd love to bore you with our journey home...
But I won't...
Aleks and the Ramps official tour t-shirts are available from St Vinnies in Collingwood! :-P
That blessed morn also witnessed the assembling of ALEKS AND THE RAMPS in a Navy Blue Kia Carnival, ready to storm the ACT and extend their sock collection!
T'was nice to finally overcome my 'reading in car sickness'...
I read the David Boring graphic novel cover to cover and had a quiet sob...
Janita forbode Car Cricket, so we played 'I went to Albury and I bought...
Audioslave...
Billy Bragg...
Copy Of The Communist Manifesto and so on and so forth...
Lunch in Albury was pleasant, Aleks and I staged a hot-ass comeback to win a nail-biting match of fuseball...
And after several more hours of driving...we reached Canberra.
And Holy Fuck, Canberra is so fucking clean!!!
(Aside from the human garbage in Parliament House I guess)
Anyhoo, Aleks and Shultz set off to carpet bomb some flyers whilst I watched Simon set up on stage and lifted things every now and again...
Everyone was pretty well fucked from the drive, but there was much noise, many spazzings and an abundance of interludes from the Casio Rapman...probably the best we've played!
And there...in forty minutes of holy noise, banjo mayhem and glock rock...was the first and last show of our somewhat official Canberra tour!
Go us!
Minute Major was well received save for the PA losing its shit after our first song...
And if I hadn't already proved myself to be a cunt onstage, in a sheer moment of unintentional rock and roll, I kicked the foldback off the stage...
All woes were soon forgot with sixty dollars each and a dousing in imported and nicely discounted beer...
Saturday morning was so PC I couldn't resist telling everyone...
Shultz and I rose early, drank tea, hustled to the bus stop, did some stretches and helped old ladies bring walking frames on the bus.
The Gorman House market is way rad!
I did all my Christmas shopping in one big, taxing swoop...
Shultz and I bought striking presents for our lady companions...
We felt pleased...
Manuka is not so rad!
Think of that token posh/trendy/awful suburb in yr area...
Aleks was charged $4.30 for a shitty coffee...
A new record...
I napped in the car...
We drove to Aleks' home...
I napped in Aleks' room whilst he and Janita made juice...
He had etched DEVO and SONIC YOUTH in his desk...
He also unleashed a series of juice farts that could have stripped paint from walls...
Ramps assembled for dinner at Simon's house...
Paella was delicious...
Many types of seafood...
Beer; lovely... Parents; equally as lovely...
Scattergories was played, debates were had...
Are fennel bulbs adequate phallic substitutes?
SUNDAY...House party!
Gotta love those rich kids with ever-absent parents...
Kicked out jams for hours and hours!
Not many in attendance but was good, noisy fun...
Oh, how I'd love to bore you with our journey home...
But I won't...
Aleks and the Ramps official tour t-shirts are available from St Vinnies in Collingwood! :-P