Crazy!
Nezz and I went to see Snowman with Sab and Alice this weekend at the Rosemont... all I can say is, wow.
We decided to maverick our way through navigation by initially not bothering with any, and choosing for an alternate pathway into Perth than the one Nezz's dad handily wrote down for us to get to Yokine... and as a result of this, it being my first time driving in Perth since I'd been on my L plates, and the fact that we didn't think to get any bearings at all until we'd left the freeway and were en route to the city center meant that we did a few loops around some of Perth's most congested traffic areas during peak hour... fun!
It's times like those I'm glad that I'm able to remain level headed when I drive.
We got to Sab and Alice's place, and could see Sab through the window (so we called him, just to watch him go for the phone) and spent a bit of time hanging out with him before Alice got home. While she got changed and ready to go out, Sab taught me to play poker, which was pretty cool, and then we headed down for some HJ's before hitting the Rosemont.
I went up to Olga to say hello before the first support band played, and she was pretty stoked to see me, and twice as stoked when she saw that Nezz was with me. Joe and Andy were wandering around too, though for some reason Ross was pretty scarce all night.
I have to say that the punk band at the beginning sounding like a cat with it's ass in a blender put to a microphone that feeds back on itself with a drumbeat in the background. They were ridiculously loud, their drummer had a technique rivaled only in lack of finesse and actual skill by the guy from Maple, who doesn't know how to control his wrist joints and thus waves his arms around like a fappish gay kid with no sense of rhythm. Her technique was pretty much entirely in her forearms rather than her wrists, which meant after the first two "songs (if you can call them that)" she started to look visibily tired and the veins on her arms started popping out. Ewww.
Played some pool, which apparently the girls won by rule of quitting while ahead, while the next band was on, didn't really hear much of them but I didn't mind what I did hear... and then finally they came on, and they've definitely improved since the first time we saw them here in Collie. They're still just as energetic, and the sounds they're able to create are even crazier than last time - with some parts just sounding pure... animal? tribal? it's really hard to say. It was as awesome as I'd thought it would be, and it was good to see Andy and Joe, who hadn't been at Southbound, and to have them so happy that we'd come. We uh, pinched Olga's set list when they'd finished, and I stuck around talking to her until the Rosemont staff closed the bar.
I slept... badly? or at least, in a somewhat disturbed kind of way once we got back to Sab and Alice's. I've never really been able to sleep well in the city, but I guess I got enough, because I didn't feel too tired when I did actually wake.
Went to poker at Dom's place, which was pretty awesome. I seemed to do quite well, so I was pretty happy, will have to play more though and see if it was just beginners luck or not. At any rate I got back the money I paid for lunch and my buy-in plus a few dollars, so it was quite a game. We got headed out onto the road around 7ish and took our time, and it's good I guess to be out of such a busy and dynamic environment. I'm not really one for the city - guess the concrete jungle just isn't my thing.
Was definitely a good time though, and it was good to catch up/meet people.
Now back to playing my music I guess. I still have a lot to work out before I'll be satisfied even with the guitar and lyrics, let alone bass and eventually drums.
We decided to maverick our way through navigation by initially not bothering with any, and choosing for an alternate pathway into Perth than the one Nezz's dad handily wrote down for us to get to Yokine... and as a result of this, it being my first time driving in Perth since I'd been on my L plates, and the fact that we didn't think to get any bearings at all until we'd left the freeway and were en route to the city center meant that we did a few loops around some of Perth's most congested traffic areas during peak hour... fun!
It's times like those I'm glad that I'm able to remain level headed when I drive.
We got to Sab and Alice's place, and could see Sab through the window (so we called him, just to watch him go for the phone) and spent a bit of time hanging out with him before Alice got home. While she got changed and ready to go out, Sab taught me to play poker, which was pretty cool, and then we headed down for some HJ's before hitting the Rosemont.
I went up to Olga to say hello before the first support band played, and she was pretty stoked to see me, and twice as stoked when she saw that Nezz was with me. Joe and Andy were wandering around too, though for some reason Ross was pretty scarce all night.
I have to say that the punk band at the beginning sounding like a cat with it's ass in a blender put to a microphone that feeds back on itself with a drumbeat in the background. They were ridiculously loud, their drummer had a technique rivaled only in lack of finesse and actual skill by the guy from Maple, who doesn't know how to control his wrist joints and thus waves his arms around like a fappish gay kid with no sense of rhythm. Her technique was pretty much entirely in her forearms rather than her wrists, which meant after the first two "songs (if you can call them that)" she started to look visibily tired and the veins on her arms started popping out. Ewww.
Played some pool, which apparently the girls won by rule of quitting while ahead, while the next band was on, didn't really hear much of them but I didn't mind what I did hear... and then finally they came on, and they've definitely improved since the first time we saw them here in Collie. They're still just as energetic, and the sounds they're able to create are even crazier than last time - with some parts just sounding pure... animal? tribal? it's really hard to say. It was as awesome as I'd thought it would be, and it was good to see Andy and Joe, who hadn't been at Southbound, and to have them so happy that we'd come. We uh, pinched Olga's set list when they'd finished, and I stuck around talking to her until the Rosemont staff closed the bar.
I slept... badly? or at least, in a somewhat disturbed kind of way once we got back to Sab and Alice's. I've never really been able to sleep well in the city, but I guess I got enough, because I didn't feel too tired when I did actually wake.
Went to poker at Dom's place, which was pretty awesome. I seemed to do quite well, so I was pretty happy, will have to play more though and see if it was just beginners luck or not. At any rate I got back the money I paid for lunch and my buy-in plus a few dollars, so it was quite a game. We got headed out onto the road around 7ish and took our time, and it's good I guess to be out of such a busy and dynamic environment. I'm not really one for the city - guess the concrete jungle just isn't my thing.
Was definitely a good time though, and it was good to catch up/meet people.
Now back to playing my music I guess. I still have a lot to work out before I'll be satisfied even with the guitar and lyrics, let alone bass and eventually drums.