NEWS FLASH: spuns not evicted.

after a couple of weeks of worry, scrubbing marks from walls, and hiding instruments and things in all kinds of places... 2/3rds of your favorite band are NOT homeless and are back on good terms with their landlord.

I think we are so proficient at house cleaning that we really should have a big party soon and mess it all up. oh it's my birthday soon. good times.

qantas breaks guitars - spuns sunday in sydney

hello :)

hold tight, this is going to be a bit of a long winded photo documentary of the weekend - get up at 5am, get on plane, play annandale, drink a few frosty brews in the sun, get back on plane, go to bed... sounds simple right? ..... well we had fun anyway.

ok so we knew things were looking our way when we checked in our luggage... 18kg over and $150 later we were on the plane! for a show we were doing for free this wasn't the best start.

anyhow, flight was delayed due to the pilot breaking down on the freeway (aparently... it was sunday morning i bet he had a blinder!) after that pretty smooth until during landing at sydney airport the pilot suddenly pulls up and boosts up the engines... first aborted landing any of us had experienced. the captain gave himself a little bit of time to come up with a suitable excuse and let us know that there was a plastic bag on the runway.

here is the early morning spuns at sydney air port while we waited for cath to come pick us up. we're spoilt!
don't get between rich and his coffe in the morning :)
matt staring at some freaky doods a bit further up.
the dananananannandale hotel! didn't find any bits of elbow laying around.
kid confucius sound checking. sounded huge!
we decided that the annandale is our fav venue in syd (that we've been to). you can't buy carpet like that man... you have to make it.
Static Silhouettessetting up before our set. krang 2.0 in all it's glory.
post gig injury. according to matt this means he was really enjoying himself.
interesting photo of richs glasses. outside soaking up a bit of 24deg weather. not a cloud in the sky.





if i space these two photos right they might look like a vertical panorama? anyway only damage for rich was to his pants. he also said that this means he was enjoying himself. thankfully rich always carries a second set of trousers for just such emergencies.

monkeyface.
rob hanging out with some of the junior members of the audience during his show. they loved it! probably not the best photo of rob but the kids are cute. he kind of reminds me of riddick and i was looking out for a steel pipe or something in case he tried to kill me... but no he's actually really nice.
kid confucius horns and guitar
rob turning a microphone into diamonds with his bare hands.

after the show upstairs in the annandales lodge - amazing place. totally doing another show and staying there. here's a pic of nathan of kid confucius doing his best rolf harris impersonation with richs pedal/wobble board.

so after all the fun/food/beer etc we had to go home... time to spend another half hour squished between my pedal bag and rich... eating my bass case.

we left it a little late to work out how we were going to avoid paying $150 for extra weight on the way home... but rich pulled all his pedals off his board and stuck them in a bag to carry on. I run through the airport and stole some giant clear bags from this big roll while the special baggage guy wasn't looking... stuck my pedal board in one (way too big for carry on) and bass station keyboard in another. got some pretty wierd looks and a couple of questions while going through the security check.

the staff aboard the plane seemed to be really nice to us based on somehow getting 2 $6 beers for $5... later on an air hostess came up to ask us a 'silly question' - they wanted to know if we were in a band called 'the script'. um no. sorry ladies. i don't think the script would be carrying their pedals in a clear plastic bag on the plane on their world tour.

this is me in the toilet. was getting a bit bored so i hung out in the can for a bit. bit wierd i guess.

unfortnately when we arrived and grabbed our gear it was my stuff that took all the damage. keyboard case was broken inside, and my rickenbacker case had the handle ripped clean off! i can only imagine what they were actually doing behind closed doors.
we gave the baggage desk a serving though and aparently i can get both my cases fixed and they will pay for it. should I send my ricky case to USA and see how much i can make it cost?
overall we had a totally awesome day and met some really nice doods. the kid confucius crew, static silhouettes were all totally cool. there was this totally familiar looking guy hanging around too... turned out to be andy bull! also a very nice dood. aw everybody is nice! well except for qantas baggage handlers. grrr.

clay-sr

Hey, Rich here.
Just thought I might drop in here to say hi.
I promise I'll start blogging more. Good on Clay for being the blog guy so far.

mmmm.... what to say?
We did a really fun show at the Annandale in Syd at the weekend it was a blast. Thanks heaps to those of you that may have been there and made it such a great day. I'm sure Clay will elaborate in his blog post.

Currently as I sit at my computer..... errr... I am totally tired.
Clay and I have been trying not to get evicted by our landlord so we have been cleaning heaps this last week. Today we put in a mammoth session. That combined with an unhealthy dose of dodgy cleaning product chemicals has me rather delirious. We have worked awfully hard. The question is : Landlord, cunt or cool dood. I'll let you know next week.

Other stuff... but FUN stuff. Has been our progress on writing the album. Last week we were sinking our teeth in to our latest new song, "her name is heartache & they call me procrastination". We are very excited about it! It has RIFFS! yay!

oooo! also if you haven't already done this. Do your self a favor and get your hands on the new Arctic Monkeys album. It is the muts nuts.

I better get back to mopping the floor.

Ciao peeps
Rich x

oops damn ebay

8 channels of 'pretend' analog goodness... with all the effects i need inside. should simplify 'krang' a little. the postman dropped it off the other day and left it at the front door. eeeek! thankfully nobody helped themselves to it before we noticed the package.



look at all those pretty knobs!



ironically i'm testing it out with the real analog synth it succeeded.


ok synthnerd out.

clay-sr

Rich is back!

Ok enough fluffing around, time to get down to some serious writing. studio? check. band all in the one city? check. band all in the same room with a bunch of noisy things? sort of check... we need to practice for a few shows coming up.



so we finally managed to get some 'value' out of this rehearsal room... except we spent half the night working out why 1/3 of the carpet was soaking wet starting from that corner of the room with the roof drain pipe. hmm


still needs more sound absorbent things in there... but seemed to work well.

GIGS:

So rich is back from scotland, and we've lined up a couple of shows...

13th AUGUST @ LAUNDRY
playing a free show this thursday with the 'LAST DINOSAURS' from brissy. they sound alright so looking forward to it. - 'last dinosaurs myspace' - aparently they have cheap jugs and other stuff. it's just down the road from the old bar on johnston st if you're not sure where it is.

3rd SEPTEMBER @ STREET PARTY (161)
don't think i've ever been here but street party looks like one of those things where good looking kids get trashy so we should fit right in :P

clay-sr