Friday 9th July 2004

Well, well, well. What a fucking night we had up in the mountains!! Thousands of beers were consumed, a great time was had by all, more beers were consumed oh and a gig happened too!! The night kicked off with a nice 2 hour annoying as all fuck drive!! On the drive, Stubby messaged me to tell me that his car had farted and shat itself so him, Pose, Rhianz, and Lisa weren’t gunna make it. Oh well, next time for sure!!

Once into the venue we realise that Gaz, Chris and me had played at this venue once before (in a previous band) and all the memories (or lack thereof I should say!!) came flooding back. With all the gear safely tucked away next to the "stage" we proceeded to the most important part of the night... THE BAR!!!!!! At this point I should mention that the "stage" was merely a rug placed on the floor with some fold backs paced strategically in front of said rug. However, the size of the room made up for the lack of stage. After about 20 minutes the chick that organized the show informed us of the free VB for band members. The only catch was that she could cut us off of the free beer whenever she thought we had had too much. So at closing time (about 2 in the morning!!!) they thought we had had enough. So free beer all night was certainly a great way to take your mind off the ever growing cold outside!!!! (They told us they were actually expecting it to snow! but it didn’t.... boo!!)

The gig itself was fairly good. Khemist kicked things off and they played a damn good set considering they had a fill in drummer who only had 12 hours to learn all their songs (played like a fucking Trojan too!!). We were up next and I don’t think the people in attendance knew what fucking hit them!!!! Looks of confusion all round!!! We played pretty well (I think anyway) and had a damn good sound. That sound guy is a fucking genius!!!! Of course I managed to get my arse out yet again!!! And didn’t the people love it!!

Once off the rug, I mean stage, and all the gear was put away it was time for more free VB!!!! Some of us stayed in the band room to watch Red Bee, while others pissed off into the poolroom for some total stupidity, I managed to do both!! Red Bee were the local favorites and while a little inexperienced (too much fucking between songs) they were a good band with some catchy songs.

All the while in the pool room complete mayhem was unfolding!! Ya see they had all these different animal heads mounted on the walls, so hill and Josho thought it would be a good idea to put lit cigarettes in their mouths and up their noses and take photos (on the website soon). At this point one gigantic, 6 foot fucking 8 inch tall bouncer said "don’t go climbing on the chairs, if ya wanna put things on the animal heads come and get me and I’ll do it for ya", so we did!!! Thought we were gunna get our arses kicked for sure!! All the locals must've thought we were insane as we took over the jukebox and proceeded to sing every song that came on at the top of our lungs!! Nothing unusual for us but clearly something the locals don’t do!! So the pub closes, so its time to retire to a couple of rooms to continue consuming numerous beers!!!! And do just that we did!! Peta from the Asylum radio show had made his intentions clear of trying to drink me under the table! Big mistake!!!! Poor old Peta rolling around on the floor trying to tell me that i was going under the table, while he couldn’t see a foot in front of him is a sight I will not soon forget!!!! Hours earlier poor little Shano made the mistake of being the first 1 too crash out!! Again another big mistake!!!! So the keys to his room I grab and off we head with Walshy’s camera to film some more stupidity!! Placing everything I could find on his head without waking him was more difficult than I thought, especially with about 500 schooners in my belly!! So we just kept yelling, and bouncing the bed until the little bastard woke up!! But do ya think he would get out of bed.... hell-fucking no!! Pussy!! Anyway more drunken fun happened but most of it I cant really remember, so it must've been good!! 5am seemed like a reasonable time to go to bed so off I went, with the last few people standing following soon after! Getting out of bed was not a whole lot of fun!! You know its cold when steam rises up from your piss!! By far the worst casualty of the night was poor old Davo!! Hung over like a motherfucker!! Throwing up so much he even clogged the toilet!! And the stench out of his and Shano’s room cannot be explained in words!! Walker even managed to fracture a rib after wrestling with Davo!! Food was first thing on the agenda and what a fucking breakfast we found!! Bacon eggs sausages hash browns toast mushrooms and tomato for only $13. Fucking brilliant!! Went for a walk to have a look around and I’m telling ya the youth up there must be bored shitless, no Maccas, no KFC, no strip joints, no brothels, no porn stores, no R&Ts nothing!!!! What kind of fucking place doesn’t have at least 3 of those previous things?? Anyway after a little bit of chillin in the pub in front of a nice fireplace it was time to head home. All in all a fucking great time was had by all. Cant fucking wait to do it all again!! Hopefully next time everyone’s car is working and people don’t miss out!!

TRAV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!