The first thing i thought of this gig was holy shit what a huge venue! What the fuck are we doing playing in a joint like this!! The Troccadero is gigantic. Then panic set in when we realised Hill's guitars were missing! Fingers were pointed, blame was laid and of course beer was drunk!! We decided to call the venue in Lismore and much to all of our relief the guitars were there. Thank fuck for the guys from Szechwan for bringing them up to Brisbane for us. From memory the gig started at 8:30 with the mighty Switchblade having the unfortunate duty of opening the show. The main reason i say unfortunate is that the only people who saw the boys play were the other bands and their girlfriends. Oh and the barmaid of course!! The Blade tore shit up regardless! They played a very tight and energetic set even though (as with most of the night) the crowd didn't seem to care.

Up next were local boys Lynchmada. These guys were really good. Nice big sound and as tight as a fishes arsehole!!! But once again as was the case with the whole night the crowd or lack thereof just didn't seem to care.

It was time for S.C.R.U.M to get on stage and show the 34 people there what we were capable of. Having realised that the crowd wasn't gunna get much bigger we just said fuck it and set about playing the best yet quickest set possible so we could get to the strip joint quicker!! It was hard not too enjoy myself on that stage as it was huge but when you look up and see that noone is paying attention it is hard not to get disheartened. Anyway I did get a few people saying that they really enjoyed our set so it wasn't all bad!!

D-Nine were up next and do those boys go off or what!! From memory there are seven blokes in this band and they know how to tear up a stage. Due to being the official trailer loader I didn't get to see all of D-Nines set but what I did see went off like a new brides nighty!!

Trav's story continues here but as you can imagine, there's no photos of what followed......

Didn't take long for Gaz, Ben and myself to get ourselves a table right in front of the stage!! Although it was a couple of metres away from the stage it was still in front of it!! We had not been sitting for more than 5 minutes when some weird drug fucked bitch came and started hassling us. Trying to take our drinks probably wasn't the best thing for this woman’s life expectancy but we let it slide!! Everyone else shows up and this chicks still hanging around so we had a few more drinks and watched a few more girls the decided to head off to another club. After being denied entry to Players due to both Ben and myself wearing steel capped boots we headed across the road to the Santa Fe Club to celebrate Gazza's bucks party!!? The bucks got in for nothing so seeing as Gaz didn't have any money he got to be the bucks!! After a while Jeff, Ben, Andrew, Picco and Me headed back to Crazy Horse only to realise that weird bitch was still there. Again we watched a couple of girls then all except Picco headed back to the hotel for a few hours sleep. The rest of the boys besides Chris and B-rad, who had piked it much earlier, stayed out for a couple more hours.

All up Friday night was definitely the biggest night of the tour with many a beer drunk and many a stripper seen!!!

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