Played a gig on an icy , windy Thursday night at the Grace Darling Hotel in Smith street. The Dames opened the show. Its hard to get people out on nights like these. The cold is a shock. People will get used to it. Thats me being positive. Musicians are generally negative types but they can fan flames from the smallest spark to keep themselves alive when they are deep in the forest. Of a cold, windy, icy , wet night.
Two days later I played a couple of sets at a cute boutique beer bar called Oscars Alehouse in Belgrave. This is a gig I could walk to. If it wasn’t so damn icy and windy and wet and uphill all the way. Maybe in the summer. But people in the hills are more used to the elements. They turned out. At first the place is full of twenty somethings , who are generally oblivious to music being performed. We come from different dimensions , it seems, though I can see them. Its like an episode of TRUE BLOOD. Astoundingly tall and lean , glamourous , beautiful young girls with their boyfriends, who dress in t shirts no matter what time of year.
Slowly, the music crowd come in and sit around the bars and the tables. Its me and Stu Thomas. Its cute. They sell mulled wine as well as all these exotic, strong beers. I stick to chewing gum and lemonade.
We visit these joints again this month.
The Grace Darling - Smith Street Collingwood- Thursday 8th July w/ Jane Dust and the Giant Hoopoes.
Thursday 15th July w/ the Stu Thomas Paradox
Thursday 22nd July w/ Go Go Sapien.
Oscars Alehouse- 7 Bayview rd Belgrave Saturday 10th and 17th July.
Then we head to Sydney
Thursday 29th July at Lizottes on the Central Coast.
Friday 30th July at Lizottes in newcastle
Saturday 31st July at Notes Live in Newtown
Sunday 1st August the Brass Monkey in Cronulla.
Come along.We need your blood.
Dear The Savage Sportsman,
ReplyDeleteYou and your's are real groovers! I can't believe it took me 12 years of gig-going to finally catch you in the act. I'm happy though b/c to me your's is music that can be approached in 2 ways. You either enter it with a certain naivete or you enter into it with a certain history of particular musics and stylings that have been digesting and seeping out into the interstitial fluid. LYM are r'n'b. Ain't no doubt about it! What great playing. Real bass playing. World class entertainment - which is a precious comodity in the current Australian show businezz. Only DG & TLYM and The Church come to mind as doing something fresh, current, exciting and distinctly their own. (sure there's more, right?)
I enjoyed the show so much, I came back the second week running. Yes, it was cold, cold. Looking forward to many more shows and the release of Supermodified.
Keep punching!
TT