Death Cab Yeah!!

Going to the Death Cab concert this Friday was almost a tragic story for me. Having hyped a whole bunch of people up to come with me the concert sold out in a few hours leaving me as the only one who got a ticket. Tickets were selling on ebay for over $150 each so it was looking like I was destined to go this one alone when, low and behold, Andrew managed to talk his way into free tickets. I'm sort of jealous that he didn't have to pay but hey it's better than going solo.

The show's this Friday at the Tivoli. Should be awesome. I've seen them once at Splendour in the Grass a couple of years back and their new album is very very good so I'm counting down until Friday night.

Is anyone else lucky enough to be going?

These Girls Are Great

Avaberee are a band of three girls and sing some of the coolest harmonies we've heard in a while, particularly since they're so young. Their voices are so amazing that we've had them up on stage to sing with us. They just won Nova 106.9's Rock School Comp at the Ekka. If you're heading into the RNA this Saturday they're playing there again opening for Faker. Well worth a watch.

Congrats girls!!!!

The Drawing Board

We've been gigging a fair bit recently and it's been great.  We've been trying to get our stage show as tight as possible.  And we think we're getting there so we're taking ourselves off stage for a little bit and going back to the drawing board to write a lot of new material.  We'll be back in the recording studio before the end of the year and so we want to have as many songs to choose from as we possibly can.  So we're going into a bit of a lockdown.

Don't worry though, we'll be playing some shows between now and then but only a few and they'll be big.  So keep your eyes open for announcements over the coming weeks.  

A New Song

If you remember a previous blog I wrote a little while ago I was struggling with writing a second verse for a new song. Well I finished it and we're finally adding the song to our live set this week. Playing a new song live for the first time is one of the coolest and most awesome parts of playing in a band. It doesn't happen all that often so I try to relish the moment as much as possible. The song's called 'Remember' and it might just be a new favourite of mine. To all the Stuartholme girls, you will be the first people outside of our band to ever hear the song so make sure you're there on Thursday. For everyone else it'll definitely be in the set at our show at Bar 388 on Friday night so make sure you're all there as well. It should be a ripper. I'm definitely psyched. I hope you are too.

Stuartholme Spectacular!!

On June 19th 2008 we are scheduled to play a show at Stuartholme private girls School in Brisbane's west. I must say one of the strangest experiences I've had so far was appearing on the full school assembly with fellow band member, Andrew Stone. The idea was that Andrew and I would come along to assembly, show our faces and help promote the charity concert. Sounds like a good idea yeah?

Anyway, Andrew and I arrived at the school at about 12pm - which for all of you who haven't been to Stuartholme it's like something out of Harry Potter, a series of old and dark buildings buried in the misty mountains of Mt Cootha - and we were promptly ushered into the great auditorium by Madeline Gough and other members of the Interact club (a v cool club by the way!!). Andrew and I took our seats in the front row and bit-by-bit the great hall filled with 100s of girls.

Coming from an all boys school myself (can you guess which one??) I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but it ended up being a really cool event. The girls from the Interact club did a really good job of introducing Andrew and I and we were interviewed briefly on stage which went quite well (except for me mis-hearing a question!).

I think the Stuartholme gig will go really well. It is a very nice school with lots of cool people who go there. School shows can be difficult for a number of reasons but I think this one might be the best yet..

Let's hope so...

John.

I am one neglectful blogger

Hey everyone

I must apologise for the serious lack of blogging lately.  I don't have much of an excuse so I won't try to make one up.  

Anyway, we've been very busy as of late.  First off, I want to make official mention of Fergus joining the band.  He's been with us for almost two months now and we're really happy to have him on board.  

We've had a lot of fun playing some really different shows.  We played a really cool gig at QPAC the other week.  It was outside and all ages and was a really good night.  Thanks to everyone who came along.  Just last night we played an acoustic show - the second one we've ever played.  It's really cool to strip everything back and rely completely on the songs to entertain.  For those who were there we hope you enjoyed the set.

Our rehearsal schedule has been working overtime recently.  We've got new arrangements for our existing songs and some new songs are on the way.  We'll announce on thequills.com.au when they'll be played for the first time so keep an eye out.  

That's all the news for now.  Hope you've all had a good week and I hope you have an awesome weekend.  Until next time, enjoy yourselves.

Dave

My pants are blue!

Just so we're clear on this... my pants (the ones i wore at the band comp and the red room shows) are definitely blue! It must be the stage lights that does something to them that turns them whatever mauve, purple, lavender or other colour people say they are.  Blue is blue that's blue when blue....