Blogging is great!

I'm so glad I've finally figured out how to get onto this blog.  Dave's been pestering us for a while to contribute - so i'm going to make a real effort.  We've such a busy month coming up... Such a busy year for that matter!  

Anyway, i'm trying to decide what to load my ipod with - i had to format it because it isn't compatible with my new macbook (yay).  So far i've got Ben Lee - Ripe, and The Police - Best Of. 

Can't wait to hear from you!

Judging is Hard

We had a really strange but cool experience recently.  We were asked to judge a band competition.  The final was last night and it was really tough coming to a decision about the winner.  I think judging anything at all is a big task but when there's a really diverse lineup of bands of all ages playing all sorts of music... well yeah it was tough.  There were some cool bands in the comp though and I hope they'll go really far with their music.       

Second Verse Blues

As much as I love  writing songs, I hate writing second verses.  And I hope this confession doesn't make me a bad songwriter.  Actually I think every songwriter has this problem so I'm alright confessing.  Currently I am writing a brand new song.  I have written the entire song except for the second verse.  So in lyrical terms I have written the first verse, first pre-chorus, chorus, second pre-chorus and the bridge.  I am so close.  I even know what the verse is going to be about but I just can't find the words.  

Anyway I needed to vent.  The good news is that a new song is (being) written and will hopefully debut at a show very soon.  So hopefully I will see you at the grand unveiling.  

O Week Yeah!!

Sometimes you get to play to a crowd that makes a show so much fun you can't help but smile the entire set.  We had one of those ones tonight playing for some new college kids during orientation week at the Uni of Queensland.  It was a pool party and it was raining but that didn't stop the dancing and singing along.  We had a blast.

So thanks to the new college goers for making our night a whole lot of fun.  We hope you had a great intro to college and we want to wish you all the very best for the year.  Hopefully we'll see you all again sometime soon.

And One For The Kids

And by kids I mean our under-18 friends.  

We played our first headline all-ages show on Saturday and so finally you didn't need an ID card to get in.  It was a great afternoon and it was really cool to meet and play for everyone who can't make it to the clubs we're always playing at.  Thank you so much to those cool cool people who came to the show.  We'll hopefully be playing a whole lot more all-ages gigs this year.  

Back into it on Oz Day

After taking it easy for a few weeks to see in the New Year we finally got back into the swing of things last night when we played our first show for the year on Australia day.  It was a whole lot of fun and the crowd was certainly celebrating being Australian.  

For whatever reason playing a show on a special occasion has a really different feel to it.  I'm not sure how to describe it but the show last night had such a great atmosphere that it was a massive shame to have to walk off stage.  We felt like we could have played another whole set!!

A massive thanks to everyone who came out to the show for making Australia Day 2008 one to remember.  It certainly is great to live in Oz.

WFF0708

After spending 7 days camping in the mud at the 2007/08 Woodford Folk Festival we returned home today. And while we don't miss having to wade through mud to get to the showers it was sad to leave because we had an absolute blast. A massive thanks to everyone who braved the rain and came to our shows at the festival. We hope you all had a fantastic time.

And our most sincere thanks ever go to Bill Hauritz and Katie James for putting an unknown band like us on the bill of one of the greatest festivals in the country and giving us a fantastic opportunity. You're our heroes!!

We can't wait to go back next year!