Thursday, March 20, 2008
AUZ TOUR 2/22
So the best flight ever gave way to the worst airport ever. We landed at the Sydney airport and had an hour and a half layover before our flight to Melbourne. We went through customs and did the whole rigamarole. Time kept slipping away and we started suspecting we might miss our connection. We got to some new security checkpoint to recheck our bags and shit and the lady looked at our tickets and said "oh you're going to miss your flight- hoo hah" fart noise. Then we're waiting through the long line and the same lady starts rushing these metal bands through the line to make their flight. Why not us? When we went through like the third security checkpoint Yoshi was questioned about his metal discs (cymbals). Then we had to get on some bus to get driven to some other weird part of the airport. There was no way we could have ever in our wildest dreams.......... shit sorry this is really boring.
Anyway, we finally made it to Melbourne. Fucking sunny, perfect temperature. Izzo picked us up in T-Shaq's car and it was blasting the Pretty in Pink soundtrack, which was the perfect music to introduce us to 'Stralia. We drove straight to band practice. Because of our flight mishaps we missed four hours out of our six hour practice, so we really had to bear down and jam some serious jams to get the new people feeling right with the music. We had Gus from AIH filling Bren's role as 2nd drummer and harmony vocalist, Marky from Lorksmiths playing my guitar parts, and Mark from Jeht doing crazy dinosaur noises and shit (seriously). Plus we hadn't played with Lizeth in a while (flyinette) or T-Shaq (trombone, singing). But we pretty much ruled the practice and went through a coupla slabs (cases), so we knew we were doing things right.
Afterwards I went to my host Gus' house for a sec and then we went to meet people at Marky's girlfriend Christy's fashion show. We got there right as it ended and I saw a coupla pals there that I hadn't seen yet and met Nate, our Australian label boss who turned out to be one of the best dudes on earth and a nominee for Dude Hall of Fame. Afterwards we ate some chorizo pizza and went to a pub to meet some more dear friends and ordered pots of beer (stupid little tiny glasses of beer). You can order beer in about six different glass sizes and they all have different names, and the names change according to what part of the country you're in. Didn't turn out to be as big a problem as I anticipated though. Ehh, people were falling asleep at the bar and almost getting run over by cars going the opposite way so we had sort of an early night.
So the best flight ever gave way to the worst airport ever. We landed at the Sydney airport and had an hour and a half layover before our flight to Melbourne. We went through customs and did the whole rigamarole. Time kept slipping away and we started suspecting we might miss our connection. We got to some new security checkpoint to recheck our bags and shit and the lady looked at our tickets and said "oh you're going to miss your flight- hoo hah" fart noise. Then we're waiting through the long line and the same lady starts rushing these metal bands through the line to make their flight. Why not us? When we went through like the third security checkpoint Yoshi was questioned about his metal discs (cymbals). Then we had to get on some bus to get driven to some other weird part of the airport. There was no way we could have ever in our wildest dreams.......... shit sorry this is really boring.
Anyway, we finally made it to Melbourne. Fucking sunny, perfect temperature. Izzo picked us up in T-Shaq's car and it was blasting the Pretty in Pink soundtrack, which was the perfect music to introduce us to 'Stralia. We drove straight to band practice. Because of our flight mishaps we missed four hours out of our six hour practice, so we really had to bear down and jam some serious jams to get the new people feeling right with the music. We had Gus from AIH filling Bren's role as 2nd drummer and harmony vocalist, Marky from Lorksmiths playing my guitar parts, and Mark from Jeht doing crazy dinosaur noises and shit (seriously). Plus we hadn't played with Lizeth in a while (flyinette) or T-Shaq (trombone, singing). But we pretty much ruled the practice and went through a coupla slabs (cases), so we knew we were doing things right.
Afterwards I went to my host Gus' house for a sec and then we went to meet people at Marky's girlfriend Christy's fashion show. We got there right as it ended and I saw a coupla pals there that I hadn't seen yet and met Nate, our Australian label boss who turned out to be one of the best dudes on earth and a nominee for Dude Hall of Fame. Afterwards we ate some chorizo pizza and went to a pub to meet some more dear friends and ordered pots of beer (stupid little tiny glasses of beer). You can order beer in about six different glass sizes and they all have different names, and the names change according to what part of the country you're in. Didn't turn out to be as big a problem as I anticipated though. Ehh, people were falling asleep at the bar and almost getting run over by cars going the opposite way so we had sort of an early night.
