Ruby Velour

I had intended to go to mum's for an early night to do all the final stuff for the zombie walk, but I'd promised Jess last week we'd go see Monster Zoku Onsomb tonight, so despite being really tired (had to get up and go to work at 8AM of all things, as I had a phone interview with 4ZZZ, a local radio station, about the walk). They're a local psychedelic/industrial electronica "band" and I've heard good things about them so decided to suck it up and go. WOW! They were awesome. Intense music and an amazing show. They are crazy!

But the best bit was at the very end when they started chanting "ZOMBIE WALK, ZOMBIE WALK, THIS SUNDAY, ZOMBIE WALK!" over and over. I mean I knew they were coming since one of them messaged me on Myspace about it, BUT OH MY GOD HOW COOL IS THAT?! I was so stoked I had to buy their EP. I don't know if they'll be too intense for me to listen to day-to-day but I think I might drop some of their tracks at the after-party (particularly "Eat Brains").



OK now it's time for bed before I collapse and die!

My cough is slowly subsiding. I wonder if the whinge last night had something to do with it? Well I managed to sleep and I coughed a lot less today than the last week or so, so I think it's finally buggering off. GOOD RIDDANCE!

Now my weekend roundup:

Friday night I went to see Tiger Army with Nikerz at the Cooloongatta Hotel on the Gold Coast which took an hour and a half to get too. D'oh! We ended up missing The Wrath, one of my favourite locals bands, which was frustrating since I seem to always miss their shows these days. Zombie Ghost Train were great as always, possibly my most favourite Aussie band actually. Their banter always cracks me up. Tiger Army the came on, had a lot of issues with their gear and didn't seem too impressed. But they're an intense band to see, so I enjoyed it anyway (despite having about 50 coughing fits while in the front row, very embarrassing).

Saturday I had to drive ALL the way to mum's so Anthony to get his car, and then back again as I had a work thing on. It was a social thing, where we played golf and ate tasty food. Too bad the bar tab was all of about $10 so it was used up in no time, so most of us ended up at the bar drinking cheap Corona's. Saturday night was Tiger Army at The Zoo, much more convenient and many more people there too. I went with Daz and Michelle, but caught up with Nikerz, Kira, Alec and others when we got there. I missed Mourning Tide as they're a shit screamo band, but got there in time for ZGT. Tiger Army had no issues this time and it was even more intense, as there was a bigger, scarier circle pit and about 20x the amount of people. After that we went to Monster Joe's which was an AWESOME night. We spent most of the night in the Guilty Pleasures room which played cheesy old songs all night. I forgot how good Monster Joe's is, gotta go back more often!

Sunday we went to Big Gay Day at the Wickham Hotel. We didn't have to since it's a massive street party that our flat looks out over, but I was asked to take some photos so I got in for free. It was cool, and so fabulously gay and festive. As we were all kind of poor we would go between there and my place for drinks as I had a cask of wine. Mmm classy. I didn't take many photos because I got a bit of resistance, quite a few people didn't want their photos taken. It was kind of strange actually. Hard to explain but I found it weird. But aside from that it was a fun day!

( Many photos from the massive weekend! )

GOOD NIGHT!

Crap on a stick, I've been sitting on this computer or hours photoshopping and uploading the ADICTS photos. I'm going to have to demand compensation for this soon, if not in the form of money, then at least some sort of incentive. I can think of many better things to do with my time! The latest batch can be found HERE.

The rest of my weekend was better. Worked all day Saturday which was bludgy to the point I was bored shitless. Afterwards I met up with Alec, and went to a rockabilly gig at the Alley Bar at Milton Bowl. I love that venue, after all it's a dingy little venue attached to the side of a retro-looking bowling alley. It was a good show, Bad Moon Company were superb as per usual. I managed to chat to a number of people I'd seen on Myspace, all of whom were lovely. One girl Amie-Lee and I had a common enemy, which was pretty funny, and brought us together nicely. Afterwards Alec, myself and some of his mates went in to the Valley, I didn't stay with them for long as I went to find Ant and Daz at GPO. God knows why they were there exactly, but like I'd bother to complain (yeah, forever the pushover). There were three HOT tattooed, scene guys there who weren't enjoying themselves at all. I was smashed enough to waltz up to them and have a chat. I can't even fathom why they were there, they didn't really explain either (maybe I was too shit-faced) but it was good to have some eye candy there for once.

On Sunday we had the Harry Potter meetup which was really good. Lots of new faces as well as the ever-wonderful, familiar ones. Amazingly enough we actually talked about Harry Potter, something we haven't done in ages! I'm hoping this will mean the club will start growing again and we'll get back what we had when I first started it back in 2003. Though it also made me realise how out of the "loop" I am with the fandom. Not that I've ever followed (or liked) the fandom, but needless to say I'm glad I started re-reading the bookes again recently.

I've got lots of random thoughts going through my head right now. About work, about me, about the future, about friends, about family...and so on. But I might write an entry later, because the photos have finished uploading!

( Just a few photos from Friday night )

GOODNIGHT ALL!

( Weekend Roundup )

Now for some shameless plugging. For those who I see on a regular basis, you'll probably know I'm now the "official" photographer for ADICTS. Apart from that they're friends of mine and we all know it's good to suppirt the local music scene. SO! ANYONE IN BRISBANE ON FRIDAY 9TH FEBRUARY, PLEASE COME SUPPORT THEM AT BARZUKA! It's their 2nd "Breaks and Enter" club night, which we want to become a regular event, so they need as much support as possible. It doesn't matter if you love or hate breaks music (or house in R'Daza's case), come for a bit, say hi, let me take your photos there and show the boys some support!

And just because I took half of the photos on this poster:



Oh and guess who's working at the Good Vibrations festival this Sunday? THAT'D BE ME! Bring on the Snoop Dog and Beastie Boys action, baby!