"boogie-boarding" and exploring the jungle. It was a nice rest before the actual tour began.
We witnessed a wedding at Tallebudgera Beach, where the bride arrived by speedboat, which by the way is where they filmed the camp scenes of LOST...
...i promise.
Then Scott took us deep into the forrests of Currumbin to a rock pool/waterfall he had found since moving there. Best place ever, full stop.
The water was freezing but so refreshing. Apparently people slide down the waterfall into the rock pool from higher up, but when we were there there was too much water with all the recent flooding and rainfall lately in QLD, so if we had gone from higher up the rapid then we would have overshot the pool (around 8ft long but real deep) completely and landed on the rocks haha.
Shortly after this tandem slide, i was crossing the rapid to get to the slide when i lost my footing and slipped down the cliff ending up next to the rockpool. Oops. No broken bones though, yet.
Later in the week we said goodbye to Kel and Scott (thanks for the matresses!) and picked up our Japanese friends FC Five from the Brisbane Airport. When i say friends, i mean friends that we had met twice on our last tour of Japan and hung out for a few hours. But the time we did spend with those guys over there and after playing with their band play i knew that we would get along well and that we wanted to bring them over here so other people could see what an incredible band they are.
The Brisbane show turned out to be really good. Blkout! & FC Five killed it, even though they were tired as fuck. It was awesome to see our old friend Kevin (CBK) at the show too, good luck in Australia buddy!
When we rocked up at the Byron Bay show, well about 15 minutes out of Byron in Broken Head we were a bit skeptical as to how the show would go. It was in this really ancient white wooden hall in the middle of nowhere. But after watching the first band STREET YOUTH i knew it was going to be an amazing night. This was SY's first show and to say all of us Perth dudes were blown away is an understatement. Their song Mega Town could just be the best song ever in the history of the world. FC Five ended up getting another great response too. Even though alot of people have never heard of the band, and the language barrier making it all the much harder, everytime the audience seems blown away and everyone is left smiling. It makes a difference for a hardcore show, smiling you know? Maybe people can just see they are genuine dudes and that they are one of the tightest live bands out....
Enough muso stuff. Anyway, we took everyone back to the waterfalls and they loved it...
F'n CRZY KIM!
Now we are in Sydney with a couple days rest before we hit Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide. Then home sweet home for two days to play shows and repack for the international jaunt. Kim has taught me some new drinking games so watch out if you think i'll still be playing Zippo Bong when i get home.
There are thirteen dudes to find beds for so we are currently all over the place. Thanks to Pat, Jimmy and Dan for their hospitality! Suprisingly the vans are relatively comfortable.
Tonight we are playing a show in Rick's apartment in Bondi Beach. It's a secret, i guess. Rick has a half pipe in his living room. It will be fun. Losing Streak and Homewrecker are also playing, so it will be even more fun. check it out...
House shows = short sets & covers.
'til next time,
nh.
ps.
HOT ASH!
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