Good Times And Killer Rhymes - Part 1

05/03/09

Tonight we begin our long voyage to the Gold Coast to begin The Good Times And Killer Rhymes Tour with our new friends Stealing O'Neal. As we are sharing a van on this leg of the tour the Oneal dudes are picking us up from my house on their way from Melbourne so they get to mine about 8 we hang out and meet each other do the whole getting to know you thing load up the trailer and we are on our way. On the way we all hung out and talked about random shit and basically just relaxed. Tom from Stealing O'Neal brought a portable dvd player so we hooked that up to the stereo and the boys watched Saving Private Ryan while i tried to sleep and listened to my ipod and soon fell asleep.

06/03/09

I wake up with the sun hammering down onto me i sit up and try and figure out where we are im told we are just near burleigh heads, we always stop here on our way to brisbane to hit the beach and get breakfast before we head to the gold coast so we hang out and chill out for a bit then jump back in the van and get to the gold coast. The boys are staying in Brisbane and we are staying witha friend on the coast so they drop us off and head to their accom as our friend doesnt finish work till 3.30 we have all day to keep ourselves occupied so Drew and Far head to the beach and Lachlan and i cruise around window shopping, Kenny flew to QLD on this leg of the tour for a holiday with his mates so we are meeting him at the show tonight. After a few hours walking around i go meet my friends Adam and Emily who happen to be in town the same time as us and we grab lucnh after that Lachlan and i get back to walking around we get bored until we find a timezone and instantly get stoked and play games for 2 hours we ruled at House of The Dead and Silent Hill but i suck at car games so Lachlan smashes me, shamed.

After a while we head to our accom get showered and hang out and then we head to the venue. Tonight we are playing the Hard Rock Cafe which is pretty much a restaurant with a stage on it we head into the backstage and greet our other touring friends A Year To Remember who are opening this tour after a few hours of socialising the show is ready to start and A Year To Remember head on stage they play well these dudes write super catchy songs i was digging it we have seen these dudes before and they are always fun to watch. After that Stealing O'Neal head on and although i have heard their ep plenty i havent ever seen them live and holy shit they are super good they play great. Our turn comes we jump on and have some fun and get everyone singing along.

After the show we load out and talk to everyone who hung around then us and the oneals decide we want to head to the beach just to chill out before everyone goes back to their accom to sleep after we head to the beach we are all standing on the sidewalk just hanging and Far decides to play a game with everyone where everyone has to do a rock off and the last person to lose has to stand there for 30 seconds being stared at by everyone while they have to think of something to entertain us be it a song or a performance it really puts the person on the spot our loser tonight is Tim from Stealing Oneal when his 30 seconds were up none of us could have predicted what was about to happen - Tim strips down to nothing (literally balls flapping in the wind) and climbs onto the roof of a parked car where he does a hand stand falls forward onto his back and straight off the side of the car. I can honestly say without a doubt i have NEVER laughed so hard everyone was in fits of laughter for the next hour it was amazing. The boys drop us off at our accom and we head to bed.

Jack and Chris from SO hustlin up the back of the van

Tim passed out in the van, so i was watching him sleep what???

Waiting around.....

Fucken Timezone!!!! WOOOOOO!!!!!! Curlzzzz get da gurrrlllzzzzzzz

"Dude why are you playing the Barbie pinball game?"

Being a douchebag while i do my vocal warm ups

Tour manager Pees acting like he is doing something constructive.

A Year To Remember bringing the mosh.

7/03/09

I wake up to a pillow cracking me in the head and Far going "Dude, shut up!" so apparently im a pretty loud snorer who knew? I wake up and drink 40 litres of water and then the rest of the boys slowly wake up. Blake (who is putting us up) and Drew went out last night after the show so we sit around listening to their stories of a massively drunken night out. Drew tells us he went to a bar where there was a covers band playing Blake in his drunken state piped up and yelled out "This dude is in a band!!!" so Drew drunk as hell got hauled up on the stage to sing Mr Brightside with a covers band hahaha loose. Blake is taking Far and Lach water skiing this morning so Drew catches up on more sleep while i spend a few hours in the pool. When the boys get back we pack up our stuff say bye to Blake and head to the train station to grab our train to Brisbane, we meet Kenny at the station and head to Brisneyland.

When we get there we have to find a hotel to crash at for the night as always we are duping the hotel industry and putting 5 people into a 2 person hotel room, total badasses. So everyone showers up Kenny gets excited about bath robes and we watch the first 2o minutes of Edward Scissorhands before bailing off to the venue after we drop our stuff off i head off to find dinner and find a really nice Sushi joint the name escapes me now but it was great! When your hanging around dudes 24 hours a day its sometimes nice to head off on your own and hang out so i walked around for an hour after dinner just listening to my ipod and hanging out i was listening to Ryan Adams - Suicide Handbook which was nice to listen to while i checked out the city. After this i headed to the venue and we all stuffed around in the band room. Chris from SO and i discovered we both love Ace Ventura the original (not the second one, Tom rates it, we were off it) so we instantly begin quoting the shit out of it and then its time for the show to start.

Stealing Oneal nailed it tonight they played great and pumped us up so we had a super fun show too sound was good, there was a singalonggoinon it was sweet!!! After the show we all hit the bar and started getting loose after a few beers we headed out to the van to drink more beers and hang out with people from the show after a few beers the subject of Far's game came up again and before we knew it the rock off was happening again i was absolutely shitting myself thinking it was totally gonna be me and what the fuck i was gonna do but alas it was Chris from oneal, when his 30 seconds came up he had no idea what to do so in true Stealing O'Neal fashion Chris stripped down to nothing holding his junk in his hand he bolted down the main street of Brisbane in front of hundreds of people running around and screaming we were all in tears with laughter on his way running back a night security guard happened to get in his way so the guard ran out of Chris's way so Chris spanked him on the ass and chased him up the street hahahahah it was sooooo good. After a few more beers Tom, Far and I headed to Hungry Jacks to chow down then to the hotel to sleep. Top night.

KG getting his sexy all the way right.

4MP 4 LYFE.

Kenny and Far dicking around before the show

Far and Ryan shooting the shit.

8/3/09

Today we wake up all feeling less than amazing we shower and check out of the hotel i head off to get water and pineapple juice (good for the throat) meet the boys at subway for breakfast then walk down to Kill The Music which is this record store in Brisbane that has a venue attached to it called The Hive where today's acoustic show is. We get to the store and all of us start checking out the cd's and shirts has anyone seen the artwork to the new propaghandi record? WOW! after we are done shopping we all head into the venue where there are plenty of kids!! STOKED! last time we played here we played to like 10 people so its nice that there are more people here. We like playing acoustic shows its nice to play the songs differently (and in a lower register because my voice is less than amazing today) but we get through the set and have fun and surprisingly i think it went pretty well. Stealing O'Neal play and sound great (oh! and a year to remember were good too!) also some girls from the show the night before brought me lollies for the van ride!! YES!! sour skittles rule, thanks guys!

After the show we pack the van and head home on the van ride we watch step brothers ive been meaning to get around to this movie but just havent been bothered to check it out, sooooo funny we all sit there exhausted pissing ourselves laughing until we all fall asleep i manage to squeeze myself into a comfortable position enough to sleep and wake up out the front of my house!!! STOKED!!! we unload the trailer say goodbye to the boys (who still have 10 hours left to get to melbourne, poor bastards) i head inside and catch the simpsons on Fox 8 before i pass out.

Cant wait for the rest of this tour!!! YEOW!!!!!!!!!!!