WA TOUR DIARY!!!! YEEEEEEOOOOOWWWW!!!!

25/03/2009

K today we are heading back to PERTH!!! We are all effing stoked to be going back as last time was so much fun so i wake up (say it with me now...) feeling less than amazing, less reading more sleeping would have been a good idea. My Dad has volunteered to drop this precious cargo at the airport as i am flying seperately from the boys as dad has come through with the goods and used his frequent flyers to get my ticket SIKED! So i check in without too much trouble pay a visit to
oversized baggage to get our merch box checked and i am rockin a window seat in no time yeow!!!

Flying on your own is stupid boring thank god there are like 15 movies to choose from and i have three books, my DS and my ipod with me hahahaha Brett - 1, Boredom - 0. I cruise the movie channel and make probably one of the worst decisions of this whole tour - twilight. Maybe i was tired or not thinking straight but no one will shut up about this thing so i check it out, wish i didnt and ill leave it at that. After that i go for a better choice and pick burn after reading awesome movie. After a little nap i am descending into Perth.

Jump off the plane roll to baggage as im waiting for my bags Far comes in (the boys landed a couple of hours before me) helps me pick up my luggage and i meet the rest of the guys in the van out the front, we have nothing to do and nowhere to go so we head to the beach! After some hanging out and a stupid match trick i tried to show to lachlan which ended up nearly burning my fucking hand off we are back in the van and headed to our first venue THE FOUNDRY.

Cannington, not the NICEST area i've ever spent my time but what are you gonna do we are in perth! im happy enough about that to not let it worry me. At load in we meet Jonny who is our tour manager/promoter/dispenser of beer and multiple other things as well as the bass player in fractures of who are playing most dates of this tour with us. At load in some old friends come down including nicest guy alive and elora danan guitarist Ryan! missed this dude if you have met him you know how nice he is.

We load in and watch some of the bands the venue The Foundry is kinda strange half
steakhouse half venue and its Wednesday night we arent expecting much but a few shuffle through the door which is nice. Last time we played this venue on the Elora tour it was a nightmare to say the least so we are a little nervous but jump on and play surprisingly well! yeow!!

Post show we are off to Jonnys sisters place to crash for the night (thanks sam!) who is already in bed but our beds are all set up all over the house thanks to Jon so we all throw our shit on the
floor and literally pass out. Goodnight.


26/03/2009

WOKE UP FEELING AMAZING!! Yes, knew it would happen soon. Lachlan and i got stuck in the same room together (on bunks! yeow!) because we are the snorers of our band and apparently quite good ones we are told. I wake him up and we head out to the kitchen where everyone is hanging out watching tv.

Kenny, Lach and Far decided its time to hit the beach so they head out. Drew has been pretty sick so he thinks it best to stay and relax i agree with him and we lay on the couch and watch sin city forgot how amazing this movie was Nick Stahl is my hero.We were told that Sam has a dog called Keisha so of course i imagine a tiny little poodle or something, yeah nahhhhhhh rottweiller big as hell and not happy when i walk out the back door goes APESHIT scared the life out of me i rethink my idea to head out the backyard. Sam comes home and makes us all a massive amazing dinner!!! so good. She lets Keisha in the house and surprisingly she is really affectionate probably just hated strangers with big hairdos talking to her like she is an idiot.

Off to the next venue Mojo's out at Fremantle hit the van and start driving. Get to the venue its
really nice almost shedlike i actually am not sure how to describe it the outdoor area looks like
someones backyard its great! I hit a nap in the van after load in our friends Ash, Evan, Micheal and a few others (2 live here, 1 flew over to hang out for the shows) roll up (as they did last night) to hang out (fucken brackets!! WOO!!) and everyone starts hanging out drinking and what not. I have to do an interview with Anarchy on the air which is a local Perth radio station and the guy who runs said show works for our label his name is Ben he has a gigantic beard and likes finch he is also so fucking nice and is a great conversationalist so the interview goes great.

Pineapple Juice/Water/Melon flavoured extra and we are on stage, i didnt really feel this show at the start but it got good at the end. The bar owner offered us a free round to play 2 more songs, done and DONE sir! after the show we hang with all the bands and talk to some friends and start loading out after that we were back in the van and heading home in bed and out cold probably 2 hours later.

27/03/2009

Ok so last night Ash (the friend that lives here that was an old school friend of Far's CATCH UP!) offered to take a few of the boys to Margaret River as Kenny is really into surfing and he's pretty good too so Drew, Kenny, Ash and Sutter were all up at 5 am to trek 3 and a half hours to Margaret River for what im told later was 5 to 6 foot great surf so thats what they did all day. Far went to the beach with some other of his Perth friends Lach and i did pretty much nothing.

Tonight is the only all ages show on the tour so everyone wants this to be a good one after everyone converges back at Sam's we head out. HQ is in a place called Leederville and last time we were here i found an amazing book shop, amazing coffee and an amazing vege burger so i was stoked to come back we load in Ryan is back to hang out as well as Matt from Elora which was nice to see those dudes again after load in Ryan and i stand around and talk about many things including Lemony Snicket and their new album In the Room Up There and the upcoming tour they are doing. After that i am off to the bookshop!! spent about an hour in there found the complete works of the brothers grimm! a bunch of old creepy fairy tales about wolves and witches and all matter of amazing things good times for me.

Head back to the van, PJ/H20/Melon Chewy, do some warm ups and we play. Cant believe kids who saw us one time ages ago have come back and are singing along it was a really fun show and all our friends from Perth are here hanging out singing along was alot of fun.

Post show Far tells me an amazing story about a phone call he got before the show goes like this:

Our friend from home Jay calls Far and says: "Hey mate whats goin on what are you doing this afternoon was gonna come around for a beer"

Far replies: "Dude im in perth!!!"

Jay: "Shit really? alright well ill call ya back later"

One hour passes........

Far: "Hello?"

Jay: "Dude its Jay can you pick me up from the airport in like 7 hours?"

ahahahahaahahaha

So we go to Damien from Fractures Of's place as he is putting us up tonight after Far drops us off he is off to the airport to pick up Jay, ahaha so good.

Ok so Damien from Fractures Of's house is RIDICULOUS! dude has his own bar out the back the place is like 5 seconds from the beach like 6 rooms a big white huskie called Bella and heaps of other cool shit he drags us out to the bar where we hang and have a few beers and find out that in half an hour when the clock strikes midnight it will be Damo's birthday so the guys rip into the beer and at midnight we all wish him happy birthday and i head to bed.

28/03/2009

I wake up to whispers "Where is he? is it this room? its this room right?" i hear the door creak open and immediately proclaim "Fuck off jay dont you touch me!!" Jay jumps on me and says good morning damn near breaks my hip doing it. I jump out of bed and once again (cos i miss out on everything cos i am a big skirt and dont drink heaps) am told about the previous nights shenanigans when Jay got home from the airport everyone started pounding the drinks a playstation 3 match off happened and no one has been to bed yet. When i enter the kitchen a bbq is being prepared and so are bloody marys for everyone i get a phone call from Ryan who as well as being nice dude/ED guitarist/love of my life is also a tattoo artist and a really really good one he tells me he has an opening spot today if i want to go down and get tattooed i say yeah and convince Lachlan to drive me.

After the best tour breakfast ever! i shower and Lach and i make the 45 minute trip to Mt Lawley. Little known fact about Lachlan when he is tired he is the funniest dude alive we took turns picking radio stations and got the weirdest mix of songs ever he was cracking me up singing along to random foreign stations and being a general fool. Got there said hey spent about 40 minutes in the chair being tattooed back to the van back to Damiens.

Tonights show is the last show on the tour and hopefully the biggest so everyone is ready to go. We are playing the rocket room which is in Northbridge (another not so nice area) when we get there we say hey, load in, soundcheck (i have to play drums at soundcheck cos Lach is at a Netball trivia night, dont ask. seriously.) After that i go for a walk and check out Northbridge its not as bad as i first thought they got a timezone, thats ok with me. Get a phone call from Cam and Dezo from Calerway!! (dezo has left the band but we met when they toured with us) to say they are coming to the show also the amazing Tim Marley and his girlfriend are in attendance yeeoowww we missed these guys and they are coming down to party so tonight should be sweet.

Back to the venue to watch some bands and say hey to all our friends who have turned up. One of the people who we met last time who is here is Christine, Christine tells me she has been reading my blog and has brought me a present, out of her bag she pulls a 2 litre bottle of pineapple juice STOKED!!!!!! thank you again Christine that was really cool.

We watch the bands and i get stoked on a band called Grim Fandango who are kinda like Against Me, meets Gaslight Anthem meets Hot Water Music i really love them you should check them out www.myspace.com/grimfandangomusic
We head on and everyone is well liquored up!!! Including Ash, Jay and Bluntish who have been doing tequila shots for the last two hours haha Bluntish could barely string a sentence together watching him trying to convince his girlfriend he wasnt that drunk was piss funny. Kenny and Far were doing shots with the sound guy before the show so we were ready for an interesting night. During the news Cam runs up for some harmonies haha, Far blows an amp and during we take this to the night i climb onto the bar so it was the funnest show of this tour easily.

Post show everything just gets ridiculous. We meet a security guard called Andre who tells us there is a strip club above the venue and when we have loaded out there is a bunch of free alcohol and free admission to the club upstairs so we load out and head upstairs. Drinks are flowing!!! all the boys are sauced i start on the bourbon and cokes and am catching up real fast. After a bunch of drinks we stumble back downstairs to rocket room where there is a covers band playing and they have just started playing Killing in the name of, as far as Kenny, Far and i were concerned it was on we stormed the stage pinched all their microphones and took over hahahah was amazing. After that even Andre the security guard jumped up and had a sing!! was amazing.

The night kinda gets a little hazy from here on out and i dont remember heaps i went back to my accom and passed out the boys kept going and went from the bar to the airport to fly home hahaha.

29/03/2009

Wow of all the times i've said it this was the worst, felt so shiiiiit but it was completely worth it hahaha. Since i dont fly out till tomorrow Ryan and i are gonna hang we head to Leederville to get greasy food and then back to his place in Baldivas to hang out. We start watching the number 23 i wake up at the end and Ryan proclaims that i have an amazing snore on me. Yessss sir. Ryans girlfriend Tara and his dog Mogwai come home and his room mate and other Elora guitarist Isaac stumbles out of his room we eat and then get into an argument about who are better Zombies or Vampires (vampires!) watch Yes Man with Jim Carrey, funny but not amazing. after that i am stuffed and am ready for bed, nighty night.

30/3/2009

wake up get changed and get ready to go HOME! This was such a good trip but by the time i get into the car i am ready to go back to Sydney and sleep in my bed. Ryan drives me out to the airport, when we get there there are thousands of people outside the airport and we have no idea whats going on i say goodbye to Ryan and say something stupid like "Its probably nothing" when i get closer i find out they are not letting anyone in. BAGGAGE HANDLER STRIKE! bastards!! I speak to a lady from the rental car place and she tells me that no one is going anywhere for a long time, i start to freak out and then suddenly remember that my Dad is in town on business!! YESSS OLD RICKO TO THE RESCUE! call up dad tell him the deal he says he has a hotel in the city that i should just go there and hang out FUCK YESSS!!! spend the day in the hotel until Jay calls me up and tells me he is still in town like me until tomorrow so i head into the city meet him and sutter we hit the beers and do a mini pub crawl then i head over to northbridge to hit up timezone (i rule at arcade mario kart, challengers hmm hmm?) then go have dinner with dad, back to the hotel to sleep.

31/03/2009

Head out for breakfast with Jay and Sutter to the most depressing bar in all of Perth i dont know what it was called but it was 10 am we were eating breakfast and they were playing like the best of celine dion and all this other depressing shit but the food was good say bye to the boys head to the airport. No entertainment on this flight!! qantas as given everyone 30 dollar give vouchers for the newsagents so i go buy a book (The Curious Incident of the dog in the night by Mark Haddon) i jump on the plane almost read the book from cover to cover then i am HOME!!!!!!!!

Thank you to anyone who came out and a massive THANK YOU to everyone who let us sleep on their floors and fed us or came and said something nice to us. We love Perth and if i forgotten any amazing story or anyone let me know and i will add it in!!! xoxoxoxoxoxox

Photos from the last Perth show.

Sweet book, sweet dude?

New tattoo.