I got to Happy for the soundcheck on Wednesday and the first thing Jeff Henderson said to me was 'so did you find out if you've got AIDS?'. What a drag - that's what I get for keeping a record of my life in public, starting from its tacky nadir in October 2003. He's apparently not a regular reader or anything since his next question was 'how was the South Island?' - ie not having picked up that I'd been in Melbourne the last four months. But it shows a few people know about my dirty laundry and the word gets around. As I've said before, the blog's just here for the sake of not keeping secrets.
Gig went pretty well - I love playing in a band, something I've wanted to do for the last decade or so. Maybe I'm making up for lost time by making it a 14-piece?
I went to the Kapiti Coast District Council yesterday to find out about hiring the Paekakariki Memorial Hall - venue for the annual classical Concerts by the Sea series. It's $9 an hour to hire (plus $250 bond and a fair bit of paperwork), so looks pretty feasible for us to play there. I'm pretty sure I can get us in the newspaper anyway.
At the moment I'm tired - late nights & early mornings with the Bomb the Space Festival on. I went along last night mainly to see my friend/mentor Paul Winstanley from Auckland (and New Plymouth before that) play - of course he was on last, finishing some time around 1am. There was a lot of good music, but it's kind of a long-haul event.
Anyway the point I suppose I've been alluding to is that in Wellington there's almost an overload of music etc in a small place, so it becomes locked into a scene and people get jaded. Whereas playing in small towns a gig can be an event...
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