Tuesday 5 June 2012

Did our 3rd gig since reforming on Sunday at The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. Really enjoyed playing there as the venue is intimate and the sound system pretty good. It was nice to play to an audience, especially after our previous outing at The Evelyn Hotel on the Mother's Day Sunday in May. It was a tough ask to get people to come to that, nevertheless, it was good to play but also to witness the debut gig of  Only Aliens, our friend Lou's (and former Love Handles drummer) original band. After 20 years in the live scene, nothing really has changed much with regards to some venues. At the Evelyn, the first thing I noticed when I arrived there was that they were advertising the support band as being Phoebes Dream even though we clearly stated that they were not the support act. And then, I also noticed on one of their posters that they had listed us as 'Raw Factory' ha ha lol, what the fuck!! I am convinced that those who work with any form of printing are of their heads because of sniffing too much ink.

At the Retreat however things went smoothly and we even got paid at the end of the gig! So I definitely endorse the Retreat as a great venue for bands where you are at least shown some respect. We also played a couple of songs from our 'At the End of the Day' album, namely 'Oblivion' and 'Blood Red House', something that Fam and Sera hand't performed before but managed to deliver them excellently.

Our Jango Airplay fan base is continuing to grow and we now have 59 fans from as far and wide as Brazil, Lebanon, Bulgaria and Mexico who have listened to 'Shelter'. Ah the wonders of the internet!

In the next few months we will be concentrating on completing our new songs in preparation for our 3rd album which we hopefully can release next year. 

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