I remember being in Tamworth and watching the Steve Forde bus roll by and thinking 'wow I wonder what it's like to roll around the country in that thing!!'. Well now I know! 12 bunks each wth their own DVD player. Rear lounge room with Xbox360 and giant plasma TV. The front lounge has an even bigger Plasma TV with huge speakers lining the roof and subwoofers in the seats. The bus has it's own fridge, microwave, coffee machine, toilet, you name it, it's all in that bus!! The ultimate way to travel in style and comfort. Not sure what the 20 kangaroos we hit thought of it, but who wouldn't throw themselves in front of this thing!

I guess I gotta come right out and tell everyone about our nearly fingerless friend Rowdy. I mean the guy goes everywhere with us, and how do we treat him, we sever his finger off. There was no better place on earth to cut half ya finger off than in the middle of the desert, a million miles from a doctor. Actually I think when we got to the nearest hospital in Quilpie they suggested just choppin the finger off. If you weren't there the story goes that Rowdy was trying to help lift a freakin heavy box onto the semi trailer and somehow forgot to take his fingers away when he put it down, which was how Rowdy's and his finger parted company for a while. The bloke must be tough as nails - all he had to say was 'I think this is bad'. Not as in 'I THINK THIS IS BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!', but just in a calm and collected voice 'I think this is bad'. Well yeah no joke when we saw that his finger was only held on by a small piece of skin!! You can see a pic of Rowdy below sporting the bandages on his middle finger. Tough as nails ROWDY!!!!! Rowdy eats pain for breaky!! I'm sure he eats raw meat for breaky too. Slams his balls in the fridge door just for a laugh. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Greatest Roadie in all of Oz. Actually the greatest roadie might have just bit the loose finger off and kept workin, but they are really hard to find so we'll stick with our Rowdy. I reckon if Trent the truck driver became a roadie he may have taken the honours (you had to be there to understand that I just said...).

Did I mention the dust................ok ok I won't start! One of  my fav moment on the trip was Ross pullin out the Black Crowes DVD and throwin it on full ball on the bus sound system! That was something! Can't stop ravin about that bus.

We met some people who had come to the rodeo just to see us play!!!! I can't remember any names - but one of the group is pictured in the shot up top with all us dusty ugly mugs - please drop us a line if you read this, and thanks for coming so far to see us, we were blown away by that. Big thanks to Gary Day and all the FEG crew - you guys are amazing and treated us so well, fantastic crew, great blokes. Oh and I gotta make a special mention to Mo the bus driver - who also doubled as a super drummer from hell. Mo got up with us for a few songs mid set and showed he aint just a bus driver - the bloke can PLAY!!!!!!!! Thanks mate - we gotta do that again. Still tryin to get my sleep patterns around the right way - you loose all awareness of time when you sleep in those coffin beds in the bus - you wake up and you have no clue where you are or what time it is.  Did I mention the dust....................................