One Hell of a Storm 27.07.06

(Supporting the Flood at Peninsula Lounge)

Thought I'd kick off a band 'Blog' page just for the fun of it! What is a BLOG Mitch? Well if you ask me I'd say it's a fancy way to say 'Dear Diary' on the internet or something? Can someone look it up for me. You see the guy who runs our web site does a great job but lacks a bit on the story telling side of things, so I asked him real nice if I could put something on here. At first he said "no freakin way, you guys should just stick to playing guitars", but I eventually persuaded him. I'm not even sure if people will read this stuff but we'll throw it on even if it's just to amuse ourselves. That way Rob might go to our web site and then he'd see our gig dates and remember when we are playing. Onto my story.........................

It's no secret the admiration our band has for 'The Flood'. Gav has been "stalkin em for years", and has since introduced all of us to the magic of KB and co. You just know that music flows through their vains, whether they are playing to 3 or 300 people they tear the house down every time. It was no surprise that when we ventured to Tamworth earlier this year that we spent most nights in the beer garden of  the Tamworth Hotel watching these guys. So when we were asked to support them - we said 'hmmmmm well hmmmm I better check my diary I might be washin my hair'. Well actually we said "F#$% SH#$ F#$% YEAH NO WORRIES" and then Gav wet his pants (he is going to kill me for writing that!!!). If you were to describe a recipe for KB's voice it would be like this: take one set of untouched vocal chords, drag them lightly over a cheese grater, marinate for 30 years in a bucket of scotch whiskey, add emotion for flavour. Cook in a smokey touring van for another 10 years and serve nightly with 20 songs and onstage banter. Delicious! The guy is a songwriting, screamin, guitar demon rock dog from hell.

Might make mention of the fact that Rob missed out on being in the group shot because he was out back havin a puff - so I told him I'd do some cut and paste and put him in the photo. Can you see him in there - top left hand corner, he isn't smiling!! :-). (he will kill me for writing that!!!). "Mobile mate if you can't afford it, love ya". I reckon the smiles that we all had in that pic were still on our faces till late the next day. If you haven't seen em live make sure you do - worth every penny. You'll find it hard to walk away after the show and not have KB open that merchandise suitcase of his to throw you a CD or two. Christ now this sounds like I'm writing a review or something. It was great to finally meet the guys and have a quick yarn over a cold beer - great band & great blokes. Hope we can do it again some time............soon. Thanks to all our crew who came on the night. If you want to see em again then come to Denni Ute Muster with us in September!