Tamworth Country Music Festival 2007

Where to start.........................hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, think I might be way too tired for this - maybe I'll write this tomorrow.

I'll leave you all with some pics from our trip. Some of us playing our shows and some of us wandering the town. And I've got a ton more - so I'll try to get some new ones up too. Man have I got some ripper stories to tell everyone - but after a 14 hour drive sleep is a callin me! Stay tuned..............

..................Back again (day later, still goin hard on the coffee!). I tell you that last night in Tamworth when we went to watch the Flood was a killer - going to take me a week just to get over than one! Tell you about that later. Now where was I...........our 1st stop was an appearance at the official opening ceremony in the park in front of thousands of country music fans. What a way to kick off our trip! Initially we thought that was our only engagement on the Friday, but then we were told that we had our date wrong for our first Albert hotel gig and we had to play that night. That was music to our ears, I guess you don't drive 16 hours for nothing, we wanted to play! The Albert shows were amazing, both nights the pub was full, the place was jumpin and we loved every second of it. Now I don't actually have any pics from those two nights, but there is some on their way, so when I get em I'll throw em up. Because of the mix up with the Albert dates we found we now had a night off, so we decided to go see an act that had been to watch us twice already - Wildseed. We were blown away with these guys, just amazing stuff. So a big g'day to Di, Geoff, Alan and Dave and we hope to catch up again sometime soon. Wish I had taken the camera that night!

After the Albert shows our next gig was a Monday arvo show at the Regent theatre for the Victorian showcase. We were playing on the floor in front of the big screen at the bottom of a great big picture theatre. It was a weird feeling to be playing with your head on a 45 degree angle all night. Then it was off to the chiropractor to get our necks adjusted. We went into the theatre shows with a mixture of acoustic and rocked up numbers, well who's played a picture theatre before? We had no clue what it was going to be like. I have some pics of the theatre which I will throw up this week to give ya'll an idea of what it looked like. Fav moment from theatre shows was watchin Daz get up and drum with the Davidson Brothers - he did us proud!!! Nice work Daz. Not sure if anyone has seen Daz drum as fast a jack hammer before, but now we have.

Before I go any further I want to give a cherio and massive thanks to some people who came along on our trip to watch, help and laugh along with us - Lee & Marie and our very own Rowdy. These guys drove all the way up just to hang with us, and help us lug our gear all around town - we can't thank you guys enough for this and hope you all had as good a time as us! On Wednesday and Thursday night we played on the Steve Forde stage at the Tamworth Rodeo. The huge stage and massive sound was unreal, we loved every second of it. Oh before I forget - we had a surprise visitor too - our good friend Whitey flew up for one night to see us play which was a great treat. Thanks Whitey!!!!!!! On the Wednesday we were called up to play a show at the Longyard Hotel. A band couldn't make it, and we got the call to fill in, and we jumped at it. It was a great show, and a great pub right behind the golden guitar. Hope we can play there again - those small intimate pub corners are always great fun to play. 

I have included a few 'out and about' pics from the trip. The one of Gav trying to eat half a cow leg was quite a site to see (or not see). Gav was up for the 'SSS' steak house 'SUPER SHANK CHALLENGE'. Never seen the man more confident. Never seen the man fail so dismally! Although gotta give him credit as he was fully prepared to stay there till midnight to finish it and get his name on the Shank Challenge wall of fame!