HELLO AGAIN....

Its been a while innit! I suppose I’ve just been enjoying the weather while its been good, so that means lots of partying, festivals, barbeque’s etc etc and a few gigs here and there.

Swung thru Sydney for the Days Like This festival with Rhys, Phazes and my flatmate Belle which was mad fun! None of the fluoro, steroid abusing wasteman contingent you get at so many festivals theses days which was a bonus. Probably the best festival I’ve been to in terms of organization and just general enjoyment, just a pity you can’t go to a festival now without there being bare cops everywhere! No matter, we still managed to get what we needed inside. Oh yeah, also caught Al Green for FREE the night before. He played an outdoor show as part of Sydney Festival for thooooousands, how good is that?

All of us looking a little murky at Al Green


Vodka gaffer tapped to thigh hurts when you remove it!

Next up was Hot BBQ down in Portsea where I was hosting Flagrants video set. Now if there ever was a total opposite to Days Like This then Hot BBQ was it! The location was beautiful, right on the coast, but unfortunately it was ridiculously windy that day turning the whole place into a dust storm. The crowd was full of the worst kind of pop tarts, the rider kept running out and the sun fucked off!

Then however we found the 'artist enclosure' and this changed everything! For those that dont know, Point Nepean where the festival is held, is an army barracks of some sort so the artist enclosure was some big compound of barracks right on the sea front which we could only get to via some 4 x 4 golf buggy type thing which was mad fun! No lack of alchohol here either! Lots of amazing food, i had too many steaks and no joke i think it was 18 chocolate eclairs! So when i found a hammock i thought sod this, i'm not going back and instead went to sleep until everyone was ready to drive home.

Next fun thing was a paint party at some warehouse on Little Lonsdale street. No idea what to expect here whatsoever but it ended up being a wicked event and left a few people wanting to hurt me (you deserved everything Soph!)
Rolled up and they gave us all white chemical suits and hospital slippers which we chilled in for a piece while taking advantage of the free bar and hot dogs. Then we were ushered into a completely white room with bar and DJ's and shitloads of buckets of paint everywhere. An alarm went off and we all basically went fucking mad chucking paint everywhere. There were bare chiefs just dabbing you with a paint brush all timid and that so there was only one thing to do but pick up multiple buckets and just start dumping on peoples heads!




Next up was the Summer Innit party in Edinborough Gardens. The last one was sick, this one smashed it! Bare people there, lots of sun, alcohol and big tunes. I did the show with Silkie the night before (which was real good, man is a heavy DJ) and he popped down and spun in the park too alongside the Heavy Innit regulars. Hopefully the sun will allow there to be another one this year.



Anyone that knows me knows i HATE spiders! Took me long enough to jump on a plane to Australia in the first place 'cos i'm so shook on them so you can imagine my horror at being bityten by a goddamn whitetail, in my bedroom of all places!!!

So being the shook one i am i refused to set foot in my bedroom for a week until i had a chance to get someone to do a sweep of the area. This meant sleeping on the couch and watching baaaare movies to get to sleep so here's my brief one line reviews of my January viewing:

The Hangover: If you don’t think this is funny then you should stick sharp things in your wrist

Freddy V Jason: Amazingly terrible film, but loved it all the same

True Romance: For some reason I'd never seen all of this. Thought it was pretty rubbish for the most part although I did fall in love with Patricia Arguette's character

Donkey Punch: Worst acting I've seen in a long while, although the death at the hands of a flare was pretty amazing! Note: The real life Donkey Punch film is pretty horrendous!!!

Platoon: Not as good as I remember as a kid, kinda comical at times too

Harry Brown: Great film, Michael Caine is a badman in this!

Taken: Laim Neeson on a big man ting in this one! The kneecap electrocution is immense!

Apocalypse Now: Tooo long! Wicked film tho, just could have been shorter

Serial Mum: One of my favourite films of the 90’s, watched this bare when I was younger and its still heavy

That was a long post, hopefully i wont neglect the blog so much again but who knows!

Last but not least, check Belle's T-Shirt : )


Shouts to Belle, Tom, Teresa and Huw for the flicks

A CUNNING ENTRANCE

Am i right in thinking tickets for yesterdays Laneway festival were $99? Fuck thats a rip off for something thats pretty damn crappy. Lucky then that we didnt pay :) Spent the day drinking in Section 8 then realised that a mate lives right smack bank in the centre of where the festival takes place so surely theres no way they can stop him and a few mates going round his yard!!!

So we walk up to the entrance, he flashes some ID showing his address, they just wave us through! So we bought a thimble of beer at the extortionate price of $8 before a brain wave hit us. They cant actually stop our mate from walking back and forth through the entrance with whatever the fuck he likes, so he goes on a mission to the bottlo and brings back a bag of long necks, win win win! Everyone around us is getting ripped off with shitty plastic cups after paying a oner to get in and we're sitting back enjoying our free entry and $5 long necks.

Eventually security clocks us, but realises there's not much they can do so just ask us if we wouldnt mind using plastic cups! It was a pretty shit festival though from what we saw, a real wanker fest, but it was funny seeing groups of 14 years olds gurning their chops off in the middle of the city.

Also spotted some idiot over the top cops who were threatening some young girl with pepper spray cos she was getting upset and crying at her boyfriend getting arrested. Seriously dont understand their mentality. You got some 18/19 year old girl in tears obviously upset and scared and then this 40 year old macho fool holding the can to her face screaming at her 'you'll get it next!'. Hope one day he ends up in jail without the benefit of being in the protection wing!