tote hotel, mebourne with lung upc, seedy three, deep where all drown
the weather has been kind in melbourne and today is about 30 degrees and we’re eating breakfast in the backyard before a quick check out of the city with some cd shopping, coffee, mailing, coffee, trams and coffee.
we figure out how to squeeze all the gear and all the band in the van and a dumbass parking inspector decides we need a ticket as we unload. the evening and night seems to timewarp as we either wait for things to happen and then everything happens too fast.
we miss soundcheck because we’re eating some nice indian food and before we know it lung upc are up and on stage playing some nice droney psyche with big riffs.
seedy three rock like cowboy motherfuckers though be careful not to call them that, for your mom’s sake.
limited express hit the stage and rock out in their usual way – it’s hard to gauge the audience reaction as i’m videoing them but everyone seems enthusiastic during the breaks.
around song five jj discovers the wonder of technical problems and the usual active express is stuck at the station as things get sorted out. it gives yukari a chance to interact with the audience at least. things get rolling again but another song later and jj gives it away while yukari and koji noisily end the set – short, sweet and fucked up.
despite the problems and kinda subdued audience reaction many people come up later and buy cd’s, chat to the band and we all ask them to come and see ‘special show time’ again and promise no problems.
apparently this is the first time ever they’ve had any problems. we’ll sort out the gear in the morning and make sure it’s all ok – and also make sure to get a soundcheck from now on!
kudos to the guy who turned up late and missed the set but bought a cd anyway.
oh yeah – before i forget, deep where all drown finished off the night with some really good hard assed in your face rock – check them out!
koji – “melbourne is a very stylish city – melbourne people are good – kawaii”
jj – “i’m surprised – there’s a nice music scene. many customers grow up to be musicians”
yukari – “i’m sorry that i couldn’t give everybody a good gig, but so happy people came even though they have to work tomorrow”
1994ever 