Friday night:
Watch Kevin and Nick's other band Mink Mussel Creek play in Perth. Get home ~ 2:30 am Sat morning.
Saturday:
4:30 am : Get picked up by Jodie en route to the airport.
6:30 am : Catch flight to Brisbane (about 5 and a half hour flight from Perth). No sleep.
2pm : Arrive at Brisbane (there's a 2 hour time diff). Begin drive to Byron Bay.
4:30pm : Arrive at Byron. Go straight to studio near Byron to see if we wanna record there. We don't.
5:30pm : Go straight from studio to venue. Load in. Sound check.
7:30pm: Manage to change clothes and underpants. Thank god.
11:30pm: Play show (sold out woohoo!) in Byron bay.
Sunday
1am : Pack up shit into van. Have a few post gig drinks.
2:30 am: Go to bed.
4:30 am: Rudely awoken by Jodie banging down our door.
5am: Begin drive back to Brisbane airport:
7:30am : Catch flight back to Perth.
11am: Arrive Perth airport.
12pm: Arrive at In the Pines, a festival we're playing at that night.
2:30pm: Pond, Gumby and Nicks side project play in the early afternoon.
4:00pm. Manage to have first shower since Friday!
8:30pm: Play show. Manage to somehow get through it without dying from lack of sleep/energy.
11pm: Foolishly decide to go back to friends house with the other guys to drink/party.
Monday
2am: Get a lift home. Crawl into bed. Oh god. I love my bed.
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Legendary! I'm impressed. My kidneys hurt just reading that.
ReplyDeleteThis is just the warm up!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's about to get way more hectic but the level of fun equals it out!!!
My advice- sparkling water on IV drip and vitamin C!!!!
oh i can deal with the shows every day and no sleep. it was the perth-brisbane-perth consecutive flights that destroyed me.
ReplyDeletecheck out this photo from in the pines of nick, totally unfair how awesome the ponytail looks on him.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fizzybish/3478344159/
He could wear a bin bag and pull it off.
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