'Studio Artes' @ Hornsby Tafe

To cut a long story short, Claire's maths teacher asked her to get some people together to play at an art exhibition at Hornsby TAFE. Now, Claire happened to have a totally rad band up her sleeve.

So we lugged our car-full of gear up to hornsby for a fun night. I got a new amp, so that added significantly to the weight! I'd say we had 70kg of stuff, what with 2 amps, bass, guitar, sax, music stand, a table to put our cards on, and assorted music books.

Yet again, we ended up in a big room with a wooden floor and a high ceiling, and an echo of which the blue mountains would be proud. But once it filled with nice happy spongey sound-absorbing people, the acoustics were great. We played from 6 til 7:30, then 8:10 til just before 9. We seem to have accumulated a bit more material since our last gig, so we almost didn't have to repeat anything!

I wish I took a camera. There was a girl about 10m in front of us when we were playing Chameleon, who started dancing with her friend.. What a party! And I noticed another girl [who i actually know] dancing with her boyfriend during one of our more romantic songs. I figured we must be alright if we made people dance! Alas, we have no photos. But here are some more from the Galerie D'art:

More Gigs!

Well, our first REAL gig went very well. We played at the Galerie D'art in Woolloomooloo. There was an art exhibiton as part of the 'musicfest de sydney'. It's a big music festival, originating in france, to celebrate the summer solstice. And here it's obviously on the shortest, darkest, most bleak day of the year :p
Here's the website:
www.musicfest.org.au

And here's a pic of us in action:
Anyway. It was good, we managed to play for the required length of time, and the sound was ok. Although I was a little worried at first, given that the floors were tiled and there was a high roof, nice and echo-ey.

Our next gig is tomorrow. Yet again, unpaid. But oh well, it's good publicity! Hornsby TAFE at 6:30-9pm. There's an art exhibition of some description. So yeah that should be alright. I'll put some pics up if we get any. I'm not sure whether our photographer will be there!