Nash night time adventures

Last weekend’s visit to Geelong was full of surprises. We played at the National Hotel, a venue in Geelong that definitely has a slightly rough but cool vibe to it and one we haven’t played for a couple of years at least. So coming back brought back early memories of one particular night that saw us try to rock out with only an acoustic guitar, shaker and djembe to a bunch of old leather wearing, long bearded, scary looking bikers, who would have squashed us with one finger. Luckily, Byll somehow ended up charming them with her banter by starting up an on stage conversation with them which led them to even buying a few cd’s…Phew! Turned out they had quite a sensitive side under their intimidating exterior, so we ended up friends and shook farewell.

Now being a louder four-piece we feel much more confident when finding ourselves in similar situations. But Saturday was nothing like that classic gig that I speak of. This time it was quite different indeed, the room full of upbeat, happy, excited people who danced and clapped and sang along. Thank you hugely to The Evening Cast and Luke Legs for joining us for the evening and making it such an enjoyable night. We also must make special mention to our amazing sound engineer, Jono, who arrived a good two hours earlier than the rest of us to make sure the PA was sounding schmick, but then didn’t quite follow out his plan when he locked his keys in his car which had all the gear in it. After a couple of hours of Jono standing in the winter cold, we arrived to the rescue with some miniature novelty keys that went with our miniature novelty harmonica’s that have been on our key rings since America. Between the mini keys and some fine coat hanger work from a friend who obviously hadn’t broken into a car for the first time that night, we managed to retrieve all that we needed to play the show.

We had a great time playing and cheers to every dancer who hit the dance floor and waved their arms for the entirety of the show. See you next time G-town.

Beth