St Andrews gigging marathon

What a tops night at St Andrews on the weekend. It might just have been the longest and most tiring gigging day we’ve had in a while - two afternoon shows and two evening shows at the St Andrews Hotel – but it was awesome fun none the less. You can’t call us lazy, that’s for sure.

The day began quite early when Byll and I made plans to arrive at the market before the first show to hand out flyers to promote it. Byll has never been one to be able to put up posters or hand out flyers for something that she is involved in. Give her posters for another band, no worries; they’ll be up in a flash. But if she is in the band, and more to that is pictured on the poster that she’s putting up, no chance. Its definitely one of those things that you need to be shameless but proud in doing. However, she has no problem in hovering 5 metres behind me while I put them up/hand them out. So the very generous deal that Byll made was that if I handed out all the flyers she would buy me a present. I was happy with that so we continued on.

We began playing early afternoon for what was going to be a marathon of a day and we would like to make some special mentions to some people who made the day so enjoyable. Sisters Ruby, Holy and their legend parents who were definitely some of the best audience members we’ve had. We were delighted to find out that the girls recently took our album in for Show and Tell at school and played the whole album except for track one, hehe (…swear word..) And Chris who relocated his entire house warming party to the St Andrews Hotel for the evening sets, all of whom danced and sang all the words to EVERYTHING and then made us laugh hysterically when called for an encore of ‘Grandma’…..not what you would expect from a rowdy group of twenty something’s…. You guys are all absolute champs and really are the best part about doing music for us. So thank you.

By the end of the night my fingers hurt like hell and our voices had just about disappeared, but gee wiz it was fun. See you soon St Andrews, what a great part of Melbourne.

Beth