Hi All,
I always have lots of adventures when I am out playing, regardless of the type of gig, some unusual usually happens (oxymoron?). This is the first in a series of blogs I've decided to write. I'm going to carry a camera with me and just try and capture things as they are happenning and report.
Last week I did two gigs for the State Liberal Party. Unfortunately, I couldn't really take photos because there were heaps of security guys with dark glasses and earpieces, talking into their sleeves, that kind of thing. On the first night I wasn't really sure to that I was in the right place because I got to the venue and there was nobody to be seen bar a black cat. Then, I saw this in the carpark:
All those matching Commonwealth cars were a dead giveaway, they had to be close.
And sure enough they weren't far away. It turned out they were all very nice, civilized people. For some reason I thought it would be more debauch with skulling races and people yelling and swearing. Nothing like that at all. They must just save all that for the television cameras when they are in session.
The Minister for Transport and the Member for Jandakot bought CD's. So somebody must have been listening.
I ran into a few of them on the saturday when I was doing my street gig in York. It seemed like they enjoyed their trip up to the country.
It was a quiet saturday, but I was accosted by a drunk woman as I was packing up and loading my stuff in the car (she wasn't with the Liberal Party). I wanted to get a photo of her, but was worried that she wouldn't stay still long enough.
On Sunday, I was out at Baker's Hill. Not much traffic out there, despite the nice day. Then a visit from this dugite:
Only a little foot long one it turns, out but it was lightening quick a probably quite deadly. The tough looking motorcycle club that had pulled up at the time were pretty wary of it. Eventually a sensible person (not me), got hold of a broom and relocated it.
On monday I was out at Baker's again and ran into the Constable Care Crew. They go around to various schools doing a puppet show and were on a country stint. Wish I had have taken photos of that. I've never really had a camera before, so I am not used to taking pictures of everything that I should do.
With time....