April so far...

(above) Getting monged in Alice Springs

So its "Pauly K's blog" now is it? That's become a thing. Rather than just "The Blog what everyone else is too lazy to do". Well the last few weeks have certainly been busy ones, we met many fantastic people and some new fans both young and old at Bluesfest 2010, whom we hope to see at some of our upcoming shows. Thanks to all for coming to say gday and making the merch tent signing less awkward than it otherwise would have been. In all the confusion we were even asked to sign an Old Crow Medicine Show album, which I would choose to take as a compliment.

Having the honour of supporting the Avett Brothers in Sydney town was most definitely a career highlight for myself and Mr Wishbone. Brooklyn, Brooklyn, take me in.

Last week we travelled to Alice Springs, incidentally the furthest from our beloved city i've ever been. James from Universal let us get room service and beers on his credit card, another career highlight. We ate the shit out of some overpriced ala carte and cheese platters. Due to our short stay there we didn't really get to see the sights, bit sad to travel all the way to Alice Springs without seeing Uluru, but we did get to partake in some off-road action driving "techniques" courtesy of Rusty B and a borrowed 4WD.

From there we headed to Adelaide where, do you know sir, Coopers actually costs more than it does in Sydney? WTF? and if you order a schooner, you get a middy. If you want a schooner, you have to order a pint. If you want a pint, you have to kick some fucking heads. We got slightly monged on coopers red at least one night.

We also spent a couple days shooting some scenes for the movie 'Red Dog' which we will be in for about 10 seconds playing in the background of a bar fight scene. Only time will tell if it joins the ranks of such celebrated antipodean classics as Breaker Morant, Shine, and Crackerjack.

I tell you what though, Adelaide people know how to rock the party. We played with The Beards, Tracer, Kirk Special and Ride into The Sun, Adelaidians are totally into live music and a paragon for the rest of the nation in terms of being willing to check shit out, get monged, and have a good time. We had a fantastic time there. Then we went to Glenelg.

This Friday (23rd April) we're supporting the awesome Mojo Juju & The Snake Oil Merchants at the Cambridge in Newcastle, then on Saturday we are doing the same at the Red Rattler in Marrickville. Incidentally this is not far from my house so perhaps beers and getting monged in my backyard afterwards! The next day is Anzac day where we celebrate our fighting men and women by getting completely monged. YAY

Pauly K

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