Break Out Tour - Round One
We've just completed the first leg of our Break Out Tour - and holy shit, what a weekend!
One of the best things about touring is meeting so many awesome people: people in the crowd who came out to support us, people in other bands we played with, and all the other crazy characters we met along the way.
Anyway, here's a blow-by-blow of how it went:
Friday morning started by hauling arse to the Launceston Airport to catch the early flight to Melbourne. We're starting to get used to the crappy airport coffee, and always getting picked for the "random" bomb and drug test - especially me, it must be the red beard?
Anyway, once we hit Melbourne we got our shit together and went out to where we were staying. It's a friends place, and Aaron's place while he's staying in Melbourne. There is one feature of this house that I should probably mention - there is a cat that lives there that looks like a cross between Gollum and a Ren (from Ren and Stimpy), that we affectionately named "Ballsack". Her owner protests that her real name is "Princess", but we think "Ballsack" is more fitting. Anyway, more about this animal later...
We grabbed a Parma and Pint and headed on down to The Old Bar in Fitzroy.
Here's how the night went:
Swhat were amazing as always, Dead Joe (our tour buddies) killed it and Drifter gave our ears some fuzzed out awesomeness (and lent me their amp! Thanks dudes).
Here's a shot couple of shots from our set taken by Desert Highways (legend!):
The place was pretty full, I think there was over 100 or so in there, which is pretty good for the first night of our tour in such a little bar. The rock music scene is so supportive and everyone is so great - oh, and a huge shout out the the My Echo boys for dropping in and sculling beers with us!
After we partied on and drank the rider (and some) we headed back to sleep on the couch, back with Ballsack. We were terrified that Ballsack was going to sit on our heads while we sleep - because, think about it, what's worse than waking up with a ball sack on your face?
Early the next morning we jumped in Aaron's Commodore and started the drive to Adelaide.
After eight or nine hours on the road, sleeping, eating shit from servos and talking about how Ballsack slept on Matty, we rolled into Adelaide.
Now, I don't know if you've been to Hindley Street in Adelaide, but it's a massive melting pot of.. things. Pubs, supermarkets, strip clubs, churches, etc... things that don't normally go together. It was a busy night too. We checked in to our $30-a-night backpackers and walked down to the Enigma Bar.
The show was amazing - it was Dead Joe's turn to headline (because it was their home town) and they absolutly killed it! Oh, and we were blown away by a band called Release the Hounds. You should defiantly check those guys out - awesome dudes and a great sound. Here's their Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/rthbne
After the gig we hit the town (some harder than others... Mitch) and made our way back to the backpackers. It was daylight savings, so 3am became 2am, and because of the 30min time difference in SA, it confused us even more... but in the morning we made it to the airport on time, had my "random" bomb test and headed home.
It was an amazing way to start the tour, we sold a bunch of merch, met some great friends and played some loud music.
Bring on Round 2 in Tassie!
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