Descend Here reunion show >:-)
Burgers of Beef during soundcheck (left to right: The cuteness of Blainie, some guy I think is Blainie’s B/F, Chad and Pete. Dee is behind the B/F guy). I only took a couple of photos last night - there’s one more on Flickr, but it’s just a blurrier version of the same thing. I think Liz has some better ones, but she hasn’t put them up yet.
So the show was pretty good. Pretty damn good actually. Lots of nice people showed up and we played without making too many mistakes. Tomas was good at his stuff and kept people interested even during the slow songs - he even smashed a computer keyboard in his usual Hendrix-smashing-a-guitar kinda way, which was a bit “aww, old times!” for me. Oh, and I think I did some okay rock moves as well.
The support band Burgers of Beef rocked as usual, despite the average sound system. Wade apparently liked them a lot, so we think they should market themselves to Tenacious D fans. I also scored a Burgers of Beef badge with a cartoon Blainie on it from their merch collection, so now I can wear the cuteness of Blainie whenever I want.
The best bit of the night, though, was just hanging out with so many cool people - plenty of friends, plus a bunch of people we know from the “Perth joke bands c. 2000-2004″ milieu, and the internet people like Liz and Sky. It was some awesome fun. Like I said before, it was better than most of the shows we played when we were a real band. Ah!
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Where did that black dot come from…?
Comment by Mark — Monday February 26 2007 @ 4:10 pm
I’m sure your show was tops and everything but I have a totally unrelated question. As a former inhabitant of Enmorial regions so you ever miss the cloudy days when it sounds like the planes are going to crash into your building or maybe the one next door..?
Comment by nailpolishblues — Monday February 26 2007 @ 4:40 pm
My place was never that bad for plane noise. I think it came from being a little too far to the east being on the bottom floor with one small window. Now that you mention it though, it was crap when the planes were loud.
Comment by Mark — Monday February 26 2007 @ 4:51 pm
Are you serious about the black dot or are you testing the listless out there?
Comment by Switch — Monday February 26 2007 @ 5:02 pm
One is always serious about black dots!
It’s a bit scary actually, sometimes.
Comment by nailpolishblues — Monday February 26 2007 @ 5:07 pm
No, I’m serious. One line below the post there’s a random black dot. I’m using Firefox for a pentium-based Apple, and it sometimes screws things up, but this is a consistent thing. I don’t get it.
Comment by Mark — Monday February 26 2007 @ 5:07 pm
See?
Comment by nailpolishblues — Monday February 26 2007 @ 5:20 pm
Well, to help matters none, it doesn’t even show up in Opera.
Comment by Switch — Monday February 26 2007 @ 7:05 pm
Nice pic. Glad to hear it went so well.
Comment by James — Monday February 26 2007 @ 9:01 pm
Sounds like you had fun. Any more Descend Here plans?
BTW - Is the guy in the checked shirt picking the guitarist’s nose?
Comment by Ross — Monday February 26 2007 @ 10:38 pm
Maybe that’s who flicked that black spot on the end of the post.
Comment by Switch — Monday February 26 2007 @ 10:50 pm
Nails & Ethan - Looking at the code, I realised that for some reason there’s a list item tag there with no content that’s causing that dot to appear. It’s a dot point with no words beside it, in other words. I don’t know how it came to be there though…
Ross - Nah, no more plans. The dude was holding the mic while the venue staff tried to find another mic stand.
Comment by Mark — Tuesday February 27 2007 @ 1:48 pm
James - Yep, it was good fun. Ta!
Comment by Mark — Tuesday February 27 2007 @ 1:56 pm
I tried to comment with links to some pictures, but I think it said I was too much like spam! I’ll email them to you instead.
Comment by boofuls — Tuesday February 27 2007 @ 2:46 pm
I reiterate the earlier found quirk: “or are you testing the listless out there?”
Comment by Switch — Tuesday February 27 2007 @ 7:06 pm
I’ll drop my SPAM filter settings.
Comment by Mark — Thursday March 1 2007 @ 2:14 pm