Our national tour came to a boozy end last weekend, so we thought it was about time for a bit of a recap. Since we last spoke, we've played shows in Newcastle, Brisbane, Perth and Rockingham.
Jimmy, Rowan and myself made the trip up to
Newcastle the day after the sold-out Horrorshow Sydney album launch, so we were nursing some pretty killer hang overs. We've always had a lot of love for and from Newy so we were mad keen to get up there. This excitement increased manyfold when we found Abbie Cornish at soundcheck, doing her thing with Blades. Us being a bit ignorant of Newcastle hip-hop, we had no idea that she was part of the group. We were really stoked with how the show went, it was great to catch up with a few old friends and the audience seemed to dig the show. After the show, we kept the party going with the Beats Working boys at a house until the wee hours. They had a bit of a makeshift studio set up at this house (complete with electronic drum kit) and we jammed and freestyled for hours. None of us had had that much fun in a very long time. Newcastle was definitely one of the illest experiences we had on the tour, huge shout outs to the Beats Working boys: these fellas are deadset sickcunts.
Brisbane was next, and after the Briz Obese Block Party show earlier in the year we were looking forward to hitting up Brizvegas. It was great to see Pure Product and the Lowdown live, they were both sick. We went on way later than we should have, and we ended up playing to a fairly empty, big room - it wasn't exactly our finest hour. Still, we dealt with it like anyone else would have: drank the shit out of our bar tab and partied until our hellish 7am flight to Perth. No sleep til Brooklyn..
After more hours than one should really be spending on domestic flights on no sleep (Briz to Sydney, Sydney to Perth), we got to
Perth . We'd never been to WA before and had heard great things, and the show was another one of our favourites. We still hadn't slept but the feeling of being in a completely new city and having people there know the words and get into the music was unreal. We linked up with some friends over there and got treated to some Western hospitality, Perth is the illest. The show wasn't packed to the rafters, but everyone that was there got into the music and we had a ball.
Rockingham was the following night, it's about 40 minutes out of Perth. Again, the crowd was looking a little bit depleted but it ain't never been nothing to a boss, we did our thing and enjoyed it. Outside in the beer garden, a young Western Australian man was silly enough to challenge Joyride to a skulling contest. He was swiftly defeated; Dixy can pour alcohol down his throat faster than anyone I've ever met. We had to catch a flight at 12:30 that night, so we had to bounce pretty soon after playing.
In short, the tour was a shitload of fun. The shows weren't sell-outs by any measure, but playing music that we wrote in our bedrooms about 2 years ago to crowds in different cities is an amazing feeling, regardless of how big they are. Cannot wait to do it again sometime soon.
PEACE- SS.
