Saturday, June 11, 2005

more alice weirdness

Last night produced some more evidence for the case that Alice Springs is built on a point of confluence of powerful universal forces (like wow, man)...

It rained heavily in Alice for the first time in a year
This had to happen on the night we were booked to play in the open air on a restaurant rooftop. The sound system had to be turned off, so we huddled under the awning with the audience and played them a few songs from behind the bar. We did every song we know that mentions rain - Raining On Our Parade was a particular hit. Everyone ended up having a lot of fun.

NoKTuRNL played support for us
If you don't know who these guys are, you need to either listen to more triplej or visit their website. These guys are serious famous. and normally Very Loud. They were playing last night under an assumed name so as not to alert their minders and fans to the fact that they were playing a nice little acoustic gig in their home town

Another duo featured a local Lutheran minister on lead vocals
The Super Raelene Brothers are actually siblings, unlike the Flying Burrito Brothers. Two fine local musos with political yet funky songs - they even sang Leon Rosselson's World Turned Upside Down. One of them works for the Greens, and we had met him earlier in the day at the Bob Brown thing. The other turns out to be a Lutheran minister. I want to be in his church!

I met a friend from high school...
... and we both recognised eachother. Turns out Astri has been living and working in the centre for 10 years or so.
Then to add freakiness to weirdness- after another two or three hours, Christina says "Oh - I know HER!" Turns out they worked together on a project a little while back, but only ever talked on the phone.

We met two women who had never heard of Senator Bob Brown
Of course, they both work at Pine Gap, so I guess they don't move in those circles. But how weird is it that we have fans from Pine Gap?

We got offered a free trip to Uluru next time we visit
The owner of a tour company was at the gig, and was impressed by how unflappable we were in the face of inevitable electrocution.

Today we go on another explore around town, before another gig at The Lane tonight - lets see what adventures this one holds...

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi!

Just wanted to let you know that a few folks from the trade union chioire in Adelaide now know Cake, and the two rounds you taught us last week. Continuing the tradition of everyone liking to eat cake and if they can't eat it, sing about it!

Joy

10:16 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You want to be in Pastor Basil's church well you should join and then perhaps he can turn his wandering eyes to you and leave my girlfriend alone

3:37 am  

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