Dear Diary,
Sometimes late at night when I’m alone writing to you I like to think that I’m writing a book….. is that weird?? I had the best night sleep last night….. like 9 hours… it was amazing!!! Yet still I feel like shit…. Is that bad… meh.. I’m cool with it.
We played in woolonggngnong… I think that’s how you spell it… I thought it was a good show… the crowd was fairly small at the start but it swelled to massive (kinda big) proportions by the end of the set and when we played the last song (evolution) peeps were bopping and moving n whatnot… when the vasco era played Sukkafish two thirds of the band joined them… me an scott played horns, ross hit shit with sticks and luke played ambient guitar… by the end of the tour we’re aiming to have a 17 piece orchestra with us… well I am at least… I think the idea will fail like most half assed ideas I have along the lines of this… but I’m a dreamer so I will continue to dream…
Yesterday me an tim did an interview for What you Want on Channel V… it was pretty fun… I didn’t know what to expect… I think it airs today at around 4:30… but I’ve been known to be wrong before….. my personal highlight was finding a bottle of wine in the fridge… naturally I helped myself to a glass… then found out from the lovely make up lady that it was Merrick and Rosso’s… you know the two dudes who are hilarious… one doesn’t have a beard… the other one does… then sometimes he doesn’t… then sometimes he grows it back… it was delicious… tasted like stealing. And I do love stealing (I Don’t… really mum I don’t)
The other dudes in the band (scott, jesus and pat, that little dude) flew into Sydney at 1:30… due to us being delayed at Channel V (that’s what we told them) they had to wait for 3 hours at the airport…. I don’t know what they are complaining about… I’ve had to do that heaps of times…. Mainly when I miss my flights…. The secret is to fall asleep on the floor in an unused terminal and then wake up an hour or 2 later to find a whole bunch of people waiting for a flight….. the next thing you do is sit up, rub your eyes and then shake your head with a confused look on your face…. Grin nervously at the people close to you then get your stuff and stumble away…. Mission accomplished.
After we picked them up and Neil the awesome sound dude with the vasco era we drove to woolongngongnshdlkjghghaong…. Somehow made it in time… without speeding (honest mum I don’t speed)
After the show we drove back to Sydney…. I was in the back of the van…. I love sitting in the back… you can’t hear what peeps in the front are saying and misunderstand basic statements that they make ending in hilarious jokes…. For me mainly… mostly cause I think I’m hilarious (I do Mum….. honestly I do (not really (but seriously im hilarious))
Tonight we play the metro in Sydney…. I cannot wait…. Theres going to be a whole lot of awesome (I sure hope theres a lot of awesome)…. I promise.
Anywho… must go face the day and the sun and prolly get sunburnt walking about 30 metres…. I love having fair skin and red hair.
Love Pete
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
I missed a plane to Adelaide....
Dear Diary,
Day something of this tour…. My mind is willing but my body is weak…. Or is it the other way round…. Ive had the same amount of sleep as a polygamous dude with 5 wives…. And all of them have babies under a year and a half…. Ilene even has twins… and they do not stop crying!!! Going back…. Back….. back….. to Friday… it seems like it was so long ago… like a week ago n shit…. On Friday like a week n shit ago we played at the Hi Fi Bar in Melbourne… I love that place but the stairs getting down is a bitch to lug gear down…. Show was awesome…. Everything in my memory right now is awesome… Scott an I played horns when the Vasco Era covered Sukkafish… was so much fun…. Like swingset fun… I do love a good swingset…. I don’t even mind that the song is in my head almost 24/7. we signed a contract in blood that we will play it with them for the rest of the tour…. I cant wait. When the Grates played their last song… NINETEEN TWENTY TWENTY NINETEEN TWENTY TWENT backstage was an absolute shambles…. There was no way to tell who was a Vasco Era and who was a John Steel…. There was dancing, there was a pile on….. I pushed Luke’s head into the ice tub that once held our rider… he loved it. I got about 2 hours sleep cause we had to drive to Avalon airport real early to catch a flight back to Brisbane so we could play at Sounds of Spring…. When we arrived I got all these looks from people…. You know the looks that say “Dude…. You look like shit!” When that comes from other bands you know you look bad…. Still the show was awesome… was so much fun… was all worried bout the weather… it was all cloudy and raining slightly… mother nature failed at dampening anyones mood tho… she was all like “Take this!!” and everyone was like “Bring it mthrfkr!!! I’m still going to dance!”
I missed my flight down to Adelaide…. Mainly because I woke up 15 minutes before I was supposed to board the plane….…. Caught a cab… the cabbie was a dick(he wasn’t)… he kept on making fun of me for being late…. In my haste to pack my bags (grab a whole bunch of shit off my floor an throw it in my suitcase) I managed to have “epic packing fail” (direct quote from Laura K)…. I didn’t bring a towel…. Toiletries or socks… I did bring a beanie which I didn’t know I had and a sweet Russian hat… I may or may not have used a bed sheet as a towel at the backpackers we stayed at.
The show in Radelaide was all kinds of awesome…. I must apologise to the grates for the racket we caused backstage… will explain all that later…. The show was good but we had a bit of feed back problems… I blame Pat… mainly cause I don’t like his face (I do like his face)
Now I shall address the noise problem… In a shear stroke of genius I may have invented the most awesome/retarded piece of drinking equipment…. Its called the Trom-Bong… Tim came up with the name…. it is exactly what it sounds like… kinda…. A beer bong thru my trombone…. It worked a treat… probably the proudest moment of my life except for the Bender costume I made for a fancy dress party once. So while the Grates were rocking the socks off Adelaide we were backstage chanting “Trom-Bong Trom-Bong Trom-Bong Trom-Bong!!!!!” and drinking our rider in about 20 minutes…. Sorry!!!
The next day me tim an ross hired bikes and rode around Adelaide all day… was all kinds of enjoyable…. Tim punched a seagull and ross got like 3 feet of air.
Love Pete
Day something of this tour…. My mind is willing but my body is weak…. Or is it the other way round…. Ive had the same amount of sleep as a polygamous dude with 5 wives…. And all of them have babies under a year and a half…. Ilene even has twins… and they do not stop crying!!! Going back…. Back….. back….. to Friday… it seems like it was so long ago… like a week ago n shit…. On Friday like a week n shit ago we played at the Hi Fi Bar in Melbourne… I love that place but the stairs getting down is a bitch to lug gear down…. Show was awesome…. Everything in my memory right now is awesome… Scott an I played horns when the Vasco Era covered Sukkafish… was so much fun…. Like swingset fun… I do love a good swingset…. I don’t even mind that the song is in my head almost 24/7. we signed a contract in blood that we will play it with them for the rest of the tour…. I cant wait. When the Grates played their last song… NINETEEN TWENTY TWENTY NINETEEN TWENTY TWENT backstage was an absolute shambles…. There was no way to tell who was a Vasco Era and who was a John Steel…. There was dancing, there was a pile on….. I pushed Luke’s head into the ice tub that once held our rider… he loved it. I got about 2 hours sleep cause we had to drive to Avalon airport real early to catch a flight back to Brisbane so we could play at Sounds of Spring…. When we arrived I got all these looks from people…. You know the looks that say “Dude…. You look like shit!” When that comes from other bands you know you look bad…. Still the show was awesome… was so much fun… was all worried bout the weather… it was all cloudy and raining slightly… mother nature failed at dampening anyones mood tho… she was all like “Take this!!” and everyone was like “Bring it mthrfkr!!! I’m still going to dance!”
I missed my flight down to Adelaide…. Mainly because I woke up 15 minutes before I was supposed to board the plane….…. Caught a cab… the cabbie was a dick(he wasn’t)… he kept on making fun of me for being late…. In my haste to pack my bags (grab a whole bunch of shit off my floor an throw it in my suitcase) I managed to have “epic packing fail” (direct quote from Laura K)…. I didn’t bring a towel…. Toiletries or socks… I did bring a beanie which I didn’t know I had and a sweet Russian hat… I may or may not have used a bed sheet as a towel at the backpackers we stayed at.
The show in Radelaide was all kinds of awesome…. I must apologise to the grates for the racket we caused backstage… will explain all that later…. The show was good but we had a bit of feed back problems… I blame Pat… mainly cause I don’t like his face (I do like his face)
Now I shall address the noise problem… In a shear stroke of genius I may have invented the most awesome/retarded piece of drinking equipment…. Its called the Trom-Bong… Tim came up with the name…. it is exactly what it sounds like… kinda…. A beer bong thru my trombone…. It worked a treat… probably the proudest moment of my life except for the Bender costume I made for a fancy dress party once. So while the Grates were rocking the socks off Adelaide we were backstage chanting “Trom-Bong Trom-Bong Trom-Bong Trom-Bong!!!!!” and drinking our rider in about 20 minutes…. Sorry!!!
The next day me tim an ross hired bikes and rode around Adelaide all day… was all kinds of enjoyable…. Tim punched a seagull and ross got like 3 feet of air.
Love Pete
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Going on The Grates tour!!
Dear Diary,
I now completely understand why people think dolphins are kick ass. I recently watched some youtube clip where dolphins blow air rings from their blow holes…. It totally kicks ass… like Eric Roberts kicks ass….. and that’s a whole lot of kick ass…. Did you know that Eric Roberts is in the smash hit show “Heroes” where seemingly ordinary people have extra-ordinary “abilities”…. Apparently Eric Roberts has the “ability” to kick a crippling cocaine habit right in the teeth. That’s not his only “ability,” he also will never fucking die!!! Ever! Which is an awesome premise I think every generation to come needs Eric Roberts…
Imagine theres no Eric Roberts….
Its easy if you try….
No fil’ums such as Freefall
The thought just makes me cry
Imagine all the people who didn’t see him kick ass….
Oooooooh ooh ooooh
I have no idea why they don’t let me write lyrics.
News for you diary you bitch. On Monday, like Monday just gone we (the band) were in a studio in Albion of sunny Brisbane filming a clip for Rainbow Kraut our soon to be released single… it could of all ready been released to radio I’m not sure… I’m hardly ever let out of my cage… but this one time I talked to a girl.... and she touched me in the face with her open palm…. It was all done on blue screen, I’m expecting most of it to be me flying over pretty cities n shit and maybe fighting a three thousand year old warlord from Japan. (see how I changed what I think the script for the latest mummy film is and making the idea my own there by changing China to Japan)
We were joined by Laura K, (find her on myspace) her and Maggie were there to look pretty…. Pretty fuckin sweet that is…. My favourite kind of sweets is most definitely snickers bars…. And not just because they have Mr T in the ads…. I pity that foo’ My favourite was the ones with the extra nuts… I don’t think they make them any more which is a crime against humanity…. I heard that Mr G. T. Morenuts sued them for using his likeness. He had a case because he looked like a giant slab of poo on legs…. If you would like to sign my real life (made up) petition asking Mr G. T. Morenuts to let snickers start producing snickers more nuts bars go to (don’t go to) www.iwantmorenuts.com.au
On Thursday (may be today… depends on when I could be bothered to post this) we play our first show of the massive Grates tour…. I have been preparing what I’m going to say when I meet them…. I’ve written some jokes just for the occasion… here’s just a taste…. What did the beer bottle say to the beer…… Get outta my head!!! Lol…. Lmao…. Omg ftw…. That was fkn awsm imho…. Im down with all that net speak like a mother bitch.
We play a whole heap of shows thru October with them and the Vasco Era its going to be Grate… did you get that one diary??? Im going to drop that somehow in casual conversation with someone next time I get out of my cage… maybe I could make a girl laugh.
I have to return some video tapes.
Love Pete
I now completely understand why people think dolphins are kick ass. I recently watched some youtube clip where dolphins blow air rings from their blow holes…. It totally kicks ass… like Eric Roberts kicks ass….. and that’s a whole lot of kick ass…. Did you know that Eric Roberts is in the smash hit show “Heroes” where seemingly ordinary people have extra-ordinary “abilities”…. Apparently Eric Roberts has the “ability” to kick a crippling cocaine habit right in the teeth. That’s not his only “ability,” he also will never fucking die!!! Ever! Which is an awesome premise I think every generation to come needs Eric Roberts…
Imagine theres no Eric Roberts….
Its easy if you try….
No fil’ums such as Freefall
The thought just makes me cry
Imagine all the people who didn’t see him kick ass….
Oooooooh ooh ooooh
I have no idea why they don’t let me write lyrics.
News for you diary you bitch. On Monday, like Monday just gone we (the band) were in a studio in Albion of sunny Brisbane filming a clip for Rainbow Kraut our soon to be released single… it could of all ready been released to radio I’m not sure… I’m hardly ever let out of my cage… but this one time I talked to a girl.... and she touched me in the face with her open palm…. It was all done on blue screen, I’m expecting most of it to be me flying over pretty cities n shit and maybe fighting a three thousand year old warlord from Japan. (see how I changed what I think the script for the latest mummy film is and making the idea my own there by changing China to Japan)
We were joined by Laura K, (find her on myspace) her and Maggie were there to look pretty…. Pretty fuckin sweet that is…. My favourite kind of sweets is most definitely snickers bars…. And not just because they have Mr T in the ads…. I pity that foo’ My favourite was the ones with the extra nuts… I don’t think they make them any more which is a crime against humanity…. I heard that Mr G. T. Morenuts sued them for using his likeness. He had a case because he looked like a giant slab of poo on legs…. If you would like to sign my real life (made up) petition asking Mr G. T. Morenuts to let snickers start producing snickers more nuts bars go to (don’t go to) www.iwantmorenuts.com.au
On Thursday (may be today… depends on when I could be bothered to post this) we play our first show of the massive Grates tour…. I have been preparing what I’m going to say when I meet them…. I’ve written some jokes just for the occasion… here’s just a taste…. What did the beer bottle say to the beer…… Get outta my head!!! Lol…. Lmao…. Omg ftw…. That was fkn awsm imho…. Im down with all that net speak like a mother bitch.
We play a whole heap of shows thru October with them and the Vasco Era its going to be Grate… did you get that one diary??? Im going to drop that somehow in casual conversation with someone next time I get out of my cage… maybe I could make a girl laugh.
I have to return some video tapes.
Love Pete
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