Used to play with a workmate of mine up here in Townsville for about 3 years, acoustic covers, nothing overly hard (fooeys, powderfinger,greend day, oasis, fuel, tonic) but we were sick of seeing everything up here being either Cold Chisel cover bands or clowns playing to a backing track on a lap top, we thought we would could do better so we put our $$$ where our mouths were and gave it a go.
We used to play at about 7 different pubs, about 2-3 gigs a week varying from 3 hours to 4 hours........(4 hours were f$%king killer) was a good supplement for our RAAF wages. New Years 2004-2005 we opened for James Reyne up here on the Strand to about 2k people. We left our guitar stands on stage and to this day reckon the old prick is using them the tight ass ;-) good times. One funny moment was seeing 2 ugly lesbians going toe to toe in front of us, we both stopped playing as it was a pretty decent blue. I thought I would lighten the mood and I started playing the "Deliverance" banjo theme..............the bouncers and the crowd of about 80 were pissing themselves laughing as they dragged the 2 carpet munchers out of the joint.
