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Hey sliders, Mr Wizard here.

I know we've all been bummed out by recent world events and it's getting me down.

So here's some stuff I like to watch because it's ridiculous. Our mate G is over in J-land right down enjoying some live music scene. 

I'm going to see Kyary when she comes out to Sydney soon, her shows are amazing and the song writing is amazing too.

This is a bizarre clip, the sort of stuff that she does well, it's harmless and it's silly and if you could do with a cheerful tune and some dancing spacemen, give it a go.

Keep on slidin'

Mrwiz

Rosie and I went Op Shop Shopping and found that Canberrans are still, at heart, Country Folk.

It's winter, glorious early winter.

The clouds are starting to bring snow to the pointy bits at the right height.

The boys all want summer. I like winter. this is great.

Theo broke down on the way. Bill rescued him.  We did the show. The NRMA sorted the car the following day

Thanks to Bucky and The German Club, and to all the folks who joined us.

We needed to get a place for Theo to stay so we asked Pastor Joe for a cot for him.

Oops.

Gotta work on my terminology.

 Snow Clouds.

Oh Canberra, home to our beloved cultural institutions of the War Museum and...err...The War Museum.

Also something about politicians and democracy and some such. VOTING IS COMPULSORY!!!!!!!

Thinking is not

LOL.

Heh.

Ahem.

Right. Canberra. Friday. ROAD TRIP!!! ROAD TRIP!!! 80's Music on my iPod to drive Rosie nuts? Check. WOOT!

Vote 1 Cellar Fellers!

Howdy Folks - much happening, much off screen.

I was pretty lucky to get to the show on Saturday, I had some family health emergency stuff so it was touch and go. Paul took over rigging the Blacklights so big thanks to Mr Wizard and Sal.

I'm glad I made it. It was a cracker of a night and if you weren't there then you missed out. I'm not kidding. We do analysis on How Did We Do and some nights you are the windshield, some nights you are the bug.

But Saturday night, with the weather holding in abeyance until AFTER we had packed out from the show, was a good session. Rosie played some stuff that was quite remarkable and might never be repeated quite the same way. It was spontaneous and excellent.

I am reminded again and again how lucky we are, how rare and precious this thing we do is. I am also reminded that there are a finite number of times we will do it. Every single one is precious. Every single goddamn one.

What we do, we do with others.

On Saturday night, we were surrounded by people who wanted to participate.

The townie was filled with People inside, taking shelter from the most epic weather to hit Sydney in...well...sorry about that. Our agreement with those forces only covered us until Load Out :-)

Ok so the fact that the most Epic part of the storm didn't come on for a while meant that there were still folks on the streets. Oh you brave brave newtownians.

I have to be briefer. Argh.

I wanted to send a big thank you to Betty, the amazing UV Facepaint artist who joined us on Saturday.

It took a little coaxing to get folks to join in but the result was spectacular.

Sage painted our band sign... 

We played in front of Glowing Zombies, Neon Tigers, Flowers, 'F__K OFF' grafitti on a cheek :-)

It wasn't a gig, it was an art installation with human canvasses set to music.

Yeah i liked it.

I'll post more pics when I get them. I have some stuff to deal with. Meh. 

The place was jumping and we didn't finish until the wee small hours.

Big thanks to Brendon & Hairpin Culvert for joining us, Sal for mixing us, Sage for painting and to Betty for her amazing work.

We all enjoyed that so much we might just do it again.

Meanwhile we're off to Canberra this Friday night at The German Club and I'm back off to the hospital :-)

Ben at Sydney Guitar Setups refurbed the Maton, said it was one of the nicer sounding one's he has heard. More tellingly, Anthony said not to let 'your monkey-boy guitarists touch it'. 

As a Harp player, this instrument has more sentimental value than practical use value for me, but all the String Players who have picked it up have remarked on the tonal quality of the instrument.

It's not a super expensive guitar, now, or back then when it was new, but it has a flavour and that's kind of cool. Here's Mr Wizard trying it out. The overtones and lingering harmonics are impressive.