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It's the tour blog, part 3! So where were we? 

Right. the previous night I bailed out and left the guys at the festival whilst I went in search of snoozy time.

I woke up at the Blackhawks Trail Lodge beside the rock river, in Illinois.

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I was in need of some Zen, join me.

Ahh so peaceful.

I am a fan of Becky's eclectic decorations.

At the festival, Gary and Gayle from the Original Smokehouse BBQ in Rockford, Illinois, invited us for Soul Food Sunday. That was a must.

See the vid for more on that

 

Afterwards, we returned to the Blackhawks Trail Lodge and decided to rehearse Push Me Away from you, ahead of the planned recording with Danny Cox in Kansas City in 10 days.

 

Now I may be combining a couple of days events here so forgive me.

We were close to Byron, Illinois, a sleepy little town with some crazy Art Deco Architecture ( Me Gusta mucho!)

The VFW where we played last year.

 

Now we can honestly say we've played Byron ;-)

Of course, life on the road does have it's glamourous side.

Such as the local laundromat.

The band doesn't concern themselves with such mundane affairs. They have 'people' for that. They stuck their clothes in the machine and wandered off.

I am that people. Those people. I mean it was me. I folded Rosie's dainties. There. I said it. What goes on tour.

All right here's some vid.

To come:

- bad weather precedes us

- They're so polite in wisconsin!

- Heading for Indy

Howdoo folks!

I have El Buncho of blog stuff from the tour to post, but firstly, the weekends reports.

Cheers to Jack Millar for joining us at the Townie on Saturday. He was great. Get out and see him.

Late show, we didn't start until just after 11pm and went through until 2:30am.

Take that Jetlag!

Of course the two back to back cups of strong cappuccino that I drank before the fist set may have given me a panic attack by song 3,  but what the heck, nothing unusual.

And of course, far be it from us to trade on our recent O/S tour for marketing purposes.

Nope, not us.

We would hardly mention our 2 TOURS OF THE USA, USA, USA!! (cough, choke splutter), that's because Australians never judge local acts by whether people overseas think they're any good. Nope. Not a bit of it.

Did I mention our next O/S tour?

I was a bit shaky to start the set but we warmed up by set two and we were in excellent sonic hands. thanks Sal. Having Jo with us is always a bonus as well. We even got to do the new song we wtoe for Jo, Push me Away, and I can sing it, but I can't sing it like DC Bellamy sings it in the Kansas City recording (sigh)....Oh I forgot you haven't heard it yet, Sorry, Dear Reader, the blog from the recording day with Jo & DC will be out in a few days and the song should be ready for release...err...shortly, so stay tuned.

Anyway, speaking of recording...nope hang on more pics.

2:30am and theyre still dancing, in spite of AFL Grand final, ARL Football Semi Final and a Festival down the street.

Cheers to Sal, and I spotted our Psychedelic Psychonaut in the audience (dude glad to see you're still with us), cheers to Hugo for coming out so late and welcome back Sydney. We missed ya.

Right. So after getting home at 4am, still recovering a little from our recent TRIP INTO SPACE...no hang on, that was Big Bang Theory....err

Ok. we went and recorded again the following day.We're just fools for studio time.

BTW...

WTF is Theo doing here?

We got Rock river in the can. Yep, just to remind ya, here's the guide track:

and here's some stuff from the recording session.

 

Well done to Jo and the Lads for extra credit effort and big thanks to Ben at the wonderful Everland studios for giving up his Sunday time to record it.

I'm listening to the desk mix and digging it. That's one of the benefits of being on my side of the screen, I get to hear all the stuff before it gets released.

We have two mixes to finish and release, a bunch more video footage from the don't-mention-the-tour thing. Stay tuned for more random fun.

Howdy!

Yes indeed we are back. Many, many photos to be sorted through. Here are some music makin' pics to start off with.

Enjoy,

Rosie

Festival at Bloomington, Indiana:

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The Phoenix Tavern at Fort Wayne, Indiana - that's Bill Lupkin sitting in with us:

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Rockford, Illinois - post-festival:

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More to come!

Cheers,

Rosie

 

 

Howdy Folks.

Yep Part 2. Short. Sweet. I fell asleep.

yeah, travel, jetlag, gig the night before and the next day I snuck outta the back of the fest and took a nap.

Hard core party animals that they are, the boys and Jo stayed. they can blog the other acts. I got to see Rev Raven and take a lesson from Joe Filisko.

All good.

Pics then vid. the usual.

Day Whatever it was

The pack. Always the pack

After a big night at the Old Town we were up in the later am to get on the road. We had ample time to spare.

Even time to stop for road snax.

Now the GPS says South Bend Road is here somewhere

Somewhere

HELLLLLPP!!!

With time ticking down, GPS helplessness, no phone coverage and no arrows on the festival signs, we had a slight Mutiny over directions.

A certain Dutch contingent tried to get the GPS to walk the plank.

Rosie tried asking the locals.

I held out vain hopes for T-Mobile phone coverage.

30 minutes before the festival was due to start with us as the opening act.

OH NOES!!!!

We got there.

 
It rained. the early festival goers were brave.
 
 
But the smoke from the BBQ floated through the air.
 
 
Inside the pavilion, matchbox guitars.
 
 
And of course, the latest in Merch
 
 
Our van got bogged and needed some help

A moment of pride. The Festival t Shirt.

As mentioned, I was in the pavillion waitign to hear the next band and then that was pretty much it. I woke up the next day at Rock River

Here's the vid I got.

 

 

 

Hopefully the other guys have more.

Stay tuned for Part 3

- I'm awake

- Yummy yummy BBQ

- Roadside Antics!

-  Rock River Stuff

 

 

I've been listening to the duet between Jo and Dc Bellamy we recorded in Kansas City (well, Lenexa KS to be accurate) and to borrow a phrase from Double Bill, it's Bossy.

Pete Doherty says it's one of the best things we've recorded. Mr Lynch says it's sonically balanced (ohh geek praise)

Big ups to Robert Rebeck for 'neering skills. 

With luck, I'll have a release version by next week. 

Once again, in traditional Stormcellar fashion, it's completely unlike anything we've ever done. Jo's amazing in it.

Come to the show on Saturday and hear Jo sing it live.

WOOT!

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