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Howdy Folks.

As you may be aware, it's Videoclip time again here in the Stormcellar and I have been working on a few concepts. As per usual some of our ideas have gone kaput..but one or two other seem to be working out.

Whilst googling images for a clip for the new song 'Hard Times' I kept coming across artwork from a Kiwi cousin, Aloysius Patrimonio, and I am digging the heck out of his art.

Even better, he is lending his brainpower and ideas to our new clip. I won't give the game away yet but I wanted to share one of his images.

I have spent some time going through his portfolio and can definitely describe myself as a fan.

The initial mock up of the clip is done, but it's going to take quite a bit of effort and time to get it right, so this is just a teaser :-)

Woot, we're at the Orana hotel this Friday night in Blacksmiths (Newcastle way) and then at the Taverners Hill Hotel the night following (Sat Sept 1st), then the following week it's another double gig weekend as we crisscross with Ward's Express in Sydney (We're at the Baldy, He's at the Taverners) and play a double bill with Ross and the 'Xpress at Towradgi Beach.

Yes I know it's a lot to take in so I'll simplify:

This Friday 31st Aug, Orana Hotel, Blacksmiths

This Saturday 1st Sept, Taverners Hill Hotel, Leichhardt

the week following...

Oh heck, i'll post it again next week anyway.

Howdy Folks. We played the Kent in Newcastle last night, driving up with the returning Sunday night traffic.

A late night session at the Kent on a Sunday night? It's after 8:30, people should be at home, glued to the tube, watching the latest in reality TV stuff...but no, in Newcastle, they're out at the Steve Edmonds gig and then afterwards...

now I'd wear a Go Pro or some Helmet Cam but the boys wont let me. They say I'd look like The Borg (resistance is  futile), so I make do with filming what I can whilst doing 'other' stuff. Like singing.

What surprised me the most last night was the Very Polite clapping from the audience during the first set. We could have been at a golf game :-) They got a little more raucous as the evening progressed.

Cheers to James, nick, Anna and the folks that came out on a late Sunday for a Dance. A big night.

We're back up that way next Friday at the Orana hotel in Blacksmith.

Thanks to Mark W for filling me in on the first name, I wanted to send a special shout out to the dancing man, Tommy, who personified all the characteristics we wrote about in this song, at the last Royal Hotel gig in Bondi.

Never be afraid to ask a tall girl for a dance :-)

This one's for you Tom.

This is Zom , he is a Klavoodian , he is from a far off galaxy a planet called Klavooda a very wet and humid place ,he calls in to Earth for some R&R , fresh food , and he hovers his spaceship above the venue Stormcellar are playing at and listens to them play through his very advanced listening technology devices , as you can see he loves the Blues !!