No More Gigs...

Last night brought on the very last Honeybone gig of 2011. We played an acoustic show at a fancy bar in town called Carousel, and it was fun. People came. Drinks were consumed. Et cetera.

But don't be sad, we'll be back to do a few more shows next year. It will be a fun time.

Especially if you go here and vote for us to open Big Day Out 2011! Wouldn't that be grand. Theres also a wee sneaky version of our upcoming single 'Don't Need You' on that website, which is another sweet ass reason to check it out.

We've had a couple of awesome gigs this month. The first one was with Two Buck Titties and Phoney Dog at the Dux de Lux in Queenstown. Two Buck Titties were awesome, despite a few technical difficulties. They are a band on the rise, so keep an eye out for those guys next year. Phoney Dog were also amazing, and their bass player had a 'Chopper' style moustache. He pulled it off too, which made the band a lot cooler.

We had to drive back to Alexandra after the gig, then carry on to Dunedin the next morning so Drew could make it to work at 10am. So not a lot of sleep was had that weekend, but it was one of the best gigs we've had all year, in my opinion.

We also played with a bunch of cool bands last weekend for Ash and the Matadors album release party at XII Below. Ian Sweetman was doing sound and it was rad. Unfortunately both Drew and I were sick, so we couldn't stay up late enough to see the Matadors set but I heard it was ragin'. Apparantly they were up until 7am. Awesomeness.

You should check Ash and the Matadors out, because they rock. Probably my favourite Dunedin band that is still a band.

xxx

New Look

So.....

What do you think? No, I didn't get a haircut. And you can't see my hair anyway (you would run screaming if you did, my hair is rather dishevelled, and not in a sexy way.

Kinda like this lady

I feel rather pleased with myself as I finally managed to update the layout of this blog to make it look a bit more professional and not so amateurish. I hope I succeeded.

These pictures on this blog were taken by the magnificent Kelsie Trainor, at Signal Hill Lookout in Dunedin. It was supposed to be romantic with the sun setting, but the rain ruined that little plan. Stupid rain! Anyway, we got some cool shots, and some people came up to us and said 'Are you a band?', because we were running around jumping off things and posing in a silly/sexual fashion.

We stated that in fact, we are a band. 'We are Honeybone' we said, with our chests jutted out majestically. They hadn't heard of us. But then one guy remembered he had seen our name on a poster for 'Something about thunder?'

He was talking about Thunderfest. And what a gig that was!

It was in the warehouse space of a flat my good friend Feather lives in, called 'The Box Fort', on Carroll Street. Feather and her flatmates like to put on lots of fun activities, performances and workshops, check them out!. We were playing with two other bands, the legendary Kitten Suprise and Jack Spade and the Dusty Souls, who hail from Christchurch. I had expected it to be rugged and rough, but when we turned up to drop off our amps before din dins, the boys from Jack Spade had the mean set up, korg keyboard, a medium sized PA with foldbacks and all sorts of other treats.

Kitten Suprise played first, and then the Foxy Rockettes Burlesque did some sexual Garth Algar dancing to 'Foxy Lady' by Hendrix. The group, that night, comprised of myself, Kelsie Trainor (twin sis) and Feather (mentioned above). 

Flannel Glory

We had heaps of fun, and we're pretty sure the crowd enjoyed it! After Foxys, Jack Spade and the Dusty Souls played. They played and played. They were really cool, their fashion sense was awesome and so was their music. Unfortunately at the end of their set we were issued with a Noise Control complaint from a disgruntled neighbour.

I imagine them to look like this guy

The complaint had the wrong address on it, so we were like 'Meh'. Honeybone went on, and we were about halfway into our set when the wee noise control officer came back. We figured we had another warning before they take stuff, so we kept playing. We heard their were cops outside, so we paused until Feather gave the all clear. This was not the case however, and the cops came to help the wee officer guy take our amps. 

They took Drew's Drewberry Amp and Peter's bass head. Not cabs or drums or PA. We could have kept making noise, but we didn't. I raised the issue of the mistaken address on the first warning to one of the police guys, and he agressively asked me: 'ARE YOU TRYING TO ARGUE WITH ME??!!!'

He looked kinda like this guy

I couldn't believe it, he must have been having a bad night because I was polite as a peach. I ran away after that after squeaking 'No' to him. I did not want this guy to pick a fight with me, so I left it alone. Probably one of my more smarter decisions I would think. 

Anyway, heaps of people gave us donations to pay the fees to get our stuff back, luckily I know a guy on the DCC and he got our amps back for FREE. Totes Amaze. 

So yeah, if you gave us money to get our amps back, you can have it back.

Peace xxx

HOOOOLY SHIT!

Omigosh. Omigosh. WIGGLES

I am officially done with University. Finite! How utterly amazing. I now have way too much spare time, so I said to Drew:

'What can I do with all my spare time?'

So he told me to write a blog. I was like 'Ohhhh yeah I have a blog'.

Silly me. Now I have absolutely no reason to neglect my pretty witty blog, as I have now so much spare time I went for a run today.

Drew also finished his University projects. This means that we both have lots of spare time, which we will definitely spend with Peter doing some mean Honeybone stuff. Like inventing new catch phrases.

Drew wrote a very cool song a couple of weeks ago, it's called 'Can't Feel Your Love'. I really hope he isn't a 'method' songwriter, because if he is, he's probably trying to tell me I'm not a good girlfriend. But whenever I picture the girls in Honeybone songs, they're always really hot, but mean and bitchy girls, and I don't think I'm one of them.
Anyway, we've been practicing it, and it's sounding very cool. It's so much fun being a three piece because the three of us are like right in eachothers brains, so everyone is always on the same page, more or less.

We've got a gig next Saturday, in Queenstown with Two Buck Titties (probably the best band name in the world) and Phoney Dog, who are from Invercargill and will blow your mind.

YOU should come to this gig. Its going to be a lot of fun with beer, bands and chips.




Disclaimer: Honeybone reserve the right to withold ghost chips. But you won't want them anyway