It's a GEARFEST

Hello all you magical people.

On Friday 22nd May 2012, Honeybone got their gear back.

I was all OMFFFFFFFGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD (imagine that going up at the end). But this had to be all inside my own head, as I had to work all day so could not be reunited with said gear until approximately 5.45pm that night. The things we do to save enough money so Honeybone can buy a van.

So I excitedly rushed home from said job and entered our abode. And was immediately accosted with empty boxes. I 'casually strolled' into my bedroom and saw this:

Usually you can see more of my floor

So I kind of stood there in the doorway for about 5 minutes, completely flabbergasted. Yes, that is mostly my stuff in the picture. WHY DO I HAVE SO MANY THINGS!! I ask myself that very question everytime I move. I dislike throwing things away because a part of me is still a child and thinks inanimate objects have feelings.

You would too if your toaster was this cute.

So after I got over the initial shock, I unpacked my electronic kit which is in the large standy-uppy box in the right of the picture. Out came a dead spider. Woops. Sorry Australian Customs. Naturally I meticulously combed through anything in that box (we padded my kit with clothing) for eggs. Luckily it appeared to be a Daddy spider. Mummy spider and little Timmy will never know what adventures that curled up ball of legs and fear would have.

Sorry, I digress.

So then, naturally, I took pictures of everyone reunited with their gear, purely for the purpose of this blog. Look at me, a hardworking dedicated blogger. Good at Life.

Drews things. I'm glad I didn't have to lug that cab up four flights of stairs.

My pretty drums all boxed up in a black cage of emotion. Or just a kick hardcase. You decide.

So much gear lovin'

Saturday was spent at Ikea to buy things to put our things in. Needless to say, we now have an Ikea flat. It's like that episode of Friends where Phoebe hates Pottery Barn because everyone has the same stuff. Only I hate Ikea, because in the space of 1 and a bit months, I have been there THREE TIMES. That is a little over the top. But hey, cheap stuff. And it's got cool swedish names. Score. And we are now all really awesome at building things from a box and a set of instructions with a funny guy on them. Win.

We will now begin to practice, which will be interesting. Peter has not stopped playing bass, Drew is currently noodling away at 'Since I've Been Lovin' You' and I played drums to 'Wherever I May Roam' just last night. But I bet we'll still all suck on our first practice. Ha.

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On another note, I have been listening to a shitload of cool music. To name names, Amanda Palmer. AFP. She rules all of the schools. Lately she's been causing quite the stir by putting her new album up for backing on Kickstarter and she has at this present time over 16,000 backers and raised over $700,000 USD in just over two weeks. Of course it helps that she has a rather large, awesome, crazy dedicated fan base Even still, how amazing is that? The revolution has begun. Maybe one day Honeybone will do some sort of crowd funding project. Anyone care to throw some money at the new Honeybone album once it's done?

Cheeky.

Anyway I just wanted to let people know how awesome this is, as it puts the power with the fans. They get to decide who gets the money and who doesn't. This is not the end of shit music, because one man's Beatles is another mans Nickleback. But what I love is that the crowd decides, and that is fucking awesome. There are a few crowd funding websites out there, so go have a look cause there's so much amazing stuff in the world that would never get a look in if it weren't for the internet.

This has been quite the marathon blog.

Rachel OUT.

I love you, blog readers xxx

Random picture of a shark, because they are cool.

Honeybone in the 21st Century

Oh yes, first blogpost in weeks because we finally have internet connected at our house!

I just read the last post to see what I had told ya'll and it was really shit all so I should probably be a good girl and write a really cool interesting funny long one...

We'll see how that works out.

So we have a gig! June 19th at a place called Revolver. It's an industry night showcase run by a promo company called Melbourne Fresh. If you live in Melbourne and want to come, we have to sell 30-50 tickets at $10 AUD a pop so we'd love it if you were keen. Just give me an email at rachel@honeybonemusic.com and we'll sort something out.

We get 20 minutes to strut our stuff, and it's sort of like a battle of the bands because I believe there are prizes and a final and everything. So that will be fun. Woop.

Our flat is very very cool. We moved in on the 16th of April, the first day of my new job. That was a hectic day. We still don't have much furniture because we don't have much money, but we have some camp chairs our good mates Ashleigh and Paul lent us so that's cool. They're really comfy and the drink holders are really good for holding my beer (funny that).

Here is one of them and sneaky Peter to the right

We also bought loft beds from IKEA because we will have so much more room for activities. Seriously though, they are cool except for the fact that I'm scared every morning, because I am that kind of person who would fall.


Melbourne is really really great. It takes me 30-40 minutes on the tram to get to work but it's totally worth it. 

Especially when Asian girls have Pedo Bear Bags lol

We saw The Verlaines a couple of weeks ago when we were here and caught up with some old Dunedin expats, which was great. We haven't had much money because we had to use our first pays to pay the first month of rent so we haven't been able to do a lot, but once I get paid again (I get paid bi-monthly), it'll be sweet as. There's heaps of places I really want to go to, so there's my weekends full up for the next year or so!

Our gear gets delivered to our flat next Friday which is super exciting. I figured out at work the other day (I don't do a hell of a lot at my new job haha) that it's been more than TWO MONTHS since I've played drums. So Melbourne peeps, don't expect too much on my first outing. Muscle memory will kick in for a bit, but then I'll realise just how much 2 months can set you back. We're going to get straight back into practicing which is going to be awesome. Drew will have his computer and hard drive back and we can listen to the mixes of the recordings we did last year and work out what needs redone. It's going to be so exciting, I've had a bit of a music withdrawal. Although last night I played at an open mic night at the pub a block down from our flat, which was interesting, as most open mic nights are everywhere.

We've done so much since I last posted. We went to the Storm/Warriors game at AAMI Park on Anzac Day. That was really cool because we were surrounded by kiwis (even a bunch of Maoris smoking pot right behind us, felt just like home). Warriors lost, but hey that happens.

Here's a picture of Drew putting my IKEA drawers together. IKEA rocks

Drew and I have a Narnia Wardrobe!

I feel like this a good, decent length blog. Keep an eye out, I'll probably write a really good one next week when we get our gear (woop)

xxx