Honeybone and Life: 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.