A New Year

Well hello there my friends!

I hope you all had a safe and happy holiday season! Us kids in the Honeybone camp had a great time, Drew's sister and Mum and Grandma came to visit, Peter hung out with his sister and I drowned my sorrows in Lindauer (NZ wine ftw) to stave off the homesickness. It was a pretty top notch holiday season had all round, made all the more raucous thanks to our very first Australian New Year, jello shots and all.

Things have been busy as bees in the Honeybone House. We've already played this year at a great venue by the name of Bar Open with some great bands including Son of Set, whose drummer Tom sat next to me at my office job for a small while. Everyone were great, and there was even a mirror on the roof so everyone could see my mad drum skillz (too bad I didn't wear a lowcut top). I also broke a drumstick (badass) and didn't have a spare one. Rock 'n' roll indeed.

While still getting over the starstroke (starstrike?) of hanging out with The Datsuns last month (see last blog), we've been getting our shit together. This even included having a meeting about getting our shit together. Productive indeed. Our amazing business manager Ash sussed us  an ABN, so we can invoice people when we play, so now we also have to be all responsible and pay taxes. Honeybone is now all Grown Up. We've been doing heaps of overdubs for the album, and are on the lookout for recording studios to get the other 5 tracks recorded. If anyone knows somewhere good/affordable, let us know and we'll... I don't know.... bake you a cake or something. I can bake stuff because I am a Woman and Good At Life.

Upcoming in the Honeybone camp is a gig this weekend, playing at the wonderful venue Empress Hotel. The great part about playing here is that it's RIGHT ACROSS THE ROAD from our house. Convenient! What may not be so convenient is that when I emailed their booker for a gig a few months ago, they knocked me back because we 'looked too loud'. I have a feeling it has something to do with this picture we had recently posted on our facebook:

They ALL go to 11!

They have a limit of 100 decibels, as they are in a residential area, so hopefully the boys control their toys.

(By the way I wasn't being sarcastic about this venue being wonderful, we've had some great nights there, it being our local and all).

We're playing with some great bands (headliners are City Sound) and we're on at 9pm, nice and early if you have to head to a party or something else like that (I don't really know... whatever normal people do on a Saturday night), so you can still catch our set. It's $6 entry also. Nice and cheap for all those on a budget.

We also had our first experience of Australia Day this last weekend, and I think I'm still recovering (nb. more jello shots were had). Here's a cute wee pic Tash the Jello Shot Queen took of us.

The Aussies put an Australian Flag on Drews forehead.

Rightyho Joe it's time to practice our slightly quieter set for Saturday.

See yas there peeps
xxx