Currently I am sitting on our Cowch (a sofa with cow print, it's as awesome as it sounds), listening to Drew mix 'Edge of The Sun' after we finally finished recording all the vocals. And my oh my, it's sounding pretty nice. So I thought I should probably do something productive. Why not update the blog with what we've been up to in the last two weeks, I thought to myself. And yes, that's what I'll do.
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| Amazing Cowch |
We've played a couple of gigs, recorded some stuff, had some band practices. It's been a busy couple of weeks. And this next week coming up is even busier, with Peter's 'season' of concerts (he's going to an average of one a week for the next six weeks I think) and SOUNDWAVE! I'm really very excited, as I'm a bogan from way back and finally get to see Metallica, who have been on my bucket list since I learnt 'Enter Sandman' on drums when I was 14. And I missed out on tickets when they came down under last time so I owe it to my 14 year old self. Plus I'm a bogan. I'm gonna headbang the shit out of Soundwave. If I could, I would grow a Handle Bar moustache. But as I am a woman, I'll have to settle for a makeshift mullet and Metallica tshirt (black of course).
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| Bogane Chic |
On Valentines Day we played a gig on Sydney Road. It was fun, our mates got their own special private show, as the other bands we played with decided not to watch our set, and took their crowd outside to listen to the DJ that was playing out there. It was a pretty loose set, there wasn't a lot of foldback and I didn't have time to set my drums up properly (and I played badly). I decided it was a good thing no one watched us, and we got paid (which was funny cause all our mates got in for free so I don't know who's money that was). There was also one girl watching who I didn't know who caught the whole set, and got a download card afterwards. Whoever you are, random girl from that night, you are cool. All it takes is one person to come up afterwards and say they liked it, and everything seems a bit better. It's a shame that none of the other bands even came in for one song, especially as the first band were talking about 'supporting local music' all throughout their set. That's not really a good attitude to have. They were a good band though. But if musicians aren't supporting their fellow musicians, what else do we have?
On Friday we played the Valleyarm Showcase at the Vineyard in St. Kilda. And what a turn around from our last gig! The place was packed, all the bands were awesome and supportive, and Honeybone were tight.
We gave away 24 copies our newly printed single (more on that later), with the help of Ashleigh and Rory from Valleyarm. I cannot emphasise how awesome the guys from Valleyarm are, they were so helpful in getting everything organised (they even brought us drinks). If you or anyone you know get asked to play at this monthly gig at the Vineyard, do it. Very lovely, helpful people. Valleyarm Distribution are an digital music distribution company, who distribute to 200 online music stores, and they also do publishing and online marketing too. Check them out
here.
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| Here's a picture of Drew from the gig. Badass. |
One of the bands that played at the gig were amazing. Their name is The Ugly Kings, and they are a three piece (drums, two guitars) who play dirty garage rock. And their drummer is the vocalist. Awesome. Their facebook page is
here, go and click on that 'like' button.
As I mentioned before, we now have physical copies of our single 'Don't Need You' We also chucked 'All My Sins' and 'Soul On Fire' on there from the Soul On Fire EP, for the people who haven't heard the old stuff.
Since we're not rich people, we decided to do a stripped down version of the original single design, and make the CD covers ourselves. So last Saturday night was spent folding (and folding and folding) paper CD cases.
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| And we also had tea. Because tea. |
They turned out really well, so if anyone wants to do this themselves,
here is the link to the website that taught me this wonderful skill. Step 5 was a bit tricky to start with but I got there in the end. We printed the artwork (see top of picture) on gloss paper, so it looks pretty professional. And if you can afford colour print it would look even better (it was going to cost $80 for 100 colour prints so we went black and white). We got the CDs printed and duplicated at Implant Media on Lygon Street who do lots of cool affordable cd/merch/vinyl printing and replicating/duplicating. We at Honeybone recommend their services.
So now that we have physical copies of the single, come down to our next gig and get one! They're free and handmade with love by yours truly. Our next gig is on Saturday 2nd March at the Dancing Dog in Footscray. Keep an eye out on our
Facebook for more details.
Love
xxx
