A New 'Bone House

WE MOVED INTO A HOUSE

It's pretty cool. It has '70s style orange and brown carpet, aqua green walls and a garage. Peter found a classy as apartment just down the road in a warehouse conversion building.Thus why I have been too darn busy to blog. Yesterday I even bought and found a use for power tools. But now is the hour where I blog again. So don't fret and stuff.

So now we are rid of the terrifying downstairs neighbours, we are free to make noise again. I might just set up my drums and give them a bashing sometime soon. Drew has already turned the garage into his 'man-cave' and set up all his amp building gear, which is great because now it doesn't clutter up our bedroom. Winning.

Drew got a job working at the Blackburn branch of Cranbourne Music, so if you're ever up that way on a Thursday, Saturday or Sunday, call in and say hi. Drew is finally getting paid to talk about guitars all day (something he does anyway) and also gets to make sweet as videos such as this (I especially love the somewhat amplified kiwi accent):

Now that Drew is a man of means he works 7 days a week (since he's kept his other job). This doesn't leave a lot of time for extra curricular activities, or recording. Which means the final stage of recording the album won't be finished for a while, since I work Mon-Fri, Drew is Mon-Sun and Peter is whenever he is rostered possibly Mon-Sun between 7am and 10 pm. Annual leave is few and far between for all of us.

We try to not let life get in the way of art. But at the moment (especially with all the moving/bond paying), we need the cash. To pay for studio time, and less important things like food and rent (and the sweet as organ we're getting for our dining room).

I found this photo whilst going through old HB pics last night. This is at DV8 sometime last year. I thought it was cool.

In spite of the recording hiccup, things are still happening in the world of HB. A few weeks ago we recorded some demos at a practice space aaaaaages away (somewhere in the South East suburbs). The purpose of those is to listen to them and come up with better parts and production stuff without having to practice all the time (a great idea since none of us really have a lot of time). We are also planning a photo shoot sometime soon (Andy Weston, photographer extraordinaire is going to take some snaps of our pretty faces), if anyone has ideas for a shoot, let me know! All I can think of is the dull band-in-front-of-a-white-or-brick-wall cliche. I've been bit artistically challenged lately.

And to top it all off we've got some gigs coming up in the next few weeks. Next Tuesday (that's the 23rd of April) we're playing a gig with Sierra Leone and Karl Leedon at the Brunswick Hotel. It's free entry and we're headlining at 10pm (it's a school night but school is for fools). Here is the Facebook event. We're also playing a warehouse party in Yarraville on the 27th, more on that one to come.

After those gigs it's bye bye Aussie for ten days while Drew and I go on a holiday back to our home town of Dunedin and catch up with all the bros and hos down there. I seriously can't wait, I haven't had a holiday in over a year.

Lastly, here's a piece I wrote for The Factory about crowd funding, it's pretty much an expansion on the last blog. It's got statistics and everything, so you know it's totes legit. Unlike this blog.

Until next time
xxx