Honeybone Goes To The Zoo

Yep, we went to Melbourne Zoo. All three of us. Check us out, aren't we a bunch o' pretty things.

This isn't a post just about the Zoo though, that was just one day in a whole two weeks since my last post. And things are looking up in the world of Honeybone in Melbourne.

I got a job, Drew and Peter had/have interviews, we've applied for flats (but heard nothing...) so things are getting quite exciting really. The job I am doing is for a vehicle leasing company, don't all fall out of your chairs in excitement at once. I have already done that for you :) Pay is good, I start on the 16th of April which gives me a whole extra week to act like an unemployed delinquent, which is always fun.

Like play on this EPIC pinball machine at a 50's diner in South Yarra. What fun.

We went to a really cool gig on a Tuesday a couple of weeks ago in a place called the Evelyn Hotel in Fitzroy. We went with our friend Sam who used to play bass in the Du Cats Kit, he moved here last December. I was like 'Tuesday, it'll be low key, chilled out et cetera'. Well we walked into the place and it was already packed at 9.30pm, and the people kept coming in. It was like Refuel (in Dunedin) on a really really good Pint Night. Crazy shit. The bands were awesome, the headliners have a two month residency there so they'll just keep getting better and better.

Anyway, I know you only clicked on the title of this blog post to see pictures of zoo animals. You're dying to see them, I know it. So here you go:

A Lion

Gorillas

Rafiki

Honeybone love

This butterfly landed somewhere awkward...

This is more appropriate

Aw baby elephant!

Timone

Patterns

These otters didn't show the first time we went round so we came back at the end and they decided to have a fight, it was so cute.

This concludes this post! BTW I got a twitter after a few months of humming and haaing... follow me if you want @raq_hell. And follow Honeybone if you haven't already @honeybone_.

Love xxx

Arrival

Wow, again I am guilty of sporadic posting, my bad!

This time I actually have a reason to be so slack with my online correspondence. Drew and I are in Melbourne, reunited with our dearest Peter who arrived here in February. So naturally we've been a bit busy. But since I never do a lot on a Sunday I thought I'd update ya'll on what we've been up to.

Haven't managed to get to a gig yet but Peter went to the Checks at Cherry Bar on the 9th, apparently it was awesome. Cherry Bar sounds like a really cool bar, and it's on ACDC Lane in the CBD, which is a pretty rockin' address.

So Drew and I took the bus up to Christchurch on Monday and stayed at his relatives for the night. Then we had to get up at 4.30am to catch our 6.40am flight to Melbourne. It was so weird when we were flying because we were going west so dawn lasted for about 2 hours, got some cool pics but my silly camera has run out of battery so I can't show ya'll. Maybe next time.

But here's a nice one of Flinders Station taken with my new smart phone.

Our first day in Melbourne was spent wandering around getting our phones and bank accounts sussed and then we just walked around the CBD getting our bearings and checking out the shops. Once we eventually got back to where we were staying, we had been up for about 18 hours. Intensity in Ten Cities.

It's crazy to think we've been here almost a week. Our main activity at the moment is trying to find jobs and a flat. I should have taken a pic of this, but one of the flats we looked at had some used needles outside what we discovered was the back entrance of the flat, as the real estate agent came around and frantically hurried us away around the front. Haha. Australia :)

So I've got a job interview tomorrow morning, and applied for about a million jobs so hopefully something comes through soon. Kinda regretting applying for some, because the jobs I've heard back from are ones I don't really want to do lol.

But that's life

You stay classy... Planet Earth

'Fare Thee Well Dunedin' Gig

As I hinted in the previous blog entry, we have a gig coming up.

Design by Kelsie Trainor

Yay!

Sadly, it'll be Honeybone's last gig in Dunedin for a while as we (the band) are relocating to Melbourne, Australia.  We'll TRY to come back sometime soon if our financial state allows us, so this gig is a chance for us to thank Dunedin for being so rockin' over the last 3 years. You guys rock!

We'll miss you Dunedin. It's funny, my Uncle wrote a song that said exactly that, but it was written a wee while ago (I wanna say early 80s?). Still relevant. To us.

I've wanted to write about our relocation plans for a while, but I wasn't sure when we were going 'public' with the news. So now that I can, it's pretty cool. I'm pretty excited.

I've only ever moved towns once before, not countries. Although Australia is definitely easier than moving to London (or somewhere else far far away), since we don't have to worry about Visas or anything. But it's a little scary, considering I've only ever moved two hours down the road from my parents house.

We were tossing up between Auckland and Melbourne, but came to the decision (guided by many of our helpful fans, friends and family) to go across the ditch simply because Melbourne has 4 million people. Thats the size of NZ. So the odds are, more people over there might like our music, because there's generally more people.  Plus I have a feeling that New Zealand's rock scene is a bit small, theres probably less than 10 NZ rock bands that get regular radio airplay. The scene is going towards the dubstep/roots/hipster music direction, which is cool. But we don't really fit into that, methinks.

And Shihad live in Melbourne. Awesome.

Anyways, this giggity is happening on Thursday the 9th of February at XII Below. Entry is $5, and we'll be doing some sweet merch deals, so bring your jar of pennies. We've got Osmium, Kitten Suprise and others who will help us say goodbye to the town we grew up in (musically for me, but literally for Drew and Peter. Awaaahh).

So come on down and party with us whilst we say 'see ya' to this epic town. It'll be a really cool night (we hope).

Oh and in the last blog I promised boobs. Well since two of the bands playing that night have girl drummers, I'd say it'll be a boobfest (yaaa mean).

Yeah, YOU know what I mean ;)

Love ya
xxx

Welcome, 2012

Well hi there folks, and a merry New Year to you!

I hope ya'll had a sweet as holiday season, and got lots of pressies. The personnel at Honeybone do not believe in sending gifts, so that's probably why you didn't get one from us. Soz bro.

So what's new in the Honeybone world? You're probably wondering, since I've been neglecting this blog in pursuit of more interesting activities like wandering around alone on New Years in Queenstown.

This meme is rather appropriate

Well the first thing that's probably new to you (if you don't know us personally) is that Honeybone took a trip in mid-Dec 2011. We went to Auckland and saw the Foo Fighters. It was epic. They were epic. They filmed a music video but we're probably not in it because we're all too short.

Example: That guy to the left was about 2m tall, I was standing on my tippy toes and stretching my arm as high as it would go to take this pic

I also lost my shoe in the mosh, which didn't matter too much during the gig (no one was looking anywhere remotely near my feet), but once we left the stadium people looked at me weird. I was all

The next day heralded an important day in the Honeybone world, Drew and I got qualified. Yep, we graduated from University of Otago with a Bachelor of Music (Hons). So yeah, we can play music, and we have a piece of paper that says we can. Suck on that.

This guy probably has one too.

That was a fun day/night, and as we had to get up at 5am in Auckland to catch a 7am flight back to ol' Dudstown, we had a mean time.

During this time, Drew decided the time was ripe for a change. New Year brings in a new look. He cut his hair. The lovely long tresses are no more. He's still cute as a button. Heres a pic of the process.

Today, Tomorrow, Timaru

Just yesterday I booked a Honeybone gig for sometime in February. Sweet as. Stay tuned for the deets, it shall be an epic night with beers bands and boobs.

Now you're going to come just because I said boobs.

Well here it is again

BOOBS

No More Gigs...

Last night brought on the very last Honeybone gig of 2011. We played an acoustic show at a fancy bar in town called Carousel, and it was fun. People came. Drinks were consumed. Et cetera.

But don't be sad, we'll be back to do a few more shows next year. It will be a fun time.

Especially if you go here and vote for us to open Big Day Out 2011! Wouldn't that be grand. Theres also a wee sneaky version of our upcoming single 'Don't Need You' on that website, which is another sweet ass reason to check it out.

We've had a couple of awesome gigs this month. The first one was with Two Buck Titties and Phoney Dog at the Dux de Lux in Queenstown. Two Buck Titties were awesome, despite a few technical difficulties. They are a band on the rise, so keep an eye out for those guys next year. Phoney Dog were also amazing, and their bass player had a 'Chopper' style moustache. He pulled it off too, which made the band a lot cooler.

We had to drive back to Alexandra after the gig, then carry on to Dunedin the next morning so Drew could make it to work at 10am. So not a lot of sleep was had that weekend, but it was one of the best gigs we've had all year, in my opinion.

We also played with a bunch of cool bands last weekend for Ash and the Matadors album release party at XII Below. Ian Sweetman was doing sound and it was rad. Unfortunately both Drew and I were sick, so we couldn't stay up late enough to see the Matadors set but I heard it was ragin'. Apparantly they were up until 7am. Awesomeness.

You should check Ash and the Matadors out, because they rock. Probably my favourite Dunedin band that is still a band.

xxx

New Look

So.....

What do you think? No, I didn't get a haircut. And you can't see my hair anyway (you would run screaming if you did, my hair is rather dishevelled, and not in a sexy way.

Kinda like this lady

I feel rather pleased with myself as I finally managed to update the layout of this blog to make it look a bit more professional and not so amateurish. I hope I succeeded.

These pictures on this blog were taken by the magnificent Kelsie Trainor, at Signal Hill Lookout in Dunedin. It was supposed to be romantic with the sun setting, but the rain ruined that little plan. Stupid rain! Anyway, we got some cool shots, and some people came up to us and said 'Are you a band?', because we were running around jumping off things and posing in a silly/sexual fashion.

We stated that in fact, we are a band. 'We are Honeybone' we said, with our chests jutted out majestically. They hadn't heard of us. But then one guy remembered he had seen our name on a poster for 'Something about thunder?'

He was talking about Thunderfest. And what a gig that was!

It was in the warehouse space of a flat my good friend Feather lives in, called 'The Box Fort', on Carroll Street. Feather and her flatmates like to put on lots of fun activities, performances and workshops, check them out!. We were playing with two other bands, the legendary Kitten Suprise and Jack Spade and the Dusty Souls, who hail from Christchurch. I had expected it to be rugged and rough, but when we turned up to drop off our amps before din dins, the boys from Jack Spade had the mean set up, korg keyboard, a medium sized PA with foldbacks and all sorts of other treats.

Kitten Suprise played first, and then the Foxy Rockettes Burlesque did some sexual Garth Algar dancing to 'Foxy Lady' by Hendrix. The group, that night, comprised of myself, Kelsie Trainor (twin sis) and Feather (mentioned above). 

Flannel Glory

We had heaps of fun, and we're pretty sure the crowd enjoyed it! After Foxys, Jack Spade and the Dusty Souls played. They played and played. They were really cool, their fashion sense was awesome and so was their music. Unfortunately at the end of their set we were issued with a Noise Control complaint from a disgruntled neighbour.

I imagine them to look like this guy

The complaint had the wrong address on it, so we were like 'Meh'. Honeybone went on, and we were about halfway into our set when the wee noise control officer came back. We figured we had another warning before they take stuff, so we kept playing. We heard their were cops outside, so we paused until Feather gave the all clear. This was not the case however, and the cops came to help the wee officer guy take our amps. 

They took Drew's Drewberry Amp and Peter's bass head. Not cabs or drums or PA. We could have kept making noise, but we didn't. I raised the issue of the mistaken address on the first warning to one of the police guys, and he agressively asked me: 'ARE YOU TRYING TO ARGUE WITH ME??!!!'

He looked kinda like this guy

I couldn't believe it, he must have been having a bad night because I was polite as a peach. I ran away after that after squeaking 'No' to him. I did not want this guy to pick a fight with me, so I left it alone. Probably one of my more smarter decisions I would think. 

Anyway, heaps of people gave us donations to pay the fees to get our stuff back, luckily I know a guy on the DCC and he got our amps back for FREE. Totes Amaze. 

So yeah, if you gave us money to get our amps back, you can have it back.

Peace xxx

HOOOOLY SHIT!

Omigosh. Omigosh. WIGGLES

I am officially done with University. Finite! How utterly amazing. I now have way too much spare time, so I said to Drew:

'What can I do with all my spare time?'

So he told me to write a blog. I was like 'Ohhhh yeah I have a blog'.

Silly me. Now I have absolutely no reason to neglect my pretty witty blog, as I have now so much spare time I went for a run today.

Drew also finished his University projects. This means that we both have lots of spare time, which we will definitely spend with Peter doing some mean Honeybone stuff. Like inventing new catch phrases.

Drew wrote a very cool song a couple of weeks ago, it's called 'Can't Feel Your Love'. I really hope he isn't a 'method' songwriter, because if he is, he's probably trying to tell me I'm not a good girlfriend. But whenever I picture the girls in Honeybone songs, they're always really hot, but mean and bitchy girls, and I don't think I'm one of them.
Anyway, we've been practicing it, and it's sounding very cool. It's so much fun being a three piece because the three of us are like right in eachothers brains, so everyone is always on the same page, more or less.

We've got a gig next Saturday, in Queenstown with Two Buck Titties (probably the best band name in the world) and Phoney Dog, who are from Invercargill and will blow your mind.

YOU should come to this gig. Its going to be a lot of fun with beer, bands and chips.




Disclaimer: Honeybone reserve the right to withold ghost chips. But you won't want them anyway