Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Ok, So... The Battle of The bakl;hdcnms.,m;lkj;kj or something.
Current mood: giggly

So. I'd been at a gallery thing all afternoon. The wine wasnt free but they had scallops and thats a fine thing to eat with beer. Plus they had no children and thats a fine thing also with beer. Suffice to say... It was fine. I don't believe anyone sold anything and I guess thats just an artists gig; sometimes they bite, sometimes you end up playing to the bar staff. Thats what its like at Brewers in Mt. Maunganui (Try The Terminator, just ask the bar staff). Every now and then you strike a great night where the locals stick around and it's magic (yes we've switched from art to music)... (Wake up damn you!!!) This particular evening Brewers hosted the INTERGALACTIC WORLD BATTLE OF THE BANDS! God what a mouthful. I actually feel a little tired from typing it in capitals. From what I remember, and thats not really much to go on, there were several bands competing from the bay of plenty. Shagg Performance, Holocene, Slipping Tongue(sic), Metal Tower and ... Others. I did get to meet the rest but they left such small indentations on me that their names evade me at present. Everyone played well enough I guess but no one really stole the show and in all it was just a farce because eventually, after heats and semi finals and finals, someone will be named WORLD RULER OF BANDS and it is kinda just lame. A few kiwis have won it before and they ended up being lame too. I guess it boils down to the fact that battle of the bands suck. The only people they are good for are the people who collect the door take. I used to work in radio and our station relied on a yearly battle of the bands to keep running, the door take from those gigs was more than advertising revenue alone. It doesnt really matter who wins as long as daddy gets the coinage. And that old lame goose story about "oh yeah, we dont really care who wins or loses, its just a great opportunitty to get in front of a great crowd", DUDE its not a great crowd, its a bunch of people who want someone other than you to win!!!!!!! !! God. So at the end of the day I drank till 8am with a band that didnt win and didnt really give a fuck but I think felt let down by the fact that they didnt even really get a good crowd to play for. Fuck you intergalactic, fuck your stupid asses.

xxx Lucy
http://blog.myspace.com/stlucy

[ http://blog.myspace.com/stlucy ]