Lime Spiders gigs

Truly awesome!!!
Nothing like playing a www.limespidersmusic.com gig to shake out the cobwebs from your system. 75 minutes of frantic shamanistic mayhem where you are transported to another plane of existence. I once said to friends it was better than sex........and I now think it's on a par at least.
Friday nights gig at the Cambridge Hotel in Newcastle was shaping up to be what is politely phrased "a funeral gig" or in other words a bit of a flop. Not many people [about 100] but boy were they into it!! They were grabbing the crowd barrier and shaking it up and down. One guy was leaning into the speaker box and turning his head around like an old hippie, his eyes rolling back in his head. Ben Gillies the Silverchair www.chairpage.com drummer was in attendance and I had a nice little rave with him and I had a great talk to some fans afterwards until the wee hours.
Saturday dawned hot and I was nursing a bit of a hangover and couldn't wait for the load out and drive back to Sydney to be over. The part of Newcastle we were playing was the West End and it was a dump and seemed stuck in a time warp economically and socially. Nothing has changed much in the 15 or so years since I last played here. I went for a little drive down to the beach end, as I waited for the other guys to surface, and it was much more salubrious with cafes, expensive cars and generally more gorgeous people around.
The drive back seemed to take forever and it was boiling hot on the F3 to Sydney. Lucky it wasn't Sunday we were travelling as a bushfire broke out near Berowra closing it for a day or two.
After a cold shower, feed and snooze back at Ged's place I felt like a million dollars and headed off for soundcheck at the www.annandalehotel.com. Met up with Jay Katz form the SBS Movie show who runs a B Grade movie/DJ night extravaganza out in the beer garden. He remembers me from 3 years ago at the Sounds of Seduction/Flickerfest festival at the Bondi Pavilion when I tried to storm the stage to play a drum solo and get a girl inside one of the go go dancing cages.......Outrageous behaviour but he was good humoured about it and only had words of praise for the Spiders. Also made some good contacts with MMM Radio in Wollongong and Dum Media in Sydney. I'm always networking.......hey I'm a Leo!!!
Soundcheck sizzled/cracked and popped and was VERY LOUD. People were applauding it.
I decamped back to Ged's for a rest and Zen lockdown to focus for the show, arriving back at the Annandale just as the drumkit is being set up. No alcohol and no food for 3 hours before I play. It's just too physical and I am not getting any younger [well maybe in the head!]
The crowd is down on our sellout appearance in May but the gig is a blinder and by the end I had timed my run to perfection and was slamming into the drums fearfully. Consensus seems to be that it was better than the last May gig and we operate more as a unit now. A few of us retire back to a nice little pub on Parramatta Rd.
Sunday is even hotter and it is 35 degrees by 10am in the morning. I feel elated after the gigs and drive back to Mudgee a very happy chappy. Long live the Spiders.