#deadwolves

Week 3 of the tour took us to QLD.

We arrive into Brisbane early morning and spend two hours sitting around at the airport drinking coffee waiting for Mitch and Mugga to arrive, then jump a taxi to our accom on the westside of town. The Brisbane Backpackers is where its at.. $8 jug of booze, international travelers, a pool and palm trees. We ate some eggs at the local cafe and decided to tuck into a few cold beverages at the poolside bar to kill time before we head to the first show. About 4-5 hours later we leave the bar and made our way to the venue. Rics Bar in fortitude valley. This place was crazy..the inside of venue is about the size of a generous middle class Australian citizens bathroom, then i went out to the smoking area out the back to discover an area so large you could play 18 rounds of golf. It was so big that when i rang Mitch to tell him i was on the other side of the smoking area Telstra informed me that i was now making an international call. Anyway.. i think you get the picture!

Dead Wolves were up first and fuck me did these dudes rip shit up. These guys came recommended from our other QLD pals in The Mercy Beat and they sure as hell were on fire. I didnt know if we were going to get to play after watching these guys..they had so much energy i thought they were going to burn the pub down before we got our chance.

Dead joe were up next. Hadn't seen these guys in a week. These mad bastards drove all the way from Adelaide to Brisbane in about a day and a half and were starting to look like somebody dragged them off the local tip. The lads had a killer show and were starting to sound like a band with a few shows under their belts and a stench i would imagine smelling if i was present when they opened up Tutan khamuns tomb.

We bust into our set for the night and i must say we are starting to get our shit together also. People were comin in and sticking around and seem to be diggin the new songs.. i guess its all new to the ppl of Brisbane because we have never been there, but we had a bender of a show, made a heap of new mates and celebrated like sailors with the old ones.

Noteable mentions: We got a new Captives back drop made for the band, took it to Rics, left it in its bag and forgot to put it up.

Other noteable mentions: had a few too many spicy rums, packed up our shit and realised a week later that we left the banner at Rics.

Waking up in QLD is one of the worst things in the world when you come from a climate so cold you hardly need a fridge. My head was thumpin, my throat was dry, there were flys buzzin over me waiting to lay maggots in what im sure they thought was some dead corpse.

We had the day off..thank fuck for that. Good friday they called it.. i dunno why. there was nothin good about that day for me. Everything was shut. 

Our mates Release the Houds were playing a show with our tour buddys Dead Joe at the 4zzz Carpark.. so we jumped into Dead joes van god help us, and we went over for a looksie. All of a sudden there are swarms of Brisbane punk kids rockin up with arm loads of booze and just smashing on. We forgot to stock up the day before and came empty handed. Feeling that hot weather we needed a bloody drink. So we jumped on google and found out that if you buy food in a cafe that is licensed then you can grab a beer. Good ol' lordy had already found the place before the rest of us got there. We leave the carpark show briefly on our mission for the holy grail and found this little cafe in the mall.. ordered a slice of bannana bread and 15 coronas. So here we are with 15 bottles of beer with no fuckin lids on them, draggin our arses back to a carpark to eat banana bread and watch punk bands.

Within that hour i witnessed a sick band from Melbourne called tigers bash out a rad set, our bros in Release the Hounds deliver a blazing set, i saw a dude totally starkers moshing with his knob out, two topless girls, a guy get arrested and dragged off in a police car, and a dog on the roof of the venue. 

After this i can't even remember what happened and frankly i don't think you really wanna know or care.

Tyms Guitars was up next. Record store day. This store is amazing. It was chockers full of people buying records and tshirts and watching bands. The fuckin Hard-Ons played. The staff at the shop were absolutely amazing to us.. on arrival they gave us beers, supplied us with a shit load of sick amps were could use and were very welcoming. I think sending Mugga into a guitar shop with a credit card and loading the poor guy up with xxxx is a recipe for disaster...or a retailers dream :) Woke up with a heap of new bits and bods from record store day, had another great show and left feeling amazed at how rad the brisbane music scene is. We even got invited to be on the door at a KC and the Sunshine band show down the road but opted to stay at TYMS Guitars. It was the best!!

next day we were at the Crowbar punk rocker festival.. i turned up at the door at 5:30pm to discover some guy in one of the bands so wasted he had thrown a pint glass at the bar staff and told eveybody to go fuck 'em selves... 

There was a fairly decent crowd starting to roll in and again this place is a sweet venue with a huge sound system and stage. For me this was our best performance of the QLD shows..after three in a row you seem to get into the swing of it. Heaps of really good bands and just had a mad big party with all the bands and friends and reached that point where everybody was tellin everybody how much they loved each other. We had to get the fuck outta here 'cause we had the 6am flight back to Melbourne and it was starting to get late. Went back to the back packers and ordered a jug of cider..mitch grabbed a jug and filled up a glass and went to bed before drinking a mouthful.. i just gave it to some hobo backpacker who thought xmas had come early.

this might seem like a long blog but its very much the short version of what went down in QLD. Thankyou to everybody we met and call friends in QLD. It was an amazing experience for us and we can't wait to get back to your wonderful state.

now we sleep and get ready for canberra, Sydney and Wollongong. Brace yourselves for the next edition of the Adventures of Captives.

Aaron

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