My Blue Heaven

Jack Johnson Gig

2:10 pm Mon, 21st March 2005

It was abso-friggin-lutely AWESOME! 🙂 Despite the rain (was pouring at one stage – so glad I had my “Great Barrier Reef” poncho.. even though must have looked ridiculous – but hey, ppl were even wearing garbage bags), going solo, and 6 hours of standing squashed in a crowd of 30,000…. I had myself a GREAT time! With over 5 hours of live music – 3 support acts, and Jack playing for a solid 2 hours – it was almost like an outdoor music festival. The supports included Xavier Rudd (very cool stuff!), Donavon Frankenreiter, G. Love & Special Sauce and DJ Katalyst playing a good mix of tunes in between sets. My first time seeing Jack live… he’s awesome! Very natural and friendly on stage.. a great performer, his songs sound even better live. Even with everyone singing along to most of his songs. 🙂 I took soooo many photos (and *cough* videos) at the gig.. I’ve uploaded all the photos here. Here’s a sample below.

[Update: Videos have been uploaded! All up, 9 vids, 45 megs!! Clicky here, for a limited time only coz they take too much space!]

Incidentally, I met this italian guy called Fabio (and no he was not the most beautiful man in the cosmos). He was there alone too, and was my gig buddy for the evening. As cool as it was being there alone.. it was nice to chat to someone occasionally.

Day Out @ Wattamolla

What a great weekend! Not only was there Jack Johnson on Friday night, I had a very enjoyable day out with friends on Saturday at a BBQ/day out at Wattamolla beach, down south at the Royal National Park. (Hello guys if you’re reading this :P) Though it had been forecast to rain, the day turned out just beautiful.. blue skies, fluffy white clouds and sunshine. 🙂 We started the day a bit late as one of us had a small car accident (on the way to pick me up incidentally).. but we eventually made it to Wattamolla by lunch time. The day was then spent eating a scrummy bbq lunch (hey it was a good effort, even though we had no oil, no bbq utensils and no sauce! :P), playing various sports involving balls (cricket, volleyball.. or seeing how high you could throw a tennis ball?? The things that amuse some people. :P), frolicking in the rather nippy ocean (learnt an amusing new term that surfers apparently use for cold water – “spanner water” – can anyone guess what that phrase means?), or lazing about on the sand. Here’s a few piccies (more pics here, and also thanks to Steve for some extra pics):

Karaoke Craziness!

After having dinner in Liverpool, some of us headed out to K-Mix in the city for some KARAOKE! What was meant to be a 2 hour booking got extended (twice) to a mammoth 4 hours of karaoke fun. I think this is the most fun I’ve ever had at a karaoke session. These guys are a crack up! Everyone fully got into it – from dancing on table tops (*cough*), to singing our hearts (and lungs) out, or doing “backstreet boys” style moves (ROMYL!), posing like a very.. *cough*homosexual*cough* “Dancing Queen” (ROMYL!), and just generally letting loose (note that NO alcohol was involved whatsoever) and having an all round awesome time. 😀 Some great singers too! We even kept on singing acapella after they turned our machine off. Hehe.

Afterwards, a few of us were feeling a bit peckish.. and I was cravin some pancakes (“Make you banana pancakes… pretend like its the weekend…” Ok I gotta stop reciting those Jack Johnson lyrics.. :P), so off we went to Pancakes at the Rocks.. at 3am! Ended up getting home (once again) at around 6am. You guys are such a bad influence. (Btw if you guys are reading this, I think you should be nice to Kazzart and leave a comment. :D)

Current listening :: “Wasting Time” – Jack Johnson (Hehe.. appropriate.. took me aages to get all these photos from the weekend up and this is a mother of a post!!)

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