One Hell of a Saturday night
Well, the Ruby Suns gig on Saturday went well, despite the competition of Ghostplane and Die Die Die playing on the same night. The experiment of playing every song off the album seemed to work out, even if the set order was unusual - rising and falling like an album not steadily rising like a set should (though Tosh did a good job of being a Zebra for the a cappella track that we didn't want to play). Of course, we got carried away with the amount of instruments we had on stage and soundcheck was awful so it was lucky we had James Sneak to tweek the knobs and keep us one step away from feedback at least. I definitely focus more on jumping around than playing well these days, since I have another band to be a musical geek in. Once we've played all the gigs we have lined up in Oct then we should be pretty tight in any case. Great to see a few faces from around here at the gig - sorry if I was running around like crazy and unable to really be very friendly.

Once the gig ended, I raced off to catch Die Die Die, who were planning to take the stage at midnight. The venue was Fu Bar, weirdly enough, and it added a sense of peculiarity to the event to have the band set-up in front of the DJ booth - unseemly and wild as they were compared to your average house DJ. The crowd was pretty feral by that stage of night as well and as we arrived during the first song, we found that the mosh was already in full effect. I shook my head so much that I woke up with an aching neck. Andrew took his guitar with him as he climbed over the amps and eventually over the crowd, Henry did a bit of crowd surfing himself, with his bass in tow, and the show finished with a communal stage dive onto the drum kit. As usual, cheeseontoast. has photographs and will no doubt have some of the Ruby Suns over the next coupla days. Petra Jane also has some pics that catch the wildness of the Die Die Die gig and which are worth checking out (and not just because you can occasionally catch a glimpse of me jumping around in my sweaty cheapskates T-shirt!).