Australia day 17: Another quiet day at the beach, 21st October 2009
Thursday, 22. October 2009, 00:19:40
We awoke with another great day in store for us at Byron Bay. After some nice breakfast and a good deal of faffing about, I caught up on writing the last couple of day's blog posts while Kirsty and Gabriel headed to the beach, then walked down to the local record shop with Elva asleep to take a look. I had a great time in there chatting to a couple of locals about music, then I bought CDs by a couple of Aussie bands - Karnivool and Cog.
I then headed up to the Wifi-enabled Cafe to do some work mail and post the last couple of day's blog posts, and met Gabriel and Kirsty to go to lunch.
The afternoon was awesome! We spent the whole afternoon on the beach - I walked Elva round the beach for a while, then went in the water for ages with Gabriel, swimming in the waves and pretending to be X-men, then we built a castle out of sand with four turrets, walls and a moat.
The last part of the day involved getting home, cooking some great dinner, then chilling before bed. I also checked out the two CDs I bought earlier, and both are really cool. Cog are kinda like Tool crossed with Porcupine Tree, not quite as heavy as either but really proggy and interesting, and Karnivool play good quality heavy rock - I heard a bit of Queensryche here and there...
I then headed up to the Wifi-enabled Cafe to do some work mail and post the last couple of day's blog posts, and met Gabriel and Kirsty to go to lunch.
The afternoon was awesome! We spent the whole afternoon on the beach - I walked Elva round the beach for a while, then went in the water for ages with Gabriel, swimming in the waves and pretending to be X-men, then we built a castle out of sand with four turrets, walls and a moat.
The last part of the day involved getting home, cooking some great dinner, then chilling before bed. I also checked out the two CDs I bought earlier, and both are really cool. Cog are kinda like Tool crossed with Porcupine Tree, not quite as heavy as either but really proggy and interesting, and Karnivool play good quality heavy rock - I heard a bit of Queensryche here and there...
WIDGETIZE
lachlanhardy # 22. October 2009, 00:59
Karnivool were the local support band before that Hatebreed, Soulfly gig I told you about. They were utter bollocks at the time, but that may have been because the singer appeared to be totally wasted. I've since heard a few times that they're very cool these days, so I reckon I'll have to check them out again.
Chris Mills # 24. October 2009, 23:16
I know what you mean though - it always pisses me off when you go see a band and they are crap because one of more members are wasted. Happened to me once when I saw Pantera play (Anselmo was wasted and talking shit through the whole performance), and when I saw Pitchshifter support Bad Religion (although Pitchshifter were way past their best at that point anyway, and Bad Religion were awesome, one of the best live bands I ever saw...)