Gig Report: Folkin' Good Times @ The Adelaide, September 18th

Yes, this one is late. Which is lame of me, I know. This'll be a short gig report.

Rachel from my Birthday Gig and I decided to combine forces and do a duet set between our sets - I've got to say, it's a very different experience playing with someone else and I very much enjoyed it. We did a set that mostly consisted of covers but did write a song together pretty much off the cuff at one of our rehearsals, which was a lot of fun. Rachel opened up the night with a couple of pretty guitar and vocal numbers - that girl is a fantastic musician. Seriously. Piano, guitar... not at the same time, cos that's just silly but she really does have mad skills and it was a pleasure working with her.

After our combined SuperPower set, I did a shorter than usual set consisting entirely of 50/90 material. The cool thing about this was that I performed both of Stephen's songs - Bill Stickers and Tok Pisin. As he was one of my few fans who braved the disgusting weather to come out, it was nice to be able to do that. (In defence of those who didn't make it... the weather sucked and most of them were in the middle of rather horrific university assignments so I harbour no ill will towards anyone.) Still, it was nice to see some new faces as opposed to always just my friends and all in all I think I did alright.

We finished the night with "three quarters of Mushroom" - as in Mushroom with no drummer. Well, that's what it started as... the evening finished in the wee hours of the morning after about 2 or 3 hours of mad, mad jamming. It was pretty hilarious to watch and definitely, as we pride ourselves on, a "Folkin' Good Time".

Coming up to the end of 50/90 now - the local contingent will be partying once this is over, let me tell you! It's so great that I now have other people around me doing this crazy thing... I'm especially proud of Stephen Wordsmith. That boy will go far. And, for the time being, he is my lyricist. Mine. Hands off. (Well, actually, no, I'm not that selfish and he's a big boy so he can do what he likes... I just like to think his loyalty lies with me. Kind of. Sort of. Maybe.)

Off to squeeze more songs out of this last week of 50/90,
Rose