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The
trio struts its stuff to an attentive Lomond audience
on Saturday night |
gig
report
Sat. 24.1.15 Spectrum trio at The Lomond Hotel
Sun. 25.1.15 Mike & Broc at Hardimans
First
Lomond gig of 2015
26.1.15 - OK - Happy Australia
Day everybody! This big, brown land offered us yet
another gig at the Lomond Hotel on Saturday night
and Maria and I joined Broc and Kathleen beforehand
to have a a meal in the bistro, which was nice except
that Broc and I had to pop out every few minutes
to attend to the business of setting up
Anyway, the important thing was that it was good
to be back at The Lomond |
with an
attentive and very responsive crowd on hand and
there were some lovely musical moments to savour.
(Mind you, I think the 12.30 finish is getting a
bit late for both us and our audience - I wonder
if I should have a chat to James and see if we can
make it a bit ealrlier?)
Broc and I struggled to find the energy the next
day at Hardimans in Kensington (not Flemington,
Mike!) where they're experimenting with putting
music on al fresco on a Sunday arvo. Perhaps
Australia Day weekend wasn't the best choice for
our inaugural gig as there was only a small group
in attendance, but they seemed to enjoy the music
- and the chat. Anyway, Broc and I have another
duo gig under our belts - and it's sounding
more comfortable each time. (pic
MG) See clip of Going
Home filmed by Peter Carolan on the night |
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Di's
60th cake that Kelly made |
gig
report
Sat. 17.1.15 Spectrum trio at Di's 60th Sun. 18.1.15
The trio at the Gerogery pub
Interstate
trip a cake-walk
19.1.15 - It seems that in
2015 it's the trio all the way as Broc, Robbo and
I boarded the good ship Mitzy at midday on Saturday
and charged off to the northern Victorian village
of Waaia (pron. Way-eye) to play party boys at Di
Calder's 60th. Ray and Di kindly invited us to the
barbie beforehand (just two doors away from the
pub) before everybody trooped down to the pub for
the official party. It was an oddly compelling evening,
with an 18th birthday sharing the same room (and
entertainment), which gifthorse they eventually
looked in the mouth leaving their elders to survey
their memories in peace.
The next morning we headed along the Murray to rejoin
the Hume Hwy and slipped over the border for the
second gig of the weekend at the throbbing metropolis
of Gerogery. The four-piece played there last year
on a Saturday night with a large crowd in attendance,
but it was considerably quieter this |
| Sunday afternoon.
In contrast to Melbourne the weather quite warm,
if a little gusty, but we had four sets to complete
before we could call it a day and to be honest it
was quite hard going, with the modest crowd ebbing
and flowing throughout the performance. Nevertheless,
by time it came to draw stumps we even elicited
some querulous calls for an encore - somebody actually
demanded three encores - and the owner
seemed happy enough, so we deemed the arvo a success.
We might even be back one day.. |
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gig
report
Sat. 10.1.15 Spectrum trio at The Vesbar Wine Lounge
The
trio's (almost) riotous New Year's opener
11.1.15 - I'd been looking
forward to this gig, not least because it means
two trio gigs in a row, but also because Bev and
Leigh make it the most Spectrum-friendly venue on
the planet. A bunch of Vesbar Spectrumites had booked
three tables and that was virtually the crowd until
the second set whem a wave of fun-seeking locals
flooded in, some who'd seen us before in other incarnations
and others who had clearly never even heard of us.
Anyway, everybody enjoyed us and themselves and
we were compelled to play three encores before the
crowd reluctantly allowed us to contemplate the
necessary tedium of packing up and going home. 2015
could be Spectrum's year - hooray! (Maria's
in Canberra so there are no pics this time) |
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Robbo
actually enjoyed the impromptu drum-riser for a
change |
gig
report
Wed. 31.12.14 NYE at the Eltham Hotel
Mike's
New Year's Eve rethink
1.1.15 - I'm not sure what
it was that made me so readily accept last night's
NYE gig at the Eltham Hotel. I've been resisting
the prospect since the last time in wherever when
I got a note from a dissatisfied punter offering
to give me a blow-job if I'd play some Britney Spears.
Anyway, right from the start everything was better
than I could've hoped for, with an OK-sized crowd
of Spectrumites on hand to enthusiastially lap it
all up. Robbo had a night out - in fact, we all
rocked. Eltham locals Greg Champion and
Rotten Ronnie enjoyed the 'art' music. (pic
MG) |
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