goodbye.

The Tote always scared me a little because I never dressed right or looked old enough to be there, but it was one of the coolest places I have ever been in. My last memory of the Tote was seeing Digger and the Pussycats, The Stabs, Gentle Ben and then getting bruises to Sixfthick. It was amazing.

I'll miss walking in the wrong direction from Victoria Park station everytime I went to go see you.

Goodbye Tote Hotel x

yahoo.

I once had a friend in my year twelve History class, and nearing the end of the financial year, of that year, he started a band. It may have been established well before then, but that was the first that I had heard of them.

I went to their second show where they played to like, 6 people, after my English exam and I eventually made the effort to go see them again on Friday at Yahoo Bar.

I kind of hate Yahoo Bar because there is a really wanky bartender and everytime I see him I just want to shoot the orange juice hose all over his stupid face. Although, it is all that Shepparton has in terms of live music and I used to be able to get in there before I was eighteen, so I do secretly like it a tiny bit.

His band isn't really my cup of tea in terms of their music style, but I don't think anything that I like would go down too well in Shepp. So they're not too bad, and I guess they gave Shepparton kids some style tips and can be thanked for that.

I can't wait to go back to Melbourne.

save me a place

j

radelaide.

I had to go to Adelaide to see family after new years. I've yet to have visited a more boring city. My brother and I spent the whole time trying to sneak onto peoples wireless networks. They had a record store but I didn't even like it that much. Dad spent eighty million hours in there, but it was okay because he came out with Brian Hooper's record and a Grong Grong CD.

Radelaide is such a misleading nickname.

rowland s. howard

I'd been on a massive Rowland bender for the most part of 2009, starting from the swindling of my Dad's records from back when he used to be cool. Hee Haw has become one of my favourite albums, and Death By Drowning one of my favourite songs.

My Dad keeps an insane amount of junk from when he was younger, including a bunch of old band shirts- that like his records, have taken up shop in my room. I think it's silly to wear band shirts if you don't know more than an albums worth of songs, so before I could wear the Birthday Party shirt out in public, I decided to read some books about them and fill my little brain full of facts so that I could offer an intelligent answer if anyone where to quiz me.

After all that, I realised I'd never, ever wear the shirt. I think it used to be black or dark blue, but it now rests at a nearly white grey. It would probably fall apart as soon as its nanna-like threads met with the wind (and that could be embarrassing for me because I never wear nice bras).

I had heard a few songs off Rowland's first album, never the whole album in it's entirety, but I really liked it. I've always had trouble getting people to come see bands with me because I'm not very nice, but I really, really wanted to go see him. After giving up of finding someone to take I decided to go alone, and I'm glad I did because he was amazing.

I'm sorry for wedging your beautiful music between You Drive Like A Cunt and Last Night I Got Drunk on my mix CD.

Rest In Peace Rowland x