We had our last rehearsal yesterday. We went pretty easy on ourselves and only ran through the entire show once. Fiona was there too, which was wicked. First time we got to do the whole thing as it will be on the night. And we got all excited about it again, even through the haze of exhaustion.
Today we kept it pretty low key. Christian and Nikki hung out here and we practiced a bit, but to be honest we spent most of the day lounging around watching Lost episodes back-to-back.
At 7:00 pm we all descended on Te Karanga for our first of three Inhibition Exhibition gigs - but this one we get to do with Nikki. We did a really quick sound check, had some food (highly recommend mango curry by the way), rocked down to the New Zealand's Greatest Idiot exhibition and then went back to our own gig.
We did two 15-minute sets in between rock bands. Poetry. In between rock bands. And this was our first ever public performance together. Between rock bands. But it was choice. The audience dug it. We performed really well. Few glitches with the sound set-up. But aside from that it was Orsum with a capital Oh!
It was a good night. We did feed Nikki to the local hippies though, but they liked her so much, who were we to interrupt?
Actually I dug Hey Pinky, I think she called me the salt of the earth. Or salt something anyway. Whatever, the tone was positive. I think we won the whole crowd over in the end, people were trying to predict lines, laughing in all the right places. Loved it. Here's Murray and Sabrina watching the band whilst being blinded by my flash.
We'll be around chalking on Queen St while Nikki performs at the Market Stage tomorrow at midday. Then off to London Bar to set up our stage and do our wonderful thang.
See you there.
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