Sunset at Cottesloe

On the way back from that rehersal last night I picked up Jane and the dogs at the beach and we watched the sunset. It takes about 3 minutes for the sun to set here (lattitude and all that craic) and its amazing the amount of colours that bounce around the sky as it sets. Here is a picture i took on my cameraphone through a sculpture overlooking the sea.

Oh, the rehersal: It was good. The other musicians there were absolute legends, i felt very much the underdog there, the cellists (2) both have their own albums out, one of the guys writes film scores and the two violinists are legends here in Perth. So we started off with a few tunes at the start of the book, one of which being the hendrix tune purple haze, with an 8 bar viola solo at the start going along the lines of this " thwak thwak, thwak thwak, dunmh dunmh dunmh dunmnmnnmmmnmhhhhhh, dunmh dunmh dunmh dunmnmnmnmmhmnmhmh" etc. So, head down, full volume, I ripped clean in, it was one of those times where no matter how hard you try you just CANNOT play any louder; anyhoo, while I was focusing on this the singer dude, who was standing just out of my vision to the left started jumping up and down, and then kissed me on the head. Twice. I think I passed the audition.

Snoozing pooches

Heres Fionn and Reilly going to sleep in their new bed



Reilly is a bit tired after a long days playing with the Fionn.

And here is the newbie, Fionn, who keeps getting stood on in the dark, he is so hard to see ge is like a ninja!

Another farside classic

Another farside classic from my desktop calender.

Quartet Rehersal

I have a rehersal tonight with this lot http://www.strungout.org.uk/ they play classical arrangements of pop tunes. Should be good fun if we can get gigging with it.

Daylight Savings Time

Back to normal now, 7 hour time differnce instead of the 9 hour gap, so Ill be online on MSN chat in the evenings/mornings if you are bord at work in Ireland.

The Cinema

I took a photo last night of the screen. We were watchint a "life size" family guy episode.

Sundays Events...

We all took off to the dog beach on sunday to take Fionn out for a play with other dogs and he went mental, he was really excited by the hundreds of dogs there and got a bit overwhelmed. Here is Fin going for his first dip in the sea.

And here he is afterwards playing with his pet dog

This was one of our gigs on sunday, what a laugh. It was an itish day out, gaa games, face painting, irish dancers and us (set up under that gazeeeeeeebo). We were playing DURING a game, the game took place behind us as the crowd looked on, as you can imagine the interest in our performance was about zero. Hilarious gig. THEN the gazeeeeeebo blew away and an acid fueled boozed up rave DJ came to the rescue and explained in great detail exactly how hard it was to fix this gazeeeeeeeeebo and that there was no way we could do it, so about 30 seconds later, once we had it fixed, we waited till he moved off and had a great big laugh. Har dee har har.

And our last gig for the weekend happened here, the Irish Club in Subiaco. Its a nice place, really laid back gig with a few scoops thrown in too.

The Daaaags

Heres reilly and Fionn having their breakfast.

And here they are having a bit of a nibble

Reilly is really funny in the car, she takes up about 90% of the seat and Fionn has to perth on the edge

And here they are having a cuddle in the back seat.

Day out with the lads

Adam and Fin popped around on saturday afternoon for a brewing session.

Here he is having sporting his new flash bib

And here he is with the keys of his new motor...

Guitar Shoppery

Here we are in Cosmic Sounds, a huge guitar shop in Perth, and Adam is trying out a brand new taylor guitar. Here we see him giving the guitar its annual tuning.....

It was a cool shop, guitars EVERYWHERE! All sorts of fancy cables, and devices too, including this plane hanging form the ceiling!

I know some sound engineers who should have this on their T-shirt.

Scoop Perch

Here is the shelf on the stage where I leave my pints when I am playing in JB O Reillys (friday nights) and I only just noticed the picture above it! What safer a place to leave your scoops mid tune eh?

Sunrise

Here's a little photo of sunrise over perth as viewed from kings park.

New Gadget

My phone broke during the week, the bottom row of buttons stopped working which meant I couldn't dial anyone with a zero in their number, so I went into the local mobile shop and a few hours later came out with this beauty. Its a palm, so it does all the same stuff that my organiser/mp3 player does and its also a phone and a camera, so that is two less things to carry about the place. I am going to trial it tonight at our gig and run the interval music off it and through the PA system, so if anyone calls between 1 and 4pm irish time, dont be suprised if you end up speaking with an entire pub of people......

The Hounds

Here is Reilly & Fionn in the kitchen waiting for dinner. They are great fun.

And here they are admiring the lovely new dishwasher ;)

Bosch Wash

Here it is in all its glory, our dishwasher. It took a while to fit as its 10cm wider than the cabinet i got it to fit into, lots of sawing and some cut fingers later, its all in working order. Ill never figure out how i lived without it!

Skype Video Calls

I finally got it figured out. I had issues with my webcam and never really got round to fixing it, but we managed it the other day and I got a video call going with Finbarr, the quality was pretty good, only a small bit of lag on the picture and the audio was really clear. Great Stuff.

Green Afro's

Here I am sporting my new hairstyle

Heres the band in the middle of the second gig

And here is the man of the moment enjoying his first Patricks Day by being eaten by a leprechaun.