We held a secret show yesterday in our lounge, testing a concept about doing a cruisy weekend afternoon gig outside of the well-worn pub environment. It turned out to be one of the most fun shows we’ve done for a while. We’d converted the room into a half-pub, half lounge-room kinda space – PA, amps & backdrop on one side, couch, chairs & coffee table on the other. The Vagrants (Steve & Renata) opened proceedings & gave us acoustic versions of classic Vagrants tunes. The crowd loved it. We hit the ‘stage’ around 4pm & cranked out some old ‘Yak Bar’ favourites from the first album. Songs we haven’t done in years like ‘Possibly Human’ & ‘Any One Time’. Campbell broke out the bag-pipes during the encore for ‘Group Therapy’. People stuck around to shoot the breeze under the back verandah heater, which Stalk kindly lent us for the day, for a few hours after the show. Really great catching up with everybody – we don’t often get the chance at a pub gig. Looking forward to more shows here in the lounge.

Campbell bagpipes the encore at yesterday’s house concert. Pic courtesy of the mighty Mal Bowker.

Fires out.