Good for a cold Tuesday morning in Melbourne…

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“Normal” life started again today. After 2 months of touring, the months before planning & the past couple of weeks coming back to Earth, we’re back into the routine of life in Melbourne. Had a great weekend – it’s good to be home.

Taiwan looms in the distance, mid July. Feels like an eternity away – but it’ll roll around quick. We’re doing a few shows there, including Hohaiyan Rock Festival at Fu-Long beach in Taipei County.

Hohaiyan Rock Festival, Taiwan.

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Video Tour Diaries on YouTube as a complete series. We’ve compiled this 10 part video documentary, through Germany & China, into one full playlist – so you can hit the video below or our YouTube channel – and see all the drama in one hit! 20 shows across two continents, April and May this year.

These diaries were a little different from those we’ve shot before. We wanted to show more grit & behind-the-scenes stuff, highs and lows. It’s a way more candid look at life on the road. Darkly surprising how much of our day is spent inside a vehicle of some kind.

Next tour, I’m taking a Go Pro & Zoom. That’ll be wild…

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Final Episode of the German & China tour diaries, featuring an interview with Max talking about her most memorable moments – and Marty playing with the Beijing Bombers (Aussie Rules Football)…

We’re finally home – back from tour & a few days visiting our folks on the weekend.

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Latest video tour diaries, featuring our Houston drummer Kevin leaving us in Chengdu & our last tour shows as a 2-piece electro-rock band in Wuhan (kids went nuts) and Nanchang, where Max was nearly squashed by a rolling “cyclo-thing”…

Final Episode coming soon where Max gives us her tour highlights from Germany and China.

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Have we missed it while we’ve been away? Check this out – another of this weekend’s thrillers. A rare draw in Aussie Rules football, and on the weekend we arrived home. YEAH!

Next episode of the China video tour diaries coming soon. Hanging in Tamworth, country music capital of Australia. Great times with my family here. Missed em a lot.

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How was it last night! Thriller, heart-stopper. North Melbourne had it all night. And I feel so sorry for my best mate Craigie (Roos). But when Natanui took this hanger deep in the forward line in the dying seconds, the crowd hit fever pitch. He walked back for the kick. The siren sounded – game over. He stopped his run-up (always a danger), re-set and ran in again. The kick was dead straight, right through the middle. West Coast, winners by one solitary kick.

AFL football is a national health risk. I die every weekend, heart pounding, win or lose.

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Video tour diaries – part 8 from China, featuring shows in Chongqing and Chengdu.

Chilling in Tamworth, hanging with my folks & reflecting on the past couple of months in Germany and China. Working on the remaining couple of tour diary episodes before heading home to Melbourne. Interviewed Max in a Shanghai cafe last weekend on her best tour moments (to be featured in the last episode due in a couple of days). It’s so quiet out here in the Aussie country-side. No crazy horns blasting, rickshaw guys running, noise from the street. Just crickets & roos.

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Xinxiang University pic below from the China tour show there last month.

Pic courtesy of our China tour manager, Kim.

Off to Tamworth early tomorrow morning to see my folks. Looking forward to a few days hanging out there & debriefing the tour over a beer or two.

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Home, just a couple of hours ago. Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia. A little tired, 10 hour flight from Shanghai. Catching up with friends tonight at one of our local pubs. It’s a bit colder here than when we left, chill factor in the Melbourne air. 6 degrees when we got out at the airport. Nice sunny day all the same.

Out the front of our house.

The tour officially over, feeling like mission accomplished.

Shanghai airport last night.

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