The 3rd and final Taiwan Video Tour Diary – the typhoon episode. On our way back from the last tour show at Revolver Bar in Taipei (last week), Typhoon Soulik slammed into the city making for one scary cab ride home. You gotta see this…
Off to the Dandelion Wine show tonight at Reverence Hotel, Footscray.
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Our friends Dandelion Wine play tomorrow night at the Reverence Hotel , Footscray (Melbourne).
Dandelion Wine.
The guys have toured Europe for years, starting back in 2002. Always great catching up & swapping tour tales…
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Here’s a short 3 minute version of the Taiwan Video Tour Diary Part 2, featuring Ho-Hai-Yan festival in Taipei…
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2nd Episode of the Taiwan tour diary – Ho Hai Yan festival. Hard to believe it was only last week. Awesome.
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First Part of our Taiwan video tour diary below – Melbourne to Taipei & the lead up to the Ho Hai Yan festival.
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Just got in. So tired. No sleep since Saturday night. Back on the horse this fine Melbourne Monday morning.
Ho-Hai-Yan festival Wednesday last week in Taipei.
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Typhoon Soulik passed last night. We got caught in some heavy stuff on the way home from last night’s show at Revolver Bar. Trees down all over the road & torrential rain. Relieved to be back at the hotel. We fly back home tomorrow.
Ho-Hai-Yan Festival 10th July 2013.
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Playing a show at Revolver Bar in Taipei tonight. That is, if Typhoon Soulik doesn’t stop us. The category 3 typhoon is expected to hit Taipei in about half an hour, gusting winds up to 200km/hr. It’s apparently serious enough for schools & some businesses to close for the day. The 3-day Ho-Hai-Yan festival we played on day one, Wednesday, has also been shut down & re-scheduled. The guy at hotel reception said we’d better get food now because there’s no going outside when this thing hits. Gotta get back to the hotel.
Wednesday at Ho-Hai-Yan festival, Taiwan.
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An amazing day yesterday at Ho-Hai-Yan festival in Taipei. We arrived early at 10am for sound-check. Clear blue skies on the beach-front main stage, it already felt like 40 degrees. Sound-check done we had about 7 hours til show time. Tried sleeping back-stage but it was too hot in the band tent. Went for a swim to cool off late in the afternoon. We hit the stage at 6pm. Probably the best festival show we’ve ever done. So much fun. Sky Caves In was a personal highlight. Turned into an epic 12 minute journey with a huge building techno jam in the middle – Max on hands and knees poised over her keys, in Hendrix-style instrument worship. Totally nuts. Crowd went ballistic.
Ho-Hai-Yan festival – Taipei, Taiwan 10th July 2013.
We’re both high on the whole thing today. What a wild show. We’ve got some incredible footage & still shots, and the whole thing was filmed for television. When we finally got back to the hotel last night, there was some amazing first vision on the news. Apparently, they’re editing the show for national broadcast later this week.
We’ll be posting pics and video soon as we can.
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Final rehearsal today for the Ho-Hai-Yan Festival tomorrow. A little tired now & back at the hotel. Resting up. Easy one tonight. Big big day tomorrow. We’ve got the sunset time-slot on the main stage. Should be brilliant.
Buddhist Temple Taipei yesterday morning.
Yesterday we got up early & went down to a Buddhist temple in Taipei. Awesome. Took a whole bunch of video for the tour diaries. Locals crowded in there for Monday morning prayers.
Adrenaline running for tomorrow.
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