Staying at a friend’s place (Al) in Thornbury (Melbourne’s northern suburbs) til the weekend, then back to the country for more writing. New songs on the way…
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This video shot on a phone from the audience at Midi Festival, Beijing last month. Check the crowd surfer…
Kent sent me the link to this video from Chinese site YouKu.
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Shot from last month’s Midi Festival in China…
(Thanks to longtruong’s Flickr page for the pic above)
By the time we got off stage at Midi we were all covered in a fine film of dust whipped up by a gigantic mosh pit.
China Tour documentary coming soon – we’ve just finished the editing phase.
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Kicking back here at South West Rocks on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia. It’s unseasonably cold here. We still went down to the beach today all the same. On the other side of the world, Max is still in Tennessee tonight, flying to New York City tomorrow.
Zebra Festival China, May 2011
It’s now been 2 weeks since I flew back into Australia. I think it was a good call to stay with my folks out in remote country towns while winding down from the US & China tours. It’s been like one absolute extreme to the other. Nothing moves too fast at all here & you can feel yourself walking & talking slower, blending into the town’s local pace. It’s almost hard to believe we were in the touring ‘tornado’ through China just 16 days ago.
Working on new songs.
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It’s late Sunday night here in Moore Creek, Australia. New songs are coming – another screaming birth tonight.
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Something different today…
We’re now at the end of the first week off-tour from the USA & China. I’d emailed Kent a couple of days ago about the Roos in my Mum’s backyard – so I shot this video. Mum (Maddy) lives at Moore Creek about 15 kms (8 miles) from Tamworth, northern New South Wales, Australia. The two Kangaroos in the video were winding up for the day. They’re nocturnal (it was about 9am).
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Video from Zebra Fest, Chengdu, China earlier this month. Sky Caves In…
Landed at Sydney airport last Wednesday arvo. The past 5 days have been a blur of sleep & slotting back into Aussie life. I’m based in a very small country town in the north of New South Wales – the trees, birds and croaking frogs a universe away from the seething populous mass that is life in China.
It always feels really weird coming off tour and landing back in the relative calm of Australia. Like beaming to another planet. I don’t know whether I’m going through some kind of depression, disorientation, recovering from sleep deprivation – or whether it’s a mix of everything. Either way, I’m starting to come good today.
By all reports (Facebook), Max is having a good wind-down in northern California and Kent’s loving being back in Atlanta, Georgia.
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