Everyone In The Comments Section Is Gonna Prove You Wrong
It happens like that. Snap ya clicky digits and old mate is gone, literally, loads of miles south to places where the air is (hopefully) cleaner and those pop-ins you promised to do regularly are heaps harder to actually do. Meanwhile, mid-week cold ones reveal summer stories of murdered relatives even more miles away, cancer treatments for teens, unexpected employment changes etc etc. And my own life shifts (why is that little shit waking up at 5:30am every morning screaming "mummy"?) suddenly don't seem on the same scale. Alas, we'll always have the hits - and here's two more of them.
Firstly, the latest from "full-hearted DIY pop [band]" Crane Games, a beauty-full-wordy-two-min-ramble about accepting the things we can't change and having the wisdom to know that sitting on a hill at Henson Park or wherever watching the world pass by is heaps better than being on the field getting mauled by some Wentworthville Magpies part-time-butcher/full-time-infringer. Metaphorically speaking.
Part two picks up this same strand of coathanger town smog city guitar-pop, with the endlessly-quotable Gus Hunt (Unity Floors) leading new match-ready "supergroup" Stressless around the park on their long-awaited first uploaded offering "Prove U Wrong". Urgh, I winch at that "supergroup" statement too, but also - with equal parts of an eclectic spectrum mix (Basic Hinge, Richard in Your Mind, Headwires) - expect future output to go wide and (sticking with this pathetic pre-season rugby league metaphor) maybe chip-n-chase, maybe goose-step, maybe get tackled, stay down and milk it for the mandatory ten-in-the-bin punishment to the opposition. Yeah, wild.
Conveniently, both these bands will be performing side-by-side (at seperate times) this Saturday at the Petersham Bowling Club, with additional support from S-Bends. Doors at eight, with all proceeds split between two bushfire relief organisations - Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation and Egg Boy and Magda Szubanski's fundraiser for mental health.