Last night was superb… The support was Mihi Rangi, ex-Akasa. She looked familiar when she got on-stage and her voice and percussion were amazing but it wasn’t until she did “World Citizen” and said she was ex-Akasa that I realised who she was. She was doing it all with a loop pedal so it was frigging incredible. It’s the first time I’ve seen her perform since Mel Shanahan killed herself, since I wasn’t here for the funeral and can’t remember why I didn’t make it to the 2nd anniversary refugee fundraiser memorial concert on December 10 last year… hmmm…
And of course, Blue King Brown were great. Their last songs of the set are always wild, with great basslines and irresistable percussion. In some ways, I can’t wait until they are more established so that we have a wider range of fantastic songs for them to choose from and the weaker tracks currently in the middle of the gig will just vanish. They always open strong with a powerful pure percussion piece, arranged during the SKIN days, and then go into some reggae and harder material, but really it’s “Water” and that last track they end on which doesn’t even seem to be on the EP that are the most powerful so far. Yay for crystal_storm who joined me and foregroundmusic and quackhandle (students of mine from last semester) who were there to shake their booty too.
Yesterday daytime was pretty good too. rickybuchanan and I caught up for lunch and had fun playing font identification games with Identifont which I’d almost forgotten about and talking about life, the universe and everything.
Tonight, we have a choice between a free refugee music festival at Kensington Community Centre or spending money I don’t have right now to see another Oscar-nominated film. I know which I ought to be doing… but I also know which one is easier to do on my own — anyone interested? Also, xammy is in town for the documentary conference, and he’s suggesting lesbian stand-up comedy… I’ve never been a huge stand-up fan, but we’ll see.