A Very Special Birthday. · Sunday February 26, 2006
I guess I was wondering what you were doing on the weekend. I’ve got tickets to this show. It’s free you know and..clare bowditch – lips like oranges
The morning of my 21st birthday, when I’d had a few hours sleep I woke up with a Clare Bowditch tune in my head.. “Step on out of line / Outside the square / I dare you…” ..and the happy realisation that I needed her album. It had only been a few hours sleep since the midnight beginning of the 25th had been welcomed in while at the Amplifier/Capitol WAMi Indie Rock Showcase. Of the many many bands, Red Jezebel and New Rules For Boats at the end of the night were clear highlights. I was happy to have stuck around to listen and arrive home around 2am, though I believe I am still on Melbourne-time since I’m waking up naturally between 6 and 7am at the moment.
The actual and anticipated birthday celebrations were to be at the Verandah (sic) at the Perth Concert Hall on the night of the 25th. The champagne was organised, and I picked up a cake that morning – a good thing about organising your own cake is that you get to pick out one that you like. Orange chocolate mudcake it was then. Taking it and other supplies to a friends place via the public transport system, a bunch of girls dressed in tight hot pink and fluro yellow (and the like) caught the same as I and though it certainly looked like fun, it made me glad I was having a 20’s/30’s/40’s dressing up theme for my own celebrations.
Getting ready with my bandmates was much fun, they really are a lovely trio. Special thanks goes to the lady that did my hair. (Who also lent me a Clare Bowditch cd which only now I have the chance to listen to.)
Moving onto the PCH and making ourselves known, we bought noodles and rice, having forgotten to have dinner! Though I didn’t have much patience for the eating I must admit. This was because a band I am more than rather fond of was soon to be playing on the stage at the other end of the Verandah.
The lovely thing about Perth is the reliability of its weather to stay fine on a summer night such as this one, and an outdoor gig on such nights is a beautiful experience. The Verandah is a brilliant venue too.
Sorry, I’m getting tired of trying to write this now. The friend I’m staying with while I try to find a place to live is filming a short film and the cast are noisy! So to summarise:
Augie March played – And my habitual tortured syntax cannot let me express!!! Friends signed in, swing band swung for all to dance to, talented swing dancers stunned and inspired, and later back indoors there was cake. Best Birthday Ever – That’s really all there is to say I guess!
O, tomorrow uni is back.
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Happy birthday. It’s Ange’s (my girlfriend) birthday today, and she’s 25. I note that I am in fact over 10 years older than you, but you’re not the only friend I have of that age, so. Um. There.
Sounds like a lovely day anyway! Hope that I/we get to Perth in the next few months… Maybe July or August or so.
— Peter 26/02/06 01:57 PM #