We’ve been near-ubiquitous in Sydney this year – we looked back at the start of September and realised we’d played about twenty shows in eight months… it was starting to wear on us as well. I think we got a bit of perspective on that when Jon was reading Michael Azzerad’s (essential) Our Band Could Be Your Life and Azzerad was describing how Mission of Burma played way too often in Boston – “sometimes as often as twice a month”. Twice a month! Well shit… perhaps we should play less than that? Maybe we would consequently enjoy it more?
So you’ll have noticed not so many Intentions shows happening in Sydney the last two of months, which has been quite a nice (and much-needed) break from playing live – we’re regrouping, writing new songs, chilling out, and finishing off mixing the 7″ we’re putting out (oh yes we are!) &c &c. So we have only two more shows confirmed for the rest of this year, and we’ve resolved to play less often in Sydney next year as well, which I’m sure will come as a relief to most of Sydney’s DIY community.
We’ve just returned from a tour of Adelaide. As always when coming home from a tour, we’re feeling exhausted, but also refreshed, having been reminded:
- why we love DIY
- that we’re not entirely crazy to want to drive nearly 3000km in 5 days
- that we may be crazy to persist at living in Sydney when there are other places that have late-night vegan dessert bars
etc. Seriously, it’s just so great to have an excuse to go to new places, hang out with people, and hear new music that we’d have no chance to otherwise. And we played alright too! Thanks go out to Nick Godfrey for organised the whole darned thing and Johns T and K (and housemates) for hosting us. Hopefully we’ll get some photos and stuff up here of the trip real soon.
-Si
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