As I mentioned, I wasted no time hanging around Ksubi. I wanted laksa, guitars and sweat, and there is one band in Australia that I will happily pass up free booze for – 6ft Hick. But, last Friday was even better, cos it was Gentle Ben and His Sensitive Side as support – a quiet night out with the brothers Corbett. At my favourite venue, The Annandale. That, my friends, is an orgiastic triumvirate of sensory delights!
I love Gentle Ben, but have always missed my chance to see them live. They lived up to every overblown expectation I may have had for them. I was looking forward to hearing so many of their songs – you know I love a good lyric and these guys have got 'em in spades, but in the end, my favourite was their rendition of the Go-Betweens 'Was There Anything I Could Do'. Hadn't heard the song for years, but as soon as I heard it I went "This is how the song should be". I was going to link to their myspace for you, but it seems to have caught a gremlin and just plays some crap electronica music track over the top of theirs, so you'll have to do your own investigations, but you do owe it to yourselves to give them a listen.
6ft Hick?
As Bonnie Tyler so succinctly put it, it's like those boys are "living in a powder keg and giving off sparks". Songs like "Hot Chicken Hero" and "Smoking in Bed' are delivered, machine gun fired, at the audience, accompanied by an always bewitching, shocking and hilarious stage performance that keeps me and so many others coming back for more every time. Don't wear your white silk blouse, you may get bled on. If you don't know who these guys are, WAKE UP, or perhaps soon we'll all get lucky when they're music and antics are brought to screen – it oays to google.
I've never taken my grown-up camera to one of their gigs, I don't want to be tied down by it, I just want to have fun, and by the end of fashion week I was pretty over taking pictures. I still couldn't resist stealing Patti's camera to take a few myself, and I've kind of amassed quite a few pics of Hick gigs over the last few years that I've never posted, so I thought I'd just throw in a montage now for your viewing pleasure….
Sonny's pics, Nov 07
Sonny's again, Aug 09
My phone cam, last Friday. Wow that red is bleeding, at least on my screen
Patti's camera last Friday
with Leisa
and Patti
Aug 09. My pics, Sonny's dinky camera
Phone cam, Jan 09
I like this one
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The best way to wind up that week!
Finally, for my Sydney fashion week wrap-up –
Best show to photograph, Romance Was Born
Best music and overall look, Gail Sarronda
Collection I saw that I'm most likely to wear, Zimmerman and Flannel
Nicest people (including models), the ones who smile back when you smile at them
I have to give my most gracious thankyous… to Scott – for unknowingly allowing the tilt-shift to travel all over fashion week with me, and with it's bent and blurred eye feast upon gorgeous girls. I'm sure Scott would have happily taken the len's place, though not been as useful for me. Thankyou, Scott.
To Sonny, for agreeing to have me haunt him all that busy week under the premise of doing a small amount of work, and letting me use the 1.2 almost exclusively. Most of all though, for having faith in me. Thanks, honey.
*I am sorry, though. I profess slackness. I was going to pretty the band photos up a little. You know, a bit of black and white here, a splash of saturation there, but I'm blogged out, and like I said last week, I haven't even put up any pics from Fiji last year or Europe in 2008. Apropos to fashion week, I'm slimming down – at least until I catch up a little.
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