DIY Wotz on Guide for the Easter Weekend 2006

For RA Brumbies heading for the Sunday thrashing of the Tahs – place to be after the game is the Royal Hotel, 5-ways, Paddo…just a shortish walk from the ground.

Cool, cheers for that Kerces.

My girlfriend and i were wondering were to go for our ritual saturday afternoon feed after we realised that the Ethiopian stall at Gorman House markets probably wont be open.

Signs on the side of the road say there’s a Thai food festival on Saturday 10-3ish at the Thai temple on Archbald St in Lyneham.

FREE GIGS x 2

5th Ave Crazy at the greenroom with the corgi crisis and 2 others on friday night.

The Ashburys at the Phoenix Bar on sat night

Now if I get to Melbourne by sunset Saturday after recovering from tonight’s anticipated hangover I can see decent sets from Conway Savage supporting the Dumb Earth at their CD launch at the Northcote Social Club, shop and pony up for Maurice Frawley and the Yardhands at the Greyhound on Sunday, pay whatever it costs to get in to both, taxi fares and still have change from what the folkie would have cost to see four days of six pipers a-piping, five fiddlers a-fiddling, four belly dancers a-shimmying…and so on ad nauseum…

And still be home in time to see the Fuellers at the Phoenix on Monday night…wonder which is the wisest choice.

When are the organisers going to realise that “freak folk” is a new and valid genre and put something a bit more relevant to modern tastes [eg in the manner of Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart, Josephine Foster…then it might be worth attending in spite of tangoing public servants and the like

eating chocolate and drinking beer in the name of a religion I think needs to be destroyed… I love being a hypocrite

Ssanta will be pissing it up in Sydney as well.

A core group of Team Terubo will be there too.

Gloria Jeans at the Belconnen Mall are starting a new music and coffee afternoon on Sundays: 12-2pm.
Starting this week with The Tullys
http://www.thetullys.com.au