clap your hands, assignments due!

Myself, Brad, Ben and Yoko went to the Hi-Fi Bar on Tuesday night to see American band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. It was a freezing night in Melbourne, but the heat of a thousand hipster music fans was enough to warm the inside of the venue. The opening band was called New Estate (melbourne), and featured a somewhat tubby drummer stuffed into a scout shirt. Lets just say watching him play the drums was mesmerising.. kinda like a lava lamp is mesmerising. OK, that was a cheap shot - I actually really liked them. The drummer completely stole the show though - he even sang a couple of numbers. The whole band was completely nerdy and not hipster - which was their appeal for me. I hate indie hipster bullshit - would much prefer to watch or play in a band full of normal people who just really love music.

CYHSY were good. Good like cheese on toast is good. Not great, and not shit, just good (was it Damon Albarn who said that? I cant remember). The band had quite the cast of characters - a drummer that looked like Chuck Norris, twins on bass and guitar, Napoleon Dynamite on keys and the singer with that voice. Not much stage presence going with this lot, though plenty of smarm from the singer. Perhaps a little too much smarm. Anyway, my ears hurt for a couple of days after. It was fucking loud.

Im edging closer to the end of Semester one on the uni front, which means everything is due. I spent 6 hours last night fucking with httperf and webalizer on an apache server for an assignment. Not exactly my idea of fun. I also have a photo journal due, of which I have done little to no work on. I'll get onto that over the weekend.

Tonight, we are heading into the studio it seems, so I'll get whatever pictures, video and sounds I can; and if they dont completely suck, I'll be sure to put something online.