Jamie Lidell @ The Forum and Digitalism @ the Metro - 9th January

Earlier that day......


"Sophie: So Isi put us on the guest list for their show at the metro last week which was Digitalism sorted. who's this Lidell guy you've been telling me about?

Nic: JAMIE LIDELL aka GOD AMONG MEN. A skinny white boy with the soul of a motown hero - HOW CAN YOU BE UNAWARE OF HIS GLORIOUS EXISTENCE?

Sophie: Ok we must know someone that can put us on the door right...


10 minutes later....


Nicole: Sorted?

Sophie: yup"


And so the night began with a few staple gin and tonics at the Cricketers and Zan retelling the story of his girlfriend dumping him by means of ice coffee move. Zan is now writing a stern letter to the manufacturers of said ice coffee beverage company, holding them wilfully responsible for the collapse of his relationship. "Dear Move Corp. I feel I am owed an apology and compensation by means of either A) money or B) a new and prettier replacement girlfriend.... "

Sophie: and then we left for Guestlist Event #1. This had better be good Nic....

Nicole: Ahhhh Sophie. My love. My sweet, sweet darling girl. JUST WAIT.

Sophie: I take back any apprehension, it was amazing... Tell the part about dying every night...

Nicole: So the title track on Jamie's latest album Jim is called 'Another Day' - he went into this song and said he believes that the end of each day is a death, so the next day is a rebirth. Which means you have a chance to start all over again, and the past doesn't matter. Which I thought was pretty amazing, it really touched me actually. Especially when I realised it meant I could forget the time I talked about salad for 30 minutes to someone I didn't know. Oh look I'm talking about salad again.....

Sophie: and then on to Guestlist Event #2. Now usually you're told you're on a guestlist and you arrive, she checks her clipboard, name's not there, you ask her to check again, still not there, you spell your surname "yep it's with an I not a U". Nope, sorry you're not on the list. But this time we were not only on the list but given AAA passes and told we were "invited to the after-party backstage"

Nicole: if you've been to the Metro you'll know there isn't really a backstage area as such...

Sophie: So she means a party in the dressing room....

Nicole: Exactly. Ew. The sleaze. The ugly photographer ogling me was kind of the cherry on the sundae really....They didn't even have enough alcohol. The gig was good though right? I mean.... I'm not sure because I was distracted by all the guys taking their shirts off, sweatily dancing. And I don't mean that in a good way. The highlight was when Zan and I witnessed the frantic moves of one chem-sweat soaked guy result in such a pooling of sweat on the floor, that a guy walking past actually slipped over in it....

Sophie: The played a good set. Haven’t really seen the Metro that nuts before.


Nicole: Not really my scene as it turns out. But I was sticking it out for you Soph. Wingman. That's what they call me. I mean it's only fair - I got to see Jamie, I accompany you to Digitalism


Sophie: if there was some type of Oscars Awards for wingman-ism you’d be Meryl Streep.


Nicole: Is it rude to say Dan Single and Mark Hunter are tragic, ugly, old and make me really sad? Well I said it anyway.... What was your highlight of the night Soph?


Sophie: leaving? Nah. The text from Isi 10 mins after we left was sweet. Nice to know he missed us! I’ll end this post with the FB message he sent me last night.

yaman

yes the trip was nice sleep alot

it was good

time was running fast from singapore on

waz up how are you

and noproblem the next time agian and agian

say hello 2 my love city sydney and down under have fun and talk soon

greetz

isi

We're working on it...

Posts to come on

Digitalism

Jamie Lidell

Oh Mercy

Mercury is in Retrograde. Plus some of us have been drunk and gallavanting around town. Or possibly both of us......

Back soon. 

Puma Archive Uncovered. Salads Exposed.

Puma Archive Uncovered (The Hives, Children Collide, Boy + Girl) @ The Metro, and The Kooks @ The Hordern
January 5, 2009



Nicole: Let’s be honest and straight up here from the outset – we went to the Puma Archive Uncovered party because
a) Sophie’s job requires it, and
b) I had (or have?) a small crush on a guy in one of the bands. I'd call it more of an 'intellectual connection' actually. I appreciated his dry WIT.

Actually do you think they would they read this Sophie? It is kind of essential to the story that I mention he did drive us home from Pyramid Rock, so anybody could guess the band now anyway....

Sophie: He’s too busy being generally awesome in a generally awesome rock band to read this blog so we’re fine. Continue.

Nicole: Anyway moving on - we got there nice and early after a drink at the Hollywood with Little Sare. First band on was Boy + Girl. Who the fuck are they?

Sophie: If Van She were a bottle of Beck’s, they’d be the dregs left in said bottle the day after the party.

Nicole: They sucked. I can’t even remember what songs they covered, probably Michael Jackson or some equally generic and uninspired. BORING.

Sophie: Let’s put them in the ‘Band’s that suck balls. Derivative-electro-pop balls’ category and move the fuck on. Yes Cassette Kids, you’re in there too.

Nicole: Children Collide however.... That cover of The Police ‘Walking on the Moon’ was amazing...

Sophie: I think that’s the only song the crowd actually got. That Brian Eno cover was amazing but totally lost on an audience of Sydney try-hard hipsters. Johnny tends to be too awesomely creative for his own good. BTW if they took the word ‘awesome’ out of the dictionary... i’d be in serious trouble.

Nicole: It’s at this point we run down the stairs, onto the street and jump in a cab because we have tickets for the Kooks at the Hordern. Which we’re really late for, but we met these guys last time they were out here doing a secret show so we’d already seen them a few months ago.

Sophie: Oh yeah, that night Luke pashed me. Hard to forget really.

Nicole: Oh yeah! We didn't stay for long - I was in that indie snob frame of mind. I looked around at all the losers there and it just turned me off them.... So it was back to the Metro for the Hives. Walked up into the bar and spotted our friend from Children Collide so we go up to say hi..... And I launch into a really really boring story about salad.....

Sophie: That salad story was amazing Nicole. If the desired effect was to make him think you’re an over-starved, over-stupid model ... what were you thinking!

Nicole: Oh it was brilliance. I described everything from my interaction with the waiter, to the moment I realised I couldn’t finish the salad (because every guy loves a girl who might possibly have an eating disorder), the ingredients, it’s relative ‘filling-ness’ on the salad scale (1 being a standard rocket and oil salad, 10 being one of those salads you get in the US where salad just means ‘a huge bowl of torn up meat, eggs, mayonnaise and whatever else we can think of. No there is no bread – carbs are fattening). It was really really good - his eyes were all glazed. I could have stopped but.... why would I? I enjoyed it.

Sophie: And he just stood there with that “umm...ooookay then” look in his eyes....

Nicole: I know! So then we went in to watch the Hives who were all decked out in their little matching jackets, sweating away. Loved their strange Swedish/American hybrid accents. They covered a song by The Hellacopters! Unfortunately I can’t remember what song that was.....

Sophie: Think is was '(Gotta get some action) NOW!' and you can watch the illegally filmed (not by me) video HERE.
[IRRELEVANT] QUESTION: Name a song that has the sound of a helicopter in it.
ANSWER: The Happiest days of Our Lives - Pink Floyd

Nicole: It’s the afterparty we really need to get to though. We went to Sugarmill in the Cross to hang out with the Kooks – mainly because they weren’t rude and arrogant enough the first time we met them. Sophie gives everyone a second chance to prove they’re not assholes.... I’m not as forgiving, but I did go along as moral support... I was standing at the bar with Sophie and this guy came up to me and said “You’re FUNNY. Have you seen the movie Patch Adams?”. Um - what the FUCK?

Sophie: Ha! What about that really awkward moment when I asked Luke about dating Mischa Barton. “So read in WHO you’re dating Mischa now?”. “well, i’d more say it was courting”. “ah yeah, and how’s that going for ya?” [Luke stares blankly and resumes conversation with the girl standing on his other side]. Anyway, Mischa is a mole so whatever. PS you forgot about Jesus. He was nice, and tall. And why didn’t we go to Judgement bar to see the others – the Hives were there!?

Nicole: Oh god you didn't tell me that! Well you know I was super keen for the Judgement Bar..... so I'm afraid we need to blame you. Oh Jesus was okay, but I heard a few stories about him later on that made me doubt him. Perhaps not safe for the internet?

Sophie: No censorship here lady... but I'm actually bored of him now so unless they're really funny....

Nicole: Nah. Not really. I also got to the end of this blog and realised I am completely over that band guy too. NEXT.