Fun things #2

Then on Thursday evening I went to hear one of the guys in my connect group ("my mate Dave" - just name dropping that now incase he's big-time famous one day) and his band The Wild Frontier play for the Folk Club at the Hive Bar in Erskineville. (We joke about the connect group band we're going to form one day, because we have so much musical talent in ours, though I don't know that they'll want me and my flute.)

This was a good night. I asked the friend I have been reading the bible with if she wanted to come along (because you can't go to gigs if the only person you know is actually playing), and she jumped at it, so we got some dinner nearby first and went along. She cracks me up, dropping matter-of-fact lines all the time. For example, the venue has a cosy ambience (ie, it's not all that large, either downstairs of upstairs) and I was standing up against the bar downstairs initially, feeling like I still kept getting squeezed and jostled by everyone trying to get past, so I say 'I feel like I am in everyone's way here' and she says 'no, that's what people do in bars - take up space'.

Dave is very cool (seen here in the middle); he plays the banjo (bottom pic), which is all that needs to be said.

They played some of their own songs (you can listen online at the above link) and a couple of covers, one of Neil Young and another that was originally Dusty Springfield. There were four other acts on as well, all of which I enjoyed. A girl even got up to read poetry, and, much as I appreciate poetry, I thought to myself 'this could be painful', but she was great! I've now joined the group Shut the Folk Up!