Well well well, January has been a little diva of a month, I've seen more bands & artists in one month than i probably have in my entire life. Everyone just seems to want to play in Melbourne, there are so many events you could quit your job and be a full-time festival goer, the music scene here is far from quiet, and where they are my camera follows!
From working at Zest Marketing I have met alot of british people, having been living with aussie's and all my friends australian with the exception of fellow STApom jamey t, it has been quite the novelty to hang out for beers with brits again. A few of us went to an Andy C drum & bass gig @ THE HI-FI (http://www.thehifi.com.au) which was a dancing clammy spectacle of a night, topped with 'japanese slipper' cocktails at 'Hollywood' karaoke bar. With Zest we also spent a night with food & music at the late night Victoria Market, spent evenings drinking at Fed Square at Transport & in the city at The Curtain House building. There is alot of competition setting in the time spent together, one of which I unfortunately lost. This resulted in me having a carton of milk poured all over my back and neck in the morning before having to work the rest of the day by Nath my comp partner, who may i add just scraped a win & enjoyed a beer at my expense :) Another loser Dan, had his arm waxed by his partner and Sin had to eat a whole onion (yes he was sick) among other forfeits across the teams. Ledge company! I've learnt alot of marketing skills and great attitude & new confidence which can be applied to many area's of work, since having left uni, it has also been nice to be in a educational environment again. Im not going to lie, i'm abit of a geek and love a good inspirational lecture!
As you have probably noticed, the Australian Open Tennis is on at the moment and its causing quite a buzz in the city. I went along last week with some friends from work and scouted some free tickets off people leaving to get into the grounds...what, i'm not a backpacker as such, but I still need to look after the cents! We went firstly see Ladyhawke perform on the Heineken stage and then took a pick at one of the smaller courts for some doubles action. Later we went to the Tsonga (french) vs Almagro (spanish) match in a larger stadium, you could say this game took my tennis virginity as it was the first big game i'd watched. The atmosphere was amazing and it really surprised me how interactive the crowd were, i loved it, I later saw mine and Ally's little smiling faces several times on a playback of the match on Channel 7 Sport on the TV at home! As i have been writing this I have been watching the mens Grand Slam final and unfortunately our GB hope Murray just lost to Federer, winning his 16th Major.. urm greedy comes to mind, you could have given us one Rodger mate!
Last Tuesday 26th Jan held the yearly celebrated Australia Day, a day that the nation gets off work to celebrate Australia and all things Australian. We celebrated at our house with a classic barbecue with friends and listened to Triple J radio station's top 100 countdown of songs from 2009. The only tedious thing about this is that whilst listening, you are not allowed to exclaim that you 'love this song!!' or any similar comment otherwise down your drink goes -skull, skull. Later in the evening I went to Federation Square to meet with Jamey to watch the Murray vs Nadal game in the Atrium on the big screen & then to see the fireworks set off to a huge admiring crowd in the square. During the whole day I had to wear an australian flag at all times to make up for the fact I wasn't an australian (whatever that is, aren't they all pom's originally anyway?!) It was another of those days when you just think, god Oz is good.
The very last thing I did was the fabulous Melbourne 'Laneway' festival yesterday (http://melbourne.lanewayfestival.com.au). This tours many cities across Australia, and as the name suggests, constructs various stages & takes over lanes in the city for a day of leading a new music. My luuvely welsh friend Dee lives on the chosen location for this years Melbourne Laneway festival in Footscray, so she managed to get us some free Residents passes for the event, ledge! It was perfectly hot, and during the day I saw Mumford & Sons, The XX, Midnight Juggernauts, Dappled Cities & Florence and the Machine, who all equally rocked full stop. However this music malarky has got to stop, no matter how much fun ive been having, it's been a great start to 2010 but I need to do more work now to save for an Ayres rock/ middle australia trip I want to plan. I have just applied to work at the Melbourne Grand Prix which is in march & cross fingers and toes I get a position as I'm a Prix fan & we have an all English car & driver team this year, so we may not have the Tennis but bring on the F1!
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