We collected our hire car and packed our belongings for Wollongong Uni quietly confident that tonight’s ‘End of Session’ party was going to be pretty large. It turned out to be a more sedate affair: ‘End of Session’ means the end of classes and the start of exams. A fair few people tempted fate and shunned their studies for us, and for that, we love you. Then we left.
Arriving home at 2.30am the night before meant the 7am wake-up for the Albury flight was red-eyed and memorable. I really love the randomness of check-in: ‘will we get charged for excess this time?’ or ‘will we get someone who sympathises and is kinda excited that we’re in a band and asks “which band are you”, only to draw a blank when we say Urthboy and Horrorshow?’ We proceed through the x-ray and see if they don’t choose Adit to test for explosive devices – his browner skin means he’s usually last to the shitty airport coffee stand.
ROI Bar Albury feat. Timmy
Albury hasn’t changed much since our last visit, the crowd are loose and excellent tonight – buying way more merch than is reasonable for 200 people. We last spot Solo clearing off into the night with a couple locals..
Next morning we dropped a very pale Solo to the airport in the safekeeping of Adit, while we drove to Canberra for the Stonefest Festival.
Someone get Solo some berocca or 10 hrs sleep
It must’ve been 35 degrees when we hit the stage and a big crowd braved the heat to check us out. Apart from us, Art vs Science and Josh Pyke, the lineup is all rock music and despite wanting a dose of Frenzal Rhomb, we bailed out of there early..
Spitshine Week 6 – Wollongong, Albury & Stonefest
Thurs Oct 29
We collected our hire car and packed our belongings for Wollongong Uni quietly confident that tonight’s ‘End of Session’ party was going to be pretty large. It turned out to be a more sedate affair: ‘End of Session’ means the end of classes and the start of exams. A fair few people tempted fate and shunned their studies for us, and for that, we love you. Then we left.
Arriving home at 2.30am the night before meant the 7am wake-up for the Albury flight was red-eyed and memorable. I really love the randomness of check-in: ‘will we get charged for excess this time?’ or ‘will we get someone who sympathises and is kinda excited that we’re in a band and asks “which band are you”, only to draw a blank when we say Urthboy and Horrorshow?’ We proceed through the x-ray and see if they don’t choose Adit to test for explosive devices – his browner skin means he’s usually last to the shitty airport coffee stand.
ROI Bar Albury feat. Timmy
Albury hasn’t changed much since our last visit, the crowd are loose and excellent tonight – buying way more merch than is reasonable for 200 people. We last spot Solo clearing off into the night with a couple locals..
Next morning we dropped a very pale Solo to the airport in the safekeeping of Adit, while we drove to Canberra for the Stonefest Festival.
Someone get Solo some berocca or 10 hrs sleep
It must’ve been 35 degrees when we hit the stage and a big crowd braved the heat to check us out. Apart from us, Art vs Science and Josh Pyke, the lineup is all rock music and despite wanting a dose of Frenzal Rhomb, we bailed out of there early..
Backstage Stonefest Art vs Science in background
And then everyone lived happily ever after…