2002-05-11

There have been a coupla Bitchcrafty things that I haven't written about...

One Friday in April, we played a Friday night at the Cambridge Hotel at the "Lab" night which is all alternate DJ music i.e Blink 182 and Creed and stuff. Hmmm....Go To Bed Jessica played with us and they were very energetic and nice. Damien had no ID so carried my amp in and hid inthe corner out of sight from the security. That night, the security guard was that nice, blonde, middle aged lady who loves our band and tells us so as we load out our gear from playing a gig at the Cambridge.

The theme that we had come up with was pink, and I didn't even think of it! All the girls were in pink, with lots of pink props and a nice "models Suck" sign on the wall behind us. We forgot to get it back, but suspect it is still there. Simone looked spunky in a black and pink polka dot dress she had worn when she was a young girl in a singing competition of the local eisteddford, so she looked suitable heinous. I've got some great photos from that show, but y'all will have to wait til I make the Bitchcraft web site, which will be really soon. I've gotta get scannin'! The show kicked arse...in that we rocked, y'know?

Over the months of May and June we have about 6 shows - aren't we lucky! Anyhow, I decided to do one flyer for the whole run of shows, dub it the "By name, by nature" tour and just keep putting them up over the next month. On the Tuesday night before our first May show, Simi, Jameh and I went postering around Newcastle town with our gooiest rice flour glue and a paint roller. There are quite a few legal postering spots in Newcastle luckily, as well as lots of building sites so we plastered the town.

This poster is now to be known as the 'banned' poster. When I first proposed using the image that features on the poster, I wasn't sure, in my isolation, if it was too 'full on'. I tend to be a bit numb to that sometimes, so I showed Michelle the picture of a bi-manual uterine examination out of the gynaecology textbook that I have. She laughed heaps, so I knew that it was good. Nardia said she didn't want to be taken THERE again, but we all agreed it was fookin' choice. Since then we have passed out or pasted up small A5 flyer versions or huuuge A2 bright yellow ones all over town, including an attempt to have the ladies at IGA Hamilton display it in their window which is always full of posters and flyers. Reports from the Hamilton Bitchpatrol say that it didn't even last a day before being removed. Most of the postes that were stuck on building sites or walls in the city have had the image part peeled off, whilst more benign posters (skatrek and the Church)next to ours are left alone.

Its pretty funny, eh? All the gory and violent images of wars and disasters we are forced to look at in the media and on other punk band posters (at times) are not as offensive as a diagram of a womb with a hand up it. The hand even has gloves on! Its clean! So many people are scared of wombs it makes me want to carry one around and wield it at people to keep them away form me. Or maybe a Tshirt: "DANGER!!! ARMED WITH WOMB!!!"

So, the first show listed on the banned poster has already passed, being a show at the Wickham Park Hotel with local perennials FAvours For EAchother and the rocker-stand-up-bass stylings of The Torpedoes and we were playing last for once. The Wickham Park Hotel is a tiny pub, where entry is free, its always rockin', cheap beers and has heaps of beer garden - it reminds me a little of the vibe of the olde Sando in Newtown at its best. The barmen know what you are drinking, everyone knows everyone and its smoky as hell.

We hadn't planned a theme, it was too hard. So Janice dressed disturbingly, as a man. She looked like she shoulda been in the Beastie Boys "Sabotage" video, wearing a wig and some 5o'clock shadow with really mannish clothes. Worst of all, she did the walk and the talk and she tried to hit on me and it was soooo disgusting!! Our Janice pulls of the manpants just fine.....ooooooh...

Can you believe we whipped out 4 new songs?? "Boy's Ahoy!", "Here's Your Fucking Fast Song", "Lip Service" and our cover of "Touch Me I'm Sick".

Last night we rehearsed, and as usual everyone was dog tired after work, children or just too many cones. Our sorry arses were draged to Ballisitix rehearsal studio and we amped up. It was a hoot, and I knew it would happen, but after2 songs those girls were whoopin' and a hollerin', dancin' like fools and chiry as. Aaaaah, the soothing properties of the rock can save the savage bitch.