music for a broken mind

[reverancepavane]

Important gigs for the upcoming next few months (for my reference because otherwise I'd forget).
10 May	The Graveyard Train The Gov ($20) Melbourne horror country drunken bearded stompy chain smashy madness band. (with Bearded Gypsy and The Bakers)
19 May	The English Ale (& Spiral Dance & Damh the Bard) Mylor Oval ($15) [Found a way to get up there.]
22 May	Damh the Bard Sponsors Concert The Wheatie (-)
9 June	Clare Bowditch ACF Space ($40)
14 June	Lisa Mitchell Flinders St Baptist Church (?) The bvenue means I probably won't be going. Breaking down in screams of pain three-quarters through the performance is not the best way to appreciate music).
16 June	Dandelion Wine (& Leigh Stardust) The Wheatie (free)
20-23 June	Tripod ACF Banquet Room ($40)
30 June	Spiral Dance Yule Feast Port Adelaide ($45) Sci-Fi theme. Would try my Space Pirate Harlock costume again except someone has run off with the cloak... Makes me less enthusued to appear. That and the distance and cost to create a new costume. I don't think my Starblazers costume would fit any more. And I'm not shaving my beard again to do a Buck Godot again. Besides I'd have to fins a new Winslow since it has also transmogrified. Hmmm. <sigh>
15 July	Spiral Dance CD Launch The Wheatie ($15)
21 July	Sophie Koh The Wheatie ($?)
24 July	The Tea Party: The Reformation Tour Thebarton Theatre ($85)
10 August	Kate Miller-Heidke The Gov ($48)
later 2012	Yunyu ????? ($?)
Have I missed anything? Apart from the Discordian Drone Group playing at the Squatter's Arms as I type this, who sole advertisement is a "HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!"

Comments

[molokov-au.livejournal.com]

Sat 21 July - Sophie Koh at the Wheatsheaf. But this is really a placeholder for me rather than you :)

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

Why is that name familiar?

[molokov-au.livejournal.com]

Maybe I've mentioned her before? Triple J unearthed winner for NT in 2002 or thereabouts, does the song "Charlie" on She Will Have Her Way, but otherwise not really that famous. http://www.sophiekoh.com

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

Damn. The Tea Party are playing Adelaide the day after I arrive in Darwin. There's timing...

(Also, that ticket price. Ouch - I must be getting used to what things cost when a band doesn't have to cross the world to play!)

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

SAT 14 JULY MELBOURNE
TUE 17 JULY BRISBANE
SAT 21 JULY SYDNEY
TUE 24 JULY ADELAIDE
THU 26 JULY PERTH

{Sorry for shouting, but it was a quick cut & paste job).

(And I echo the ouch.)

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

No problem. I'd already googled up the live dates in case it wasn't just an Australian tour, but appreciate your making sure I had 'em.

I understand the Tea Party never really took off in the US, so I shall have to hope that I get to see them some time when we're up in Canadialand. *smile*

(I suspect the ouch is totally worth it in this case, though! Enjoy!)

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

It may be too ouchy for me though, especially considering all the rest of the music stuff that's happening (and that I'm curmudgeonly falling back into "live music is lots less fun when no one else you know is going." I completely missed The Tea Party when it first came round, mainly because I had my head firmly down in my doctorate. _Allhambra_ is one of my favourite albums (especially with the songs Innana and The Grand Bazaar), and I've managed to catch most of Jeff Martin's solo gigs. So ... undecided.

Beware of the Meese when you go see them!

[derigueur.livejournal.com]

Unrelated, but if you don't know about this you should:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/117112-Auctioneer-Sells-Dungeons-Dragons-Creators-Treasure-Trove?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

Disappointing that the storage company is the one auctioning it off and the moneys are neither going to the Arneson Fund or to his family; This sort of stuff is the stuff that should be going into a university collecttion, such as the recently created RPG annex at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection at Texas A&M University.

[I'm much more of a fan of Dave Arneson and his Egg of Coot Society than I ever was of Gary Gygax and his Greyhawk. I'm glad WOTC actually paid him for his part of the D&D name/brand rather than using the accountancy tricks that TSR used to deny him his royalties (although that was probably more Blume than Gygax).]

[derigueur.livejournal.com]

I agree it's disappointing on many levels that the collection is being broken up, but the guy handling the auction seems, if he can be believed, to have both had Arneson's blessing to handle his stuff and tried his darndest to contact the family about it.

So with that in mind, I'm going to do my part to preserve some of that history. Whatever I get from the auction will be labelled, stored properly and made available to a museum/Uni collection down the track.