Meeting The Paper Kites.

*clears throat* Well then, hello there. Let's leave the apologies for the absence to later. Much bigger fish to fry! Speaking of, fish & chips is what we started last night with :) After a little "what do I wear?" "You don't have to iron my shirt" "Of course I'm happy to, I just wish you'd gotten it organised before tonight" "Do you have your id?" "Course I have my id, let's go :)" "We're here" "Oh crap, I can't find my id SORRY BUBS :(" "It's ok, we can drive back and get it..." "Bubs, I found it" "Here we are again! :)" "We don't really have time for yummy burgers now do we?" situation.

Then off to The Astor Theatre! We were lucky enough to run into Hannah and her man Ben twice before we entered so we saw it as fate and made our way to the front of the stage. I had bought a brand new compact camera for the night (and for the ones that will no doubt follow) and was glad I had done so. The website for the gig so no professional cameras and some people less than 3 metres away were given stern words about using they're cameras shortly after we arrived. They had a Canon 5D (or something around that) for pete's sake! :D


First up was the act Craig and I went for. The Paper Kites. (A little Melbournite band that I discovered while making Craig's first mix tape.) And they did not disappoint! I am just so so happy they played 'Bloom' (if you haven't heard it yet, check it here.) as that was the track that is the "soundtrack of (our) love" (Christina's words, not mine!) Who be that you ask? Oh none other than the girl member of aforementioned band!!! EEP!!!
I was so excited to meet them :) And they were so excited that I had a copy of their first EP for them to sign. Yeah that's right, Peyton Sawyer eat your heart out. That sweetness isn't available for sale anymore. So here's me. Damn excited to have this good-looking crew in a photo with me. *sigh* I love mine and Craig's adventures. And we get to see them again in November when they come back to support Boy &Bear!

Emma Louise was up next and she wasn't what I expected at all. I mean sure, she's crazy talented. But she was wearing THE shortest dress seductively swaying with her guitar. I just, expected something more sensitive. I dunno, maybe I'm just being a bitch. Not all folky Australians need to dress like Julia Stone. I just didn't rate her after seeing her. Although Jungle is an amazing song.


Then Josh! Oh Josh Pyke! It was amazing. He was amazing. His lead guitarist was amazingly into it. Singing to Memories and Dust with Hannah. Filming Middle of The Hill for Lawrence. Seeing Katy Steele and Josh on stage performing Punch In The Heart together... Wow. If I hadn't stood up for 16 hours that day I would have said it was one of the greatest nights of my life. But man was I drained afterwards, straight to bed with a smile on my face.


So, life is pretty sweet at the moment. I still have moments when I get completely fed up and lose interest in everything. But it's mostly good times. And that has a lot to do with this guy. He's pretty great.

My love of Angus & Julia Stone

It's hard to put into words just how much these guys inspire me. Seriously, if you have been living under a rock and haven't heard of this talented Sydney sibling act - you need to, now. Most of their folky guitar & piano tunes give me tingles in the opening seconds... I just wish I could wake up and spend all morning listening to them, in a sunroom with a cup of tea. *sigh* One day :)

Most of their songs it's either Angus OR Julia singing... I read in their YEN interview that they actually write their songs separately and only get together in the last stages of creating to add harmonies etc. so that they don't get in each other's creative space. I think this is the coolest thing ever.

Until I was rounding up photos for this post I had never seen too many still shots of Mr Angus. He is smoking isn't he? Or should that be was? He's sort of hairy and indie like now. I like my boys pretty. Which he certainly was in his early days. Mmmm :D

Their latest album 'Down The Way' is pure magic. Every single song is a hit in it's own way. I honestly can't give you a single favourite, so you're gonna have to buy the whole thing :D I rarely buy cds but this one compelled me to buy their entire discography... My fave from the rest  of their cds is definitely 'Paper Aeroplane' which sounded so familiar even at first listen, so I thought I'd link you up. It's their first vid too!


Tell me, what do you think? :) Any other fans out there? And if you listened to the vid and thought "hey that's kinda like ..." tell me! I love discovering new music!