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Thursday, April 26. 2012Jersey Kerb does Thirroul
It's been a long while between drinks, but if you'd like one or two and will be in the vicinity of the Gong tomorrow night, come down to Ryans at Thirroul to see my band Jersey Kerb work through our mix of well-known classics and far less obvious pub rock numbers.
Friday, October 22. 2010Jersey Kerb rocks Oatley
Tomorrow night after five years my rock covers band Jersey Kerb plays our first gig near "home" in the St. George area, at none other than the Oatley Pub.
Details on Facebook here, or feel free to just read: 23 October · 20:30 - 23:30 Oatley Hotel, 8 Oatley Avenue More info OatleyHotel.com.au If Oatley is too far north for you, consider the following week at Ryan's Hotel, 138 Phillip Street, Thirroul from 7:30pm. We have one more CBD gig lined up this year too, so there's something for everyone. Thursday, July 1. 2010Tonite: Jersey Kerb!
It's all on again tonight at Tailors, Mary Street Surry Hills from 6:30pm. The pub rock covers band I'm in Jersey Kerb are back after a long break with a stack of new tunes and of course some old favourites you'll be belting out after a few schooners.
See you there later tonight. After a year off, job relocations, house relocations... we have finally found some time to get back together and start practicing. Thursday, November 13. 2008End of the Road
Due to our organisation moving buildings early next year, my band Jersey Kerb faces an uncertain future.
We use the present location for rehearsals and storing equipment, but there will be very little chance of this happening at the new location. This means that tomorrow night's gig is likely the last for quite some time, until we work out how we might possibly pull together something in the new year with the organisation centred around North Sydney instead of Surry Hills. So tomorrow night, come along and see what the last four years have culminated in: 6pm, Tailors on Central, Mary Street Surry Hills. Free Entry. Thursday, October 25. 2007Things
Well, you can probably guess from the slackness in blogging I'm showing here that life has been busy. The most obvious reason is of course the baby who is showing all signs of being healthy, and arriving early December. The midwife thinks possibly earlier, but we'd rather it not because she is away until the end of November.
There's modern cloth nappies galore here now, and buckets for dirty ones, plus of course clothes, wraps, furniture, car seat, pram, you name it. I've heard it described as the biggest consumer spend a couple goes through (after housing), and it's truly scary what some companies tell you that you 'need' to have. We've been to birthing and parenting classes and spent countless hours reading stuff online so apparently we now know all, true experts in the field. Except it will of course have no bearing on the reality of actually having a child to look after 24 hours a day. It was interesting to compare out situation to others in the class though - we're much better off and more prepared than several others, so that gives us a bit of hope. Trying to organise a couple of short holidays before the due date too. Some other quick point-form news:
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Sunday, September 16. 2007JK with Brass!
For the non-Facebook-enabled, here's a quick invite to Jersey Kerb this Friday 6pm, at Tailors on Central, 84-86 Mary St Surry Hills.
We've brought the brass section back by popular demand, and I've spend days scoring parts for them, so I hope there's plenty of people to listen to it all! All welcome, no cover charge. Thursday, July 26. 2007Catchup Blogging
Firstly, Jersey Kerb are playing tonight! Same place - Tailors on Central. Kicking off 6pm.
Had a gig last weekend with The Honeymakers too at Marrickville, which was going pretty well considering I was sight-reading the bass parts, until we lost power half way through the last set! And, as is usual for this type of gig, they seem to underestimate the band and don't do any advertising, so there's not many people around, but at the end they all come up and say "wow, we should put some signs up and tell people next time!" Watch out, there mightn't be a next time if you don't get organised. At home, we're squished into the back half of the house as I've ripped up all the carpet, and we've had people in sanding and oiling the floor boards. The mix-matching dirty carpet is now all gone, and in its place some great looking natural timbers, topped with natural oils. Sleeping in the dining room is a small price to pay, and we can move back in probably tomorrow. The ugly room (at the front) is also getting floor boards put down, probably next week. The flooring guy is just making sure that we're getting plantation, not old growth, timber. It's been good being able to work from home while this is happening, saving loss of another week's pay. Got some baby furniture off eBay which I am going out to pick up tomorrow. We got a matching set of cot (which changes to junior bed and then a couch), wardrobe and chest-of-drawers with a change table on top. It's been a good way to get things - not new, saving on packaging and materials. Plus it's all also sustainable timber. The baby itself keeps on growing, kicking now and then. Liz had some pains at work the other day but was able to go straight up and get the all clear - a nice perk of her workplace. It still hasn't really sunk in, not sure when it ever will. Just about the 2nd of December, I'm guessing.
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Sunday, July 1. 2007Happy Birthday To ME!
It's been a great day so far, life is very very good!
I'm posting this from Storey Grange B&B, which is a gorgeous little place. Look, here's a photo to prove it! We're having a few days up here in the mountains to get out of Sydney one a little pre-baby escape. Not to put down any of the presents that people were kind enough to give me, but none of them could compare with the ultrasound on Friday. The news is 100% positive, and the experience was so amazing that we have to share a bit of it with you - see just how lazy the baby is here. That's crazy, hidden inside my wife. Wow. The gig after that went off pretty well too, once we had warmed up a bit. By far the biggest challenge we face there is that we aren't allowed a sound check (it scares the regulars away apparently), and hence have to mix through the beginning of our set. And I mix. Between playing bass, sax, flute, and guitar. But hey, the buzz of the ultrasound was still better. And yes, we did find out what gender the baby is, but that will remain our little secret for a while :)
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Tuesday, June 26. 2007Jersey Kerb: Newer Stuff!
As noted on the currently spartan Jersey Kerb page, we've got another gig this Friday, at Tailors on Central 6pm.
You might find a bit more info at our MySpace page. Would be great to see y'all! We've got a whole pile of new songs since we last saw most of you there, so if you think you've heard it all before, you're wrong... Saturday, May 5. 2007Cole Clark Acoustic
Despite learning on Dad's, I've never really had my own acoustic guitar, and I've always wanted something for the campfire and other no-power-available moments when music is still required.
For whatever strange reason, a guitar shop has recently opened up in Penshurst - the second shop of Village Guitar. I had been meaning for a long time to drop in there, as I walk past most days (when not cycling) but never when they are actually open. When I finally did, I was attracted to the Cole Clark guitars. These are made in Melbourne from sustainable timbers, and get pretty amazing reviews all over the place. Lots of famous artists play them, and after picking up one and having a bash I could see why. So, when I noticed they were having a 25% off sale the following week, I ran out of excuses not to buy one. The particular model I selected, a Fat Lady 2 AC that was on display, turned out to have a small but annoying manufacturing defect in the form of a buzz, but the guys in the shop and Cole Clark were very helpful in getting this fixed, and last night with Jersey Kerb, the guitar made a stunning debut. The thing that has always annoyed me about electric-acoustic guitars is that the electric sound is crap. Really crap. I told this to the guys in the guitar shop, and they instantly told me to try the Cole Clark guitars. They all have at least two pickups in the body of the guitar, and you can option them up to three. Balancing the sound between them, you can get some genuinely great acoustic sounds which have left everyone who has heard it very impressed. Thursday, April 26. 2007Jersey Kerb: New Stuff!
It's been a while since I've advertised band gigs here, but if you're after a fun night out with some good sing-along tunes, come check us out next Friday 4th May, 6:30pm at Tailors on Central.
We've got heaps of new material this time around, so even if you think you've heard it all before, you're wrong! Hope to see a few familiar faces there. Saturday, March 3. 2007Catchup Blogging
OK, News time. It's been a while.
I've uploaded some photos to my Flickr account which have titles showing a pictorial version of what we've been doing recently. There's some from Adelaide (1 2 3 4), some from our recent weekend back up to the Hunter Valley to celebrate our wedding anniversary (yep, it's been over a year now...) (1 2), and even an ugly product of our veggie patch. Margaret's house has been on the market for a while and is now sold, she's looking for a place to buy and has a few in mind. She may be moving in with us during the change-over period. So we've re-organised the house a bit. We've now got a separate (small) room devoted to music. It's good to have everything out and in the one place, and I've been inspired to do some recording, helped out with a computer audio interface I found cheap on eBay. Still trying to decide what software I want to use with it though. The junk that used to be in that room has now sort-of migrated to the spare room, but it could be consolidated to make room for Margaret should the need arise. Around the house, I've been cleaning out gutters and getting things organised in preparation for the arrival of our water tanks. The fact that it's been raining a lot recently has been annoying us, thinking of the wastage. It looks like we'd have to vote capital-L Liberal to get the government to do something about water recycling, so becoming as detached as possible from it all is appealing. Put some of the wine from our Hunter trip (came back with three cases!) under the house in a sort-of cellar arrangement. The conditions are good but it's hard to get to. Should be good for medium-long-term storage though. We headed off to the Whiskey Experience again a few days ago - a great fun evening which we figure is just to raise brand awareness. Not that many people around us were aware of things around themselves by the end of proceedings! One of Liz's birthday celebrations this year was a trip to the Löwenbräu Keller, something I haven't done for years and an evening we thoroughly enjoyed. The band there seems to do the same show every night, but it's very entertaining. Plus we get to drink great beer and practice our German. ... Which is good, because Sebastian Schnelle (whom we stayed with at least three times in Europe 2002-3 and caught up with again early last year) is back in the country to do his PhD in Brisbane. He and his girlfriend Jana flew into Sydney last week and we caught up a few times. She's still in learn-English mode, so we had a few conversations with me speaking German and her English, and my lack of skill there seemed to give her more confidence. Oh, and I buggered my knee badly about a month ago, which is the worst it's ever been. I've had plenty of days working from home and far less cycling. I have a specialist appointment next week, so hopefully I can get something done about it. Another Jersey Kerb gig happened last Friday - the first with Jono playing keyboards and me back on bass after Ed left for England. We played pretty well I thought, but the crowd was both thin and lacking energy. I think we have a job for our manager to get us sorted in a new venue or with some more aggressive advertising. Still great fun though. Surely that's enough topic-hopping for now. Congratulations if you made it this far!
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Thursday, November 23. 2006Kersey Jerb are in the Finals!
The Finals of 2006 and Ed being a band member, that is.
Tomorrow night is gonna be huge, lots of new songs, lots of crowd expected, and of course goodbyes to both Ed and Jenny who are both leaving work for good. We've even organised brass and strings for the occasion - something never before seen with the band. So come one, come all - details as always on the site. Tuesday, October 31. 2006A different type of gig!
Regular readers may have noticed that you didn't get this month's Jersey Kerb spam encouraging you to come to our gig. We've had a month off due to various issues, but next month promises to be a big one as it's Ed's last gig.
But fear not! To fill the gap I have a gig with my other band The Honeymakers. This is a big band / swing band / stage band (never quite settled on one of those terms that I'm happy with) playing all sorts of stuff. I joined when we returned from our first Europe trip and in the mean time have somehow found myself becoming the musical director - sort of like a conductor. Those who know her (from our wedding perhaps, where this band played) might also enjoy the fact that Jane is singing lots of songs with the band too. I'll let the promo blurb give you the details:
Tuesday, September 26. 2006Come see a busted Ed
Jersey Kerb Live!
Jersey Kerb rock covers band are playing this Friday night at Tailor's on Central, Mary Street, Surry Hills and need your support! We play a range of pop/rock covers from 60s through to current and it's always a good fun dancin' singin' time. Line-up is changed slightly for this gig with Ed having broken his wrist and hence his bass-playing skills are a little diminished. Fear not! We have that covered. So grab a few friends and organise a night-out in town. Kick-off around 6:30 so you hardcore clubbers can even head somewhere else afterwards. Hope to see you there!
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