Watussi and Garlic

Last weekend db and I took the abc radio recording truck to the glorious annandale hotel, which is in my very own suburb - Annandale. Aaaah the dale…
Watussi are a sydney based band who play Afro Colombian rock type music and they are pretty awesome.
The previous day I was wearing my warmest winter jacket, then on this day the temp decides to get up to 30 degress.  So there we are in the dale, running cabbles in the hot sun about to die from heat exhaustion.

I took some pics. I just recently got into photography and have a canon 450d with 17-85 lense. I thought this would be a great opportunity to try my hand at being a band photgrapher. It's not that easy actually, because the shutter speeds in that light were often too slow and the band just wouldn't stand still!  The one above I took while I was doing the coyote ugly thing - I was standing up on the bar. But no dancing. I was scared of falling off actually. But don't tell anyone at work because that's not very OH&S.

Anyway the Euphonics desk in the truck which is just waaayy too difficult to use for its own good was playing up. Our levels were jumping up and down all over over the place. And the Tascam 48 track hard disc recorders were being silly too. Actually I managed to break one the day before. Better the day before than on the the day…right? But they ended up recording OK after a couple of heart attacks when we thought both machines hadn't recorded anything. But they had!

Now there is nothing that makes me more happy in life than a free feed. And did we get one!! They had a South American BBQ in the arvo. And we ate spicy sausages, black puding (I said no thanks) giant mushrrooms, etc, but boy the garlic sauce that went with it. Lucky everyone was eating it so we all stink. I've never had anything more potent. 

Anyway satisfaction all round… We didn't finish work till 3 in the morning. After starting at midday I guess I was a little bit tired the next day. Actually I felt like I'd been hit by a truck.