Day 2: Adelaide, SA
Nau mai
Yesterday we played a show in Adelaide, South Australia.
Australian tour day 2.
My breakfast - a mid morning outing to the Adelaide Central Market and a small Algerian restaurant called Le Souk, the name coming from a French/North African phrase which means “The Market”.
I had the Falafel Breakfast - four falafel, two sunnyside eggs with sumac, brown rice, hummus, red harissa, and salad.
12:30pm was lobby call. We packed everything back into our creamy white Kia Carnival and headed to North Adelaide to begin the work day.
This was our second time playing at Adelaide’s iconic venue “The Gov”. It was a beautiful sunny afternoon yet it was freezing inside the venue. The sunny beer garden beckoned to us as we donned our wooliest garments and set up the stage.
The floor patterns were complicated and clashy and we couldn’t wait for the space to be filled with patrons to hide this chaotic expanse.
Great lighting around the bar though! Look at these Art Deco pendant lights and wiry globe lights hunched over waiting to get served!
The green room is a tight space just off stage right. There is a couch, an armchair, and a very large framed certificate from the hospitality awards.
Here is one of Gabe’s classic “glare” shots, showing the great atmosphere of this venue once it is illuminated with powerful stage lighting and filled with people. It’s a miracle that he could take a photo at all with how bright those lights must have been.
It looks like Gabe captured us here in an extended banter segment. I remember talking about how much I enjoyed the city’s public sculpture works and Tristan talked about how much he loves the new cymbal he bought from Adelaide’s renowned cymbalsmith Craig Lauritsen. Jon and Liz raved about their their morning walk through the city’s green belt and managed to induce a magical moment where the audience cooperated to create a soundscape of their city and its wildlife. The rustling of tree branches and their leaves, the haunting avian moans of the Ibis, the frustrating grind of the traffic, and the guttural sounds of humans screeching in argument were conjured into a believable performance.
Gig photography at its finest: my very good friend John Gluyas, a world class trombonist and all round inspirational human musician.
Adelaide, capital city of the Festival State, UNESCO City of Music, city of churches, the 20 minute city, or the place known informally by its inhabitants as Radelaide, left us thoroughly charmed and itching to return for another visit.
Ending the night at our hotel with a game of “Is it real or fake produce?”