Australia Day

So after the Gold Coast we headed south to Sydney. Def one of the coolest cities in the world. Ive a lot of great friends here and there is always a good time to be had. First up was a show for Lily Allen who i have been doing lights for during Big Day Out as a favour to a friend of mine who is her tour manager. The show was at Luna Park which is a theme park that sits just under Sydneys famous harbour bridge on the North side of the bay.

It was a good show and it seemed to go down very well with the crowd, if you havent already heard any of her stuff, you should def check it out.

Next day it was back to the Big Day Out for probably the biggest show, here is a picture that i stole from Lily Allens MySpace page of me working.

An hour later and it was back to the main stage to do The Killers again.

My valiant attempts at doing lights in broad daylight dont look that bad at all i think.
Soon as the guys finished it was straight across the road to The Acer Arena to see Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame play a 3 hour show...

.....including a performance of Dark side of the moon from start to finish complete with flying Pigs!!
A couple of days off followed and spent it hanging out with friends and with a trip to the Aquarium to see some sharks from the safety of a couple of inches thick glass.

After that it was a show at Hordern Pavillion on Australia Day, which is Australias national holiday so a good day was had all round.
Next day it was off to Melbourne for another big day out and then a another few days off which i filled in with another Lily Allen show and hanging out with more great friends from home who are living out here now. A day spent driving around and stopping off at various beaches.

Was nice to get out of the city even if only for a couple of hours.

Another highlight was a return visit to the Globe Skate Clothing Warehouse. Those of you familiar with this blog will know that last time i was in Melbourne we were invited to Globe for a look around and grab some free stuff, of course this became a grab all you carry affair....and guess what? After a few phone calls, it happened again so im laden down with an extra full of clothes and skate shoes and a couple of new skate boards. But it was all free so i dont mind too much :-)
Next day it was back to it with a show at Melbournes Festival Hall and a world live debut for arguably the best song on SAMS TOWN.....This River Is Wild was played for the first time ever in front of an audience.
A couple of drinks after the show and it was back to the hotel for a couple of hours sleep before getting up at 6am this morning to fly here to Adelaide for todays Big Day Out show. I was greeted with the bizarre sight of a load of hot air ballons flying over the city outside my window at 6.30am, unfortunately by the time i dug my camera out of my all too sensibly packed luggage, there was only 2 left. Oh well!!!

I did manage to get a shot as i waited on the elevator down to the lobby though!!