We were booked to play this union-subsidised Wednesday night extravanganza by an old Youth Group friend called Sarah. It was a one-off in a few overwhelming ways. With the crowd numbering 900 white-teethed young people, it was our biggest headline yet. And falling as it did between Forever Young being number one and our record being released, and tickets costing the princely sum of $5, there was one song above all that a lot of people wanted to hear. But it was fun show and close to home.
A young (nameless?) band from the audience gave Cameron a CD they’d home-made; a version of every song on Skeleton Jar, done in sequence, made using scarily precise drum-machine programming. This drum programming was exact to the point of comedy – if only you could hear it.
There were pre-show dramas too when Michael Carpenter, the drummer for Jason Walker & The Last Drinks, collapsed back-stage with stomach flu and had to get an ambulance to RPAH.