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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2009 22:48:51 GMT -5
Grrrrrrrrrrr i told my friends to wait around after the show to try to get in backstage but nooooo :-P do you have a copy of that second interview (the FBi one)? the recorder in the studio was broken and the DJ wants a copy... it was his first interview. i'm glad your time with them went well... No Age's FBi interview sucked, and they bitched about it. FBi's kinda known as the home of 'sniffling indie kids' in the worst way. if you're in sydney tomorrow from 10 - 12 tune into catch my show do you know if the Triple J thing is going to end up on CD? they do compilations of the 'Like A Version' thing pretty frequently what's the name of the Bondi Mexican resturant? there are a few mexican places - Guzman Y Gomez has outlets in Kings Cross and Newtown and there's some great trashy mexican at various malls premixed drinks are great, tho they're taxed extra. try the premixed G&Ts sometime
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Post by twang on Feb 6, 2009 0:46:31 GMT -5
Best Mexican in Sydney is Cafe Pacifico. Hands down.
Great review of The Metro show too, dustdude. I can't remember the last 100 minutes of my life that were that much fun.
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Post by barx01 on Feb 6, 2009 3:57:35 GMT -5
But, sadly, Sydney remains our answer to Los Angeles: no brain, no soul and no fuckin' heart!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2009 4:33:51 GMT -5
But, sadly, Sydney remains our answer to Los Angeles: no brain, no soul and no fuckin' heart! there's still time to make it to the Excelsior in Surry Hills to see Johnny Casino right now or Oxford Art Factory to see Hell City Glamours or see Perry Keyes whenever he plays or Disbelievers/Atrocities at Oxford Art next week or captain reckless tomorrow night or anything at www.mumeson.org - Jay Katz kinda saved my life okay, usually i'd agree with you on sydney. most of the time i hate it. but the gig on wedensday reminded me how much fun this city is. if we come together around the good bands and the good people we can make it work and make this place better
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Post by jamesjesusangleton on Feb 6, 2009 10:22:05 GMT -5
Okay, enough of these persistent digs at English food, Dustin. You'll find plenty of good food if you actually bother to walk further than the other side of the street. Alternatively, you can sit in the lobby of your hotel in London, ask an English person where you can find good food round near the hotel, get given a list of alternatives encompassing a variety of different types of food, then say: "Nah. I guess we'll just go there." [Dustin points to chain cafe, 25 feet away from lobby]. Durrr.
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Post by dustdudes on Feb 6, 2009 10:29:35 GMT -5
Hahahahha. I've been waiting for someone to get testy about that. I don't know what to say except that I've TRIED and had a very hard time finding English food that suits my palette. Not enough (or affordable enough) fresh fruits and vegetables. Too many potatoes. Very little spiciness that isn't some kind of "ethnic" dish. I love being in England. Just not for the food. I've had some really really great meals in England. It's just that they were either Thai or Indian or Japanese.
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Post by heidivandernice, nice on Feb 6, 2009 10:45:07 GMT -5
i've only been to england once, but i resigned myself to fish and chips the entire time. wasn't so bad. wash it down with plenty of (warm, wtf, seriously) beer and it's bearable.
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Post by jamesjesusangleton on Feb 6, 2009 10:47:51 GMT -5
I can also recall seeing (or more accurately smelling) you, in your own country (presumably the haven of great food), preparing a ham and cheese sandwich that permeated the entire space with odour of the effluent of Beelzebub himself. Nothing you say about food can be trusted, Dustin.
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Post by gushingblood on Feb 6, 2009 12:32:43 GMT -5
Nothing beats English fish 'n' chips
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Post by nosferatu on Feb 6, 2009 16:00:08 GMT -5
Sunday Roast?!
England's national dish is probably curry now anyway... there's more tradition in "going for a curry" here than there is for anything else.
Seriously dustin, I am really enjoying your diary. I like your writing style!
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Post by wealdstone on Feb 6, 2009 16:19:30 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2009 18:03:08 GMT -5
if Australian food is so good why can't they make a proper burger, with a thick patty and no beetroot? and why does america make better kangaroo?
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Post by clarence5ybr on Feb 7, 2009 13:11:14 GMT -5
Nothing beats English fish 'n' chips Especially since you can get mushy peas with fish and chips in England, whereas in the US, nobody's ever heard of them.
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Post by dustdudes on Feb 8, 2009 2:01:30 GMT -5
I can also recall seeing (or more accurately smelling) you, in your own country (presumably the haven of great food), preparing a ham and cheese sandwich that permeated the entire space with odour of the effluent of Beelzebub himself. Nothing you say about food can be trusted, Dustin. 40 acres and a deli tray, sometimes you have to make do. I just had some incredible Thai food in Sydney. If you don't trust anything I have to say about food then you're not invited over for my free-range mini burgers poached in clarified butter with my heirloom tomatoes and chili relish. Sorry, but them's the rules. Really, all I do when I'm not on tour is cook for my roommates.
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Post by hard corey on Feb 8, 2009 11:05:10 GMT -5
I can also recall seeing (or more accurately smelling) you, in your own country (presumably the haven of great food), preparing a ham and cheese sandwich that permeated the entire space with odour of the effluent of Beelzebub himself. Nothing you say about food can be trusted, Dustin. 40 acres and a deli tray, sometimes you have to make do. I just had some incredible Thai food in Sydney. If you don't trust anything I have to say about food then you're not invited over for my free-range mini burgers poached in clarified butter with my heirloom tomatoes and chili relish. Sorry, but them's the rules. Really, all I do when I'm not on tour is cook for my roommates. i trust you. now when's dinner?
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Post by essbee on Feb 8, 2009 12:48:21 GMT -5
Notes about the show: We're halfway around the world and the crowd knows the words to every song including stuff off the first two records. I didn't know anyone outside of Minneapolis knew those two. In fact, many of us do.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2009 17:13:11 GMT -5
i do!
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Post by theblondette on Feb 8, 2009 18:39:10 GMT -5
Hahahahha. I've been waiting for someone to get testy about that. I don't know what to say except that I've TRIED and had a very hard time finding English food that suits my palette. Not enough (or affordable enough) fresh fruits and vegetables. Too many potatoes. Very little spiciness that isn't some kind of "ethnic" dish. I love being in England. Just not for the food. I've had some really really great meals in England. It's just that they were either Thai or Indian or Japanese. That's because there isn't really an English cuisine. Our history is one of invasion and colonisation and empire! Next time you're over, we can pool our English resources and tell you where to find great food *stares at Heidi's slurs over warm beer* Ale is meant to be room temperature, people! You Americans all drink stuff that's like cold piss. *kisskiss* Dustin, thanks for this diary. It's great fun to read.
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Post by toastie on Feb 9, 2009 4:26:20 GMT -5
Hahahahha. I've been waiting for someone to get testy about that. I don't know what to say except that I've TRIED and had a very hard time finding English food that suits my palette. Not enough (or affordable enough) fresh fruits and vegetables. Too many potatoes. Very little spiciness that isn't some kind of "ethnic" dish. I love being in England. Just not for the food. I've had some really really great meals in England. It's just that they were either Thai or Indian or Japanese. That's because there isn't really an English cuisine. Our history is one of invasion and colonisation and empire! Next time you're over, we can pool our English resources and tell you where to find great food Where as in Scotland we do have a national dish: Deep Fried Mars Bar, never tried it myself.
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Post by lilhan on Feb 9, 2009 6:51:37 GMT -5
Notes about the show: We're halfway around the world and the crowd knows the words to every song including stuff off the first two records. I didn't know anyone outside of Minneapolis knew those two. In fact, many of us do. this is true.
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Post by mattjs on Feb 9, 2009 8:41:57 GMT -5
Am loving the updates still...helped me through a hard week at work!
On the food in the UK front, I've been lucky enough to go to a few "posh" restaurants through work..Gordan Ramsey, Jamie Oliver, the Ivy etc and you can get amazing food if your willing to pay! A good idea though is to have the set lunch menu at these places and don't have any wine probably cost you between £15-£30 for 3 courses and is always worth it!
What the UK – from my experience in Birmingham anyway – lacks is cheaper alternatives to these places outside of Indian, Chinese, Thai places etc.
Most pub meals are woefully bad...although the steak sarnies in the Adalphi in Leeds were great.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2009 17:18:39 GMT -5
we went to Rockpool in Sydney through dad... that was incredible. there's some decent Thai and fish and chips near me.....
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Post by toastie on Feb 10, 2009 3:31:11 GMT -5
When I was at college, there was a kebab house down the street from me, which made amazing Pizzas, there was an amazing chippy that gives 2 big bits of fish and a pile of chips.
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Post by hr24 on Feb 10, 2009 6:57:45 GMT -5
Are you going to finish the rest of the tour dustin??
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Post by dustdudes on Feb 10, 2009 7:20:34 GMT -5
Day 9:
Fly to Perth. I don't think there's anything else I can say about airports. Our driver is an old surfing instructor who looks sort of like Dog the Bounty Hunter. This is the last day that we have off before we do three festival shows in a row then fly home. We're in Perth and we make it special: We visit Bon Scott's grave. The cemetery is half an hour outside of Perth. We stop at the liquor store before we leave and I pay imported beer price for a six pack of Budweiser. I've been out of the states for a week and a half and it eases the homesickness somewhat. The cemetery is on the side of a busy highway, there's a small gate that says "Bon Scott Memorial" and the grave is just ten feet inside. Bon was cremated, the grave is tiny and looks just like the thousand other markers around it. A few people have left little tokens on the marker. Tad leaves a guitar pick, we all take photos, everyone is quiet for a few minutes and then we leave.
There's supposedly a statue of Bon somewhere in Perth but we have no idea where it is. Our driver, Doug, decides to take us to a supposedly famous fish & chips place right on the ocean near the cemetery. The statue is in the parking lot. We take more pictures, eat fish & chips, and fight with the seagulls for our food (we win, they lose, I heckle them). On the drive back we stop at one of a thousand beautiful beaches and all dip our feet into the Indian Ocean. I take a minute of video of waves crashing over my feet while the sun sets over the horizon. It is absolutely my favorite sixty seconds of the trip so far. I have the best job in the entire world.
Back at the hotel we take another quick dip in the pool. I don't think there's anything else I can say about swimming except that I'm going to really really miss doing it everyday when I get back home. Leesa makes fun of me for spending so much time every day out in the sun and not actually getting a tan. "You keep getting darker shades of pink," she says. I shave my beard in my room with a disposable razor. It takes forever. It is the first time I've shaved since the Drive By Truckers tour in November. I realize once I'm clean shaven that I've lost a lot of weight. I have cheekbones for the first time in years. McQ comes into the room and tells me that Leesa is in the room next door giving haircuts. She was a stylist for fifteen years before becoming a tour manager. McQ's looks great, he looks even more like John Edwards than usual, and Galen is getting his mop cleaned up when I get over there. I have a TON of hair cut off. Now I look even younger. I know I'm going to be freezing when I get back to New York in a few days but having short hair and being clean cut in the Australian sun makes me feel like this is my first day over here instead of my ninth.
Our publicist for the tour, Magda, knows about a show in Perth that is happening tonight. She's also working with No Age for the festival and they're supposed to be playing at a house a few miles from the hotel. Jay Reatard was also supposed to play but bailed out the day before. We take a cab out to the house and there are fifty punks drinking in the yard. A local band just finished playing. Everyone is 18 years old. Or younger. Now I feel old. There's a giant Húsker Dú Land Speed Record poster in the living room. No Age isn't there yet. I meet the kid who set up the show. During our conversation he looks at his phone and discovers that the band has been trying to call him for the last hour. I go outside while he calls them back. A few minutes later we're on the porch when Magda gets a text from No Age. They're not coming because they haven't been able to get ahold anyone at the house all day and now it is midnight. All the way around the world house shows are exactly the same, I guess. There would be refunds but no one actually paid at the door in the first place. A cab back to the hotel, a short walk to a tiki bar by the hotel and we all drink gin & tonics with Danny, the promoter of the whole Laneways Festival, until the bar closes. The DJ in the bar played Cramps records all night.
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