Goodnight & Good luck
We played our last headline for a long time (perhaps ever) last Saturday the 16th of December at the East Brunswick Club. It was fitting that it was in our hometown of Melbourne, in our stomping ground of East Brunswick, with a crowd consisting of friends, family and loyal fans. The people who have supported us since our first ever headline as The Endless Sea, only blocks away at the Rob Roy, back in September 2004. Yikes! It's been over two years of fairly constant touring, room sharing, car sharing, girlfriend break ups, newly found husbands, roadhouse iced coffee's, egg and lettuce sandwiches, lumpy beds, country life soap, falafel rolls, nursed hangovers and absolute pant wetting laughter.
After we came off stage it hit me how chemistry just happens. We are the most unlikely people to have ever found each other. We all have very different music taste. We wouldn't have chosen to hang out with each other at school. We never look good in photos together. Yet here we were two and a bit years on, still together, playing better than ever as a band and really enjoying each others company.
The show itself was special partly because we knew we could be making a little history as The Endless Sea and partly because headlines for us are a rarity. As Droid our violinist said before we went on, "We play headlines so rarely that I always get a surprise when I look out at the audience and realise they are there to see US!"
Recently I was misquoted in street press as saying The Endless Sea were going through line up changes and that this would be our last ever headline show. What I said was who knows? It could be...People move on, move overseas, have babies, join other bands that tour to Sweden, become monks. Life is so random, so impermanent, that change is all I can count on for a fact. For that reason I wanted to hold onto the other night and cherish it as though it were the last time I might ever share the stage with these incredible musicians.
I am going to attempt to write another album in 2007. Take a break from touring and spend some time with my family. We have a mini tour with Laura Veirs in late January (trio mode) and after that I am hanging up my touring boots for a time.
I want to thank all of you that have come to our shows, left messages, sung along, taken photos, danced, played our songs on the radio and spread the word. Nothing is more powerful than word of mouth. Thank you.
I want to thank all of the musicians who have taken us out on the road with them and shared their stages, hearts and hotel rooms.
I want to thank all of the musicians who have supported us. How lucky we have been!
And most of all I want to thank my beloved Endless Sea who have kept me in good humour, played with all their might and made the last couple of years ones I will always hold close to my heart.
After we came off stage it hit me how chemistry just happens. We are the most unlikely people to have ever found each other. We all have very different music taste. We wouldn't have chosen to hang out with each other at school. We never look good in photos together. Yet here we were two and a bit years on, still together, playing better than ever as a band and really enjoying each others company.
The show itself was special partly because we knew we could be making a little history as The Endless Sea and partly because headlines for us are a rarity. As Droid our violinist said before we went on, "We play headlines so rarely that I always get a surprise when I look out at the audience and realise they are there to see US!"
Recently I was misquoted in street press as saying The Endless Sea were going through line up changes and that this would be our last ever headline show. What I said was who knows? It could be...People move on, move overseas, have babies, join other bands that tour to Sweden, become monks. Life is so random, so impermanent, that change is all I can count on for a fact. For that reason I wanted to hold onto the other night and cherish it as though it were the last time I might ever share the stage with these incredible musicians.
I am going to attempt to write another album in 2007. Take a break from touring and spend some time with my family. We have a mini tour with Laura Veirs in late January (trio mode) and after that I am hanging up my touring boots for a time.
I want to thank all of you that have come to our shows, left messages, sung along, taken photos, danced, played our songs on the radio and spread the word. Nothing is more powerful than word of mouth. Thank you.
I want to thank all of the musicians who have taken us out on the road with them and shared their stages, hearts and hotel rooms.
I want to thank all of the musicians who have supported us. How lucky we have been!
And most of all I want to thank my beloved Endless Sea who have kept me in good humour, played with all their might and made the last couple of years ones I will always hold close to my heart.
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