Well that happened..

- The Snowdroppers at The Gum Ball. Have you ticked them off your to do list yet?  http://www.snowdroppers.com/shows

So this weekend we went the The Gum Ball. A music festival near Maitland in NSW. What can I say really. It rained, it was wet and gross and my hair was frizzy but the food was hot the drinks were cold and the bands rocked my soul.

The day before The Gum Ball we procrastinated from driving and went and bought a sick camera so now we have some great photos to publish in the next edition of Renegades Empire Magazine. So keep an eye out for that. We got to see the Brothers Grim and The Blue Murders again and they made us fall in love again. Those boys are good at that. And we also got the experience The Snowdroppers once again. Johnny Wishbone playing that banjo what else is there really to say. I love a good banjo….

We got the chance to discover some new bands as well which you can read about soon in #4 of Renegades Empire Magazine.

Now that i’m home and dry and drained from the Renegades business meeting we just had i’m off to bed so I can get up tomorrow morning and finish off #4 and get to the printers on time so you can all enjoy a good read. Your going to love the next issue it’ll scare your socks off.

Get to a gig. Fall in love with a new band. Tell us about it.

Renegades Roadtrip

I’m tired and in need of a chiropractor after sleeping upright in a car outside the Ettamogah Pub in the wee hours of Monday morning but I feel the need to publicly thank Melbourne City and it’s people for showing us a great weekend.

We did lots of shopping and went to many gigs and it was fun meeting the punks of old Melbourne town.

Some highlights:

> Punk-A-Billy 10 at the Barleycorn Hotel. Massive night of punk mayham where the highlight was The Australian Kingswood Factory rocking up the stage.
> Tour around Fitzroy from those Brothers Grim
> The Espy – what a great venue
> GPS getting us lost only to discover more Melbourne delights
> Almost hitting many bike riders (SORRY), Almost getting hit by a tram and learning the honking of the horn wasn’t at our bad driving but just a friendly request to hurry up

We were lucky enough to stay longer on Sunday night to see Brothers Grim and The Blue Murders perform their last Juke Joint Show at the Standard Hotel. And might i say these boys know how to entertain. If you are yet to get a taste of these lads make sure you do and be sure to check them out in the current issue of Renegades Empire Magazine as well as many more to come.

Until next time Melbourne keep rocking it out like you always do.

Whats coming up this week for us? GOGOL BORDELLO with support from local boys THE RUMJACKS would love to see you all there!

Being in two places at once…

Here at Renegades Empire we don’t do things in halves. So when we decide that Saturday nights are for gigging we try to hit up as many as possible. It was extremely fortunate (or unfortunate depending on who you talk to) that last night there was two amazing gigs on in Sydney.

The first was Black Cherry Club at Factory Theatre. With a brand new venue for a brand new year, Black Cherry Club did not disappoint. It was weird for us to go to a gig where no one seemed embarrased that they had arrived on time and ready to have some fun. Although the line up to the bar was crazy and the cost of Red Bull made me contemplate an Absinth cocktail during happy hour we were excited about the line up of bands that Black Cherry Club had in store for us. One of our highlights was Jordan & The Original Six – we’d heard from Jordan himself about his skills and his amazing band earlier this year but to see them was quite a treat, he has a very soothing voice and a great sound so we are looking forward to seeing more of him in the future. Although we are slightly embarrassed to admit it we did sneak into the 2nd room at Black Cherry Club and treated ourselves to another dose of The Rumjacks. We feel like we are stalking them from gig to gig but hey you couldn’t really find a better bunch of scallywags to stalk. A whole lot more happened at Black Cherry Club but just to annoy you all a little this story is to be continued…(You’ll have to buy ISSUE THREE of Renegades Empire Magazine and read the review)

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