Why Does It Always Rain On Me?

Homebake, Sydney

Another weekend rapidly fell upon me, and with it the associated celebratory Friday night drinks that drifted from the relatively upper class ECQ bar (not far from the Opera House) to the other end of the slider - at the Coogee Beach Hotel, a haunt as old as my time in Sydney. I did however register a personal first, in managing to get thrown out of the said establishment for being too drunk. I still to this minute have no idea how the door monkeys worked this out (I'd not even had that much to drink), since I'd been sitting down chatting for the majority of the evening, and had strolled up to the mensroom, before emerging back out into the bar to be greeted with my marching orders.

So Saturday was all set to be a better day than Friday. I managed to get a last minute ticket to Homebake, a 1 day music festival that dedicates its time slots to, as you can kinda guess from the name, home made acts (Australian & Kiwi). Myself and Aaron rolled up and met up with some friends before settling into a rambunctuous afternoon/evening routine. Though the heavens opened and gave the crowd the best of an English festival, we still partied on through to some great acts.

It was quite a different festival for me in that I'd never seen a single act before and was generally able to judge each act on their own merits rather than pre-told media plauditry. A hip-hop kiwi outfit called Scribe sounded great, Butterfly Effect gave me a good taste of Queensland rock before we made it to see a band I was more than familiar with. Loving a couple of their albums though, I thought the Vines sounded a little off, and the set-list didn't seem to do too much to get the crowd pumped. That said, the big-top tent they played in did offer us shelter as heavy rains bore down again on The Domain.

With the outlook a little clearer, we plodded on to see the climax of the evening; Eskimo Joe and Silverchair. Both of which delivering high quality live performances before the night was capped off with some low quality culinary McDelights.

With the weather really not doing it for us this weekend, all was left to do was have a good old fashioned English Sunday... Xbox 360, some great pizzas in Randwick followed by Borat at the movies.