Chilling Out at the Chillcity

So today!!! zomg BEN KWELLER live in concert.

Matt andI went to the Chill City gig which was in the park opposite Fed Square.

The line up was stellar with Ben Kweller being my favourite.... OMG... awesome... and Paul Kelly (the fucking poet laureate of Australian songwriting) who was also fantastic.

It's always good going to festivals to hear new music as well and we saw Dan Sultan who I thought did rock and roll but he played this awesome mix of old school rock with some heavy ska influences on some songs.

There was a reggae band called the Easy Star Allstars who are famous for doing reggae covers of uncoverable music which they showed admirable skill as they did Money by Pink Floyd, Karma Police by Radiohead and two Beatles songs Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Seargeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. They were unusual and a bit trippy. Anyone who was on drugs would have thought they were awesome.

Heres some Ben Kweller for you to aquaint yourself with if you've not had the pleasure.



We were looking for a place to chill out and watch not so close that we would get burst eardrums and preferably somewhere I could knit :)

When some great people waved us over and said we could share with them. That's how we met Helen and Larry who are true fans of live music, we had a wicked day and because we looked after eachothers chairs we had a place to sit for the whole time the concert was on.


Truly good times to be had people watching to, these guys built a massive beercan castle which I jumped up to hand them some extra beer cans and as they were adding them I was grabbing a photo and OH NOES !!! Awesome action shot!












So to top the awesome day of great weather, cool music and good company off I finished a whole sock and then when I got home Mum and Dad had sent me the most beautiful easter flowers all purple easter daisies and lillies and we were out on the verandah having a glass of wine and talking about the day and a lady rocked up the driveway and she was like "Are you Kathy and Matt?" which we conceded and she said "I'm sorry I forgot to deliver these as well" and handed me a box of nommy chocolate too and a cute as Giraffe toy. It made sense then why the flowers had been signed from 'The Easter Girrafe' I just thought that Mum was trying to subvert the common paradigm :)