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The boy had trouble

Friday, 10 August, 2007

Tuesday was spent editing Gordon's article, arranging various bits and pieces for The Briefing and editing half a Bible Brief. I was mortified when I learnt that for the first time ever, Tony had beat me to the deadline—he had finished all his work whereas I was still going. Oh well; I did just organise a conference for 108 people! After work, I dropped off CDs at Greg's place and picked up the CD he'd left for me on the verandah, went home, set the VCR and then went off to Bible Study. Ben, however, went to the Moore College Lectures.

Wednesday I went in to work at MM to finish off the second half of the Bible Brief and to work on e-news for August. I left at 12 and went to New College to go through the CASE filing cabinets to find the information I needed to put the rest of the CASE audio online. Greg also dropped by and gave me the other CD (the one with the God and the Family conference stuff which I really want to listen to—particularly Jeremy Halcrow's talk about the work-life balance). It turns out that this audio thing is actually a little more time-consuming than I had anticipated; I didn't count on stuff being missing from the list and stuff coming to me unedited. This means I now have to edit the audio files and check the sound quality of the bits where the speakers give multimedia examples of things, and the whole thing is now going to take a bit longer than anticipated. I'll get paid for it but it means it will be a little while longer before I enjoy a four-day week. Bother.

I was home by about 1:30 and decided to watch taped House over lunch. Then I worked on CASE stuff all afternoon until 5:30 when I got dinner started. Ben was home at about 6 so we ate and then I got changed. I've been experimenting a bit with make-up this week—wearing it to work and stuff—just so I learn to feel a bit more comfortable with it. I don't know what the rest of the MM staff think about it but so far, only Anna and Jess have commented (but then I do work in a predominantly male environment). I wanted to get a bit dressed up for the concert so I put on foundation and lipstick, and tried to tidy up the mascara around my eyes so it didn't look like I'd been punched in the face.

We caught the train to Circular Quay and it was just a short walk from there to The Basement. I had booked tickets for eight but unfortunately Lizz dropped out at the last minute. Offers of a free ticket on Facebook were fruitless so I decided not to bother trying to find a replacement; I wasn't losing any money because Lizz would still be paying for the ticket she wasn't using. It just made me feel rather ... what's the adjective ... foolish? annoyed? frustrated? something?—because, in the end, Yvonne didn't make it either—she forgot that FEVA was having a Suppertalk on that night so she gave her ticket to Judith, and I had to convince Rosey of the necessity of her turning up at 7:30 so we could all go in together because silly Moshtix does not issue printed tickets and I wasn't sure if she would be able to get in if I—the holder of the credit card on which the tickets were booked—was not there with her. It makes me wonder whether it is actually productive organising group bookings and whether I am better off, next time, saying to people, “We're going and if you want to come, book your own ticket.” It seems slightly more callous and slightly less loving, but it certainly would cause less hassles for me!

What made me feel even worse was that Daniel D was refused at the door because he was wearing shorts. He had come straight from tennis (so he also had his racquet with him) and I had forgotten to make known that there was a dress code at The Basement. As a result, he had to go all the way home, get changed and come all the way back again (and then he accidentally locked his wallet and keys in the house which meant he had to go stay with a relative that night). We, however, got a very good position on the side—we all got stools and we sat there, watching the tables filling up with diners who were then served rather yummy-looking food. Watching them made Ben more amenable to getting the dinner + show package to celebrate some special occasion like an anniversary or birthday; it's about $65, I think, for the dinner + show which isn't too bad considering you pay $27 for general admission and the “dinner” includes two courses.

And what made me feel even worse was that I didn't realise that the main act wouldn't be on stage until 10-10:30 pm, and Fish and Jarrod had to get up at 6 the following morning. Oh dear! In the end, Fish and Judith left three songs into the main act. (I'm sure the people behind them were pleased because they got their seats.)

The support act was Rob Longstaff and he was very good—terrific guitar player, very grassroots/blusey/jazzy sort of music with funny lyrics. I wasn't hugely into him but Ben really liked him.

Bobby Flynn and his band came on at 10. (Why do clubs do that? Don't they know people have to work tomorrow???) It started off with just Bobby and his main guitarist, but then the rest of the band came onstage—a drummer, a bass guitar player, a guy who controlled the digital images on the screen behind them, and this guy who was the full-on percussion section, with bongos, congas, triangle, a cymbal, shakers, chimes, something that made a rattlesnake sound (is there a name for that?) and this weird thing that looked like a lei made of weird nuts.

They played a bunch of Bobby originals—“Any Means” (which is one of my favourites), “Halo” (which I hadn't heard before but loved), “Human” and, of course, “The Boy Had Trouble”—and some covers—“Under the Milky Way” and “Superfreak” (done very differently to his Idol performance) and something else I didn't recognise. Oh, and the song he wrote, sitting on his verandah and falling in love with a girl but being too scared to tell her.

It was such a great night—great performance, highly recommend it. Apparently they're going into the studio for a while to record and album so I'm looking forward to being able to hear his material again from the comfort of my lounge room.

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