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Monday, August 23, 2010

random-fact

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I was born sometime in the 70′s in Busselton, Western Australia – a pretty sleepy town that led to an extremely sheltered upbringing. I did get out of there and went to live in Sydney for many years – which is a whole other story.



Once, around 1999, I went and lived in Canadia for a year or so. It was seriously the best time – I made so many amazing friends and generally just had a complete blast! This is a picture that I came across the other day as I was going through some stuff, of me and my girlfriends on one of the best roadtrips ever. We drove from Grande Prairie to Edmonton to see a Matthew Good Band concert. For those of you that don’t know MGB – you don’t even know what you’re missing. For those of you that know Grande Prairie you’ll understand what a highlight it really was! We were pretty much completely obsessed, and he remains to this day one of my favourite artists – although he’s a bit of a tortured soul, all of his words seem to be very deep and meaningful. So - this is me, Holly, Shelley and Leone – beside ourselves with excitement at the prospect of being in the same space as Matthew Good. How we managed to even get there in one piece is tribute to the driving skills of whoever was behind the wheel because we were all as crazy about him as each other. I still have some of the little silver bits of tinsel that fell out of the ceiling while he was doing his last encore – I was running around picking them up off the floor like a crazy person. But, it’s amazing how looking at them in my photo album more than 10 years later takes me right back to that night – I can hear the music, see the crowd – it’s like it was yesterday.