Last night I went with Lisa to see cassette play at bar bodega, man I miss that place,
I haven’t been there since last year, in fact I am sure that the last time I was there Was for the fur patrol un-hinged gig, hell, that was like august??? Maybe I have been there since, but I was probably drunk, and don’t remember. Ahh well, that’s how it is I guess….
Well a bit of background on cassette, they are a wellington band that skipped the nest early last year For Melbourne, yes every wellington band seems to do that I know. I saw them play once, with betchadupa and Slim, and goodshirt, who where all fairly good live acts… cassette has tom Watson in it, covering guitar And the vocals, tom Watson was in head like a hole, who I am sure where the headliners at my first ever Real big outdoor concert,
Ahh happy memories there. So I haven’t really heard much from cassette, apart from the occasional tune on radio active, which is only when Mister Adam is listening to it, cause I am not radio friendly. They have an EP out, which was very critically acclaimed, but I don’t own it, I might go buy it after last get it though.
Lisa and I showed up at bodega at about 10:15, after watching part of one flew over the cuckoos nest, With Adam and nick, when we arrived we looked at the board to see that the shirleys where still playing *yawn* and that a band named ejector where still to come, so we went for a walk to get coffee, we wandered down about as far as ghuznee street, and had a coffee, well Lisa did, I had an iced chocolate, at the kahuna lounge,Then after a brief conversation about hot date, I decided we would go to star mart and look at the advertisement with her in it in cuisine magazine, but Cuba St star mart didn’t have it so we walked to manners mall, and found it there, After that thrilling expedition we returned to bar bodega. Thankfully it had stopped raining, cause otherwise that trip would have sucked.
we arrived to see one band, removing all their gear from the stage, apparently they where the shirleys…
After that we where “treated” to a short set by ejector, who look little older than intermediate kids.After a lengthy set up, cassette took the stage and pretty much entertained me until 1:30, damn good gig.
The band are amusing, and crowd friendly, they had a very strange on stage game for one song it which Dave Fraser, the bassist and tom Watson had to keep their mouths as wide open as they could for the entire song.
I saw tom watsons fillings.
really entertaining, and it was worth all the waiting round, but probably not worth the drunken old man,Putting his hand on my thigh as we sat down in the few available seats around the tables there.. damn bodega needs more seating. Its such an ass to stand in there unless it’s really full. My only complaint Isn’t about bodega, or the band, its the crowd, I hate the way that when I go in there, I feel like I am invading On someone’s personal territory.
I mean yes, the bar is no bigger than someone’s lounge, but the crowd always seem to all know each other, and the band, and so wandering in there alone, or in a pair you feel out of place… maybe if I went there every day for a month, I would feel more at home with the place, but then again that would be a very expensive way to do things.