driving back at 2am i am stopped by a squad of police, thankfully i am not carrying nor under the influence of the sacred green goddess but i am blasting david neil and looking somewhat dangerous from a police perspective, i have dark skin, i'm wearing a hood, and i'm dressed in black plus i'm not intimidated. these are all qualities a policeman dislikes generally. he asks me where i am going to and where i have been, i explain...
'david neil, preformed by kilbey and maymi in newtown, you know the dead canadian rockstar, the one who dies three times.'
he's looking at me strangely, 'have you been drinking?'
'no i don't drink at all.'
he looks suspicious, 'count to ten.' he shoves a black box into my mouth and i take a long moment to reorganise my personal space, i reach 8 and he lets me go.
yeah david neil, let me tell you about that, wow, i didn't plan on going, i hadn't organised a ticket plus i am stone cold broke but my friend rehan rang me and asked if i was going, so i agreed to meet him inside. as usual i arrived early and i thought i'd get a ticket when maymi who is standing outside invites me inside and organises a cup of tea for me. what a gentleman, we chat a bit about his background, being a decendant of the tubes and the grateful dead, he is from san francisco and he has excellent knowledge on all things musical and best of all he is his own man, an individual, i like him, it's easy to relax around him, he invites me into the small dressing room, it's tiny, there's a deflated raft laying on the floor, we both wish we had some weed, but we enjoy a little chat about dmt and various methods of ingesting. later i end up at the merchandise desk, steve drops a bag of cds off and unfortunately i only manage to sell one. i really try hard but everyone wants the band they just saw. the gig itself was amazing, i really enjoyed it, quite different from the beach road, very nice clean sound for the most, the highlights were, 'neverness hoax' but also 'cockpit' which is a david neil tune, to be fair it was a very good show, the band are excellent, steve was perfection and ricky maymi was spectacular despite the fact he did not really feel the love from the crowd who were a bit lifeless. but from where i was it was brilliant. really brilliant. i got to meet wild child, and see tim and a venusian called skeet, glen, sam who looked amazing and rehan, i flirted with a waitress who had bumped her head earlier that afternoon and was a bit nervous, i had said i would be happy to keep an eye out for her and if she feels shaky come and tell me and we can swap places, she was fine. yeah it was another excellent night, and i love the david neil cd but really, you should see this stuff live. it was a shortish set but quality wise, it don't get much better.