Melbourne>Sydney
It has been a few days since I have had decent internet and the time to write. We played a show with CYHSY in Melbourne the day after Laneway. We didn’t really do a whole lot that day other than hang out at the hotel and then play. The show went well. I was really tired afterwards and we had to wake up early the next morning for a flight so I didn’t hang out much after the show.
The next morning we woke up early and caught a flight to Sydney. It was an off day for us but we had to do a bunch of label and promo stuff. As we were going to pick up our luggage we ran into Lenny from My American Heart. We had met him at a party in L.A. a few months back. As we were talking to him we looked outside and saw Kevin Devine and Aaron and Mike from mewithoutYou! We had all been bummed knowing that Kevin was going to be in Melbourne the day we had to leave so it was awesome running into him. It was nice to see Aaron and Mike as well as Mike’s wife Sarah. It had been a good few months since seeing them. Pretty mind blowing running into friends and people we know halfway across the world.
The press stuff all went well. We got to go do an interview at JJJ which was really cool. It seems like an amazing station. We went out to dinner with a few people from the label here that night. They took us to a cool italian/pizza place and had an amazing time hanging out and eating and having some good conversation. Afterwards Mariam was kind enough to take us to the beach to hang out for a little while.
Once we made it back to the hotel we watched a bit of I’m Not Here. We didn’t make it all the through the movie though becasue we got distracted hanging out. The hotel was filled with other bands who were playing the Soundwave festival. It really seemed like there was nothing but bands at the hotel. I tried to watch the movie again once we got back to the room but was just too tired.
Chris, Robert and I all woke up early the next morning and got some breakfast and then caught a cab to go see the zoo. We caught a ferry that goes by the Sydney Opera house and then we took the sky bucket over the whole zoo. The ferry ride was beautiful and the sky bucket thing was pretty awesome too. We ended up making it to every exhibit I think. The zoo was absolutely amazing. The coolest zoo I have ever been to by far. Robert got to touch a kangaroo. I don’t think he was supposed to, but it came out on the sidewalk and he did. As soon as he touched it the kangaroo brushed his hand off of him. He didn’t like it much. You are able to get so close to all the the animals. I would recommend it to anyone going to Sydney.
The show that night was really great. We were exhausted from walking around the zoo all day but the crowd was really responsive which made it a bit easier to get into playing. A lot of the label came out to the show and we hung out afterwards. We are really excited about the label team over here and it has been really great getting to meet them all.
I was absolutely exhausted by the time we got to the hotel and passed out trying to upload pictures. We have to go to the venue now so hopefully I can upload a bunch tonight when we get back.
My name is Jeremiah Edmond. I live in Atlanta, GA with my wife and our cat O'Malley. I play the drums in a band called 