The Tuesday with Spacey Jane concert

 Hi,

After a day working at home Mike and I were ready to head into town for our Spacey Jane concert.  We had a lovely dinner at Bin44.  I had the pumpkin risotto.  Mike had the fish n chips.

Smudge lurking through the monitors - Urban cat style

The evening was a bit rainy, but not too bad.  And no wind at all.  We were 5 minutes early at the Shed 6 doors and the rain was falling lightly as we waited.  The gates opened and Mike did his awesome queue technique and we were in fairly quickly.

Waterfront after Bin44

Turns out we got to the front and were only 3 people from the fence before the stage.  And sometimes there were quite short people in front of me and I had an excellent view.

How did we end up in the mosh pit, 3 people deep from the front?

Spacey Jane

Park Rd were the support band on at 8.30pm and played until around 9.15.  They are a local band and the young people around us knew all their songs!  The lead singer had a really good stage presence for someone that looked Toby's age.  With awesome frantic dance moves between song lines.

Speaking of young people.  Yes, we were by far the oldest people.  If I had to guess, I would say the average age was 20.  If you were 25, you would have been one of the oldest in that crowd.  As Mike said, after us, the next oldest person was probably the lead singer of Spacey Jane.  Hahahah.

One young guy spoke to Mike as we stood in the mosh pit surrounded by exuberant, enthusiastic youths and asked if we were related to someone in the band.  When Mike said no, we were just here to enjoy the music, the chap said that he reckoned his Dad would do the same.

Hahahah.

Spacey Jane probably played for an hour - or a tad over that.  Not a long set.  The crowd loved it.  They did play the two songs I know well - and they were crowd favourites.  Mike and I were energised by being surrounded by a bunch of young folk out enjoying the concert.  Not a lot has changed from when we were in our 20s in concerts.  Hot, sweaty.  Beer cans thrown around (ok - the cans seemed to be Jim Beam and Coke cans).  Vaping.  A bit of pot.  Still young and stupid.  Hahahah.  But people were kind to others.  Someone left and said I could have their spot. Another difference is the amount of phone use.  They all put their phones up and recorded stuff.  Constantly.  Snapchat was the app the young guy next to me was using all the time. No need for a big screen - you can just check out the phone above your head.

We saw a few people faint. In fact, when one young woman fainted just in front of us, the lead singer noticed and stopped the song. He came over to make sure she was alright as they picked her up and brought her over the security fence.  In fact, earlier the security guy had jumped the fence and picked up a person to our right and carefully carried them out.   

I was in my hoodie all night - and it was hot.  But lucky I do deadlifts for strength, eh?  

It finished and we headed out into the much cooler night outside.  Jumped in the car and were home by 11pm.  Up at 6.30am for a session at the gym.  Leg day.

Have a lovely day.

Love,

Angela