East Brisbane Bowls Club - THE NIGHT CRASH, MOSCOW SCHOOLBOY, THE WILD, 1970s DICTATOR CHIC

I was really looking forward to seeing a gig at the East Brisbane Bowls Club as it is in the area and 4ZZZ promote most of the acts there. Arriving at around 9.30pm, the place seemed quiet from the outside, however it was an intermission before Moscow Schoolboy played. An interesting location with very cheap beer, a seemingly tight-knit community of regular punters and one of the best examples of what other venues should aim for in location amenities:



Hats off to the East Brisbane Bowls Club's (EBBC) acumen when it came to the decision of whether or not to purchase the top of the range urinal with the drip'n'spray tray optional extra. The urination landing (and the tops of my shoes) were bone dry, placing these facilities on a par with the Novotel Brisbane Conference Room facilities where there are the current day's newspaper's front pages clipped on the wall above the urinal - genius. Back to the gigs..

The sound quality at the EBBC was quite a letdown with both acts that I watched sounding more like just poor rock noise, especially the vocals.




Moscow Schoolboy were the first act that my mate and I saw, and it was OK at best. The sound setup not being favourable to any band on the night.





The band following Moscow Schoolboy was The Wild. True graduates of the school of rockin' out (and no, that was not a pisslame pun on School of Rock), these guys had the moves..


That's a fav rockin' out photo of mine, love the blurring.. The overall sound of The Wild was a definite step-up from Moscow Schoolboy however, I didn't find myself overawed by their music. I wouldn't mind hearing them again if they were a support for a fav band of mine at a place with better sound quality.

Towards the end of The Wild's set, my mate and I departed for the city to catch up with a few mates playing pool. Apologies to 1970s Dictator Chic for not stickin' around to hear them. My original wingman faded (went home in a cab) and I gained my flatmate as my new co-pilot as we taxied into an establishment that would only let students in..


I successfully gained entry into said club with my haggard student ID. Note the following:

• the chunk missing near the Queensland Rail logo
• my 17 year old good looks and charm
• the expiry date of 31 March 2004
• the colour-bleached side of my face

Said club was pretty ordinary inside, however, outside I met ein schönes deutsches Mädchen which was the prelude for a truly amazing weekend..

The good luck did not end there.. I successfully answered a seemingly difficult question on JJJ this afternoon to score tickets to the closed gig of The Beautiful Girls. Terri Psiakis (hah, I originally spelt her first name wrong but got the last name correct) played a Magic Dirt track and asked for the name of the beautiful girl who was singing - a very deft search to the Magic Dirt website revealed the answer as Adalita, which I buzzed in as quickly as possible. Expect to see photos and a write-up here of the gig that only JJJ contest winners can get into..
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Student ID card obfuscated using Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program - www.gimp.org - free for Linux, Windows, etc and used by various Hollywood studios in the place of Photoshop.