We stayed at a couple more places before we got back to Nashville. Omaha, Nebraska was the first place after Colorado. I guess your average kinda city. We met up with Randy Maricle there, AB's manager. We played a church there (whatever night of the week). After the show we played a game of cricket with some of the people in the church. We had to show them of course, but we had a great time playing it with them. The next day we played at a bookstore. The owner let us pick out a CD each for free. I picked out the Mat Kearney CD, and bought a CD from a fairly new band called Red Umbrella. I guess they are a combination of Travis, Stereophonics and Coldplay.
Next was up to Des Moines, Iowa, for another book store, I think. That was just a day there, then we drove to Nashville during the night.
Most of the guys live around Franklin, which is about 40mins south of Nashville. It's a cool little area. It looks like Currumbin Valley, but with a few more people living there. I wouldn't mind living here, it is beautiful. I'm staying with the Smallbones. They have a small office area to the side, and I just sleep in there.
The weather is quite hot during the day, and the humidity can get high. It's now 7 here and the sun is still well above the horizon, I guess the sun sets about 8:30, so it's great to stay up and hang outside. They also have firebugs here, which is really cool to see.
So last week was just spent hangin out and doing some work. We watched the Australia v Japan game on Monday. It was so great to get a win in our first world cup game for however many years.
Early Friday morning we drove up to Ichthus festival in Willmore, Kentucky. AB played on the Worship stage at 1 pm. About 100 turned out which was pretty good considering no one had heard of them.Delirious? played that night. Their set was not as "rocky" as I've seen before, so they weren't amazing, but it was still good to see them. After that we went to the local college to play a dodgeball tournament. On a preivous Ichthus tour AB played some Dodgeball with the other bands, so the festival organised a dodgeball tournament for us to play in. Basically anyone could enter a team to challenge the Australian team. "Captain Swanny" set up a myspace page, check it out...http://www.myspace.com/australiandodgeballteam. Well we basically played 17 games straight of dodgeball, we came out the winners 12-5.
Forgot to mention that the dodgeball finished at 1am, and we had to get up at 6 the next morning!!! AB played mainstage at 9am Saturday morning, first band of the day. They got a pretty good crowd for that time of the morning. I got to use one of the new digital yamaha desks (PM5D to be precise, 24 aux out, awesome!!!!) to mix their in ears, so that was a great experience. Spent the rest of the day surviving the heat. That night Audio Adrenaline played. They are on their last tour, so it was great to see them for the last time. Also got to see Chris Tomlin, who wrote How Great is our God. He was awesome, some great good, praise and worship songs, I'd like to get his album.
After Audio we packed up all the merch and Sam, Swanny and I started the 3.5 hour drive home from Willmore to Nashville. Got home early morning, went straight to bed. Got up late Sunday morning, and headed out to Vince Emmett's (AB's producer for Main Attraction Album) house to watch the recorded game of Australia v Brazil. Needless to say I was disappointed by the 2-0 loss. I was hoping to get at least a draw, but our boys played execptionally well. I think there's a chance we could get to the next round. Vince has an amazing property right out the back of Franklin. On the way home Smalls drove me past a few sights of Franklin. The Newsboys recording studio, Rebecca St. James' studio, Michael W Smiths studio, the studio were DC Talk recorded Jesus Freak, Delirious' producers studio. So basically it was a tour of the christian artists studio's.
Which leads me to today. Had a great sleep-in...up at 12:40 :) Sam and Chris (Sam and Moo live with Chris and his wife, Chris is the bass player from Day of Fire) came round. We went and got some burgers for lunch and then off to the park for a spot of frisbee and fishing (not done at the same time of course). The amazing thing was we each managed to catch a fish :) Just played some basketball with Smalls, so I think it's time for bed.
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