One Night Stand

When we arrived in Tumby Bay on Saturday evening (4/2), the whole town was abuzz with thousands of people who came for the concert. People were everywhere! For a small country town like Tumby, it was very noticeably. The concert, entitled One Night Stand, was to be held on the town's footy oval. There was a massive stage, food vendors, merchandise vendors, and a ton of people.

Since the concert was still a ways from starting, we did a quick walk around Tumby. The beach at Tumby is also quite gorgeous. On the pier a MASSIVE pelican perched itself on top a light post. This thing was amazing. It let me get extremely close for my pictures too. The pelican had the most beady, evil-looking eyes ever. Nice birdie...

The concert was a lot of fun. Since I had to preach the next day, I decided to take it easy and not mosh like a crazy man. That was a good choice. We ended up standing not too far from stage and so we had a pretty good view of all the acts. It was nice to just stand and enjoy the music. Maybe I am growing up a bit.

The first act was a band called the Jezabels (http://www.myspace.com/jezabelsband ). They were actually one of my favorite acts for the night, as they have this amazing female lead singer. She really has an awesome voice. The band was a pretty standard rock band, but the lead made them unique. Go check out their stuff if you are interested.

The second act was a techno-dance-pop band called Art vs. Science (http://www.myspace.com/artvsscience ). They were quite a bit of fun actually. They sing about absolutely meaningless stuff, but their tunes are catchy and danceable. I enjoyed them quite a bit. The crowd enjoyed them even more. Everybody was jumping up and down, dancing, and going nuts.

The last act of the night was Birds of Tokyo (http://www.birdsoftokyo.com/ ). I already told you about them, as they played at the Clypsal 500. They were even better this time around, putting on an amazing show and really working the crowd.

The lineup of bands was just awesome.

Since this was put on by the national broadcasting company of Australia, the concert was streamed all over the country. There were cameras swooping in and out of the crowd and radio hosts on stage between sets...the whole works. I think they did a great job putting the whole thing on.

After the show all the crowds dispersed to party the night away (a sad part of the evening). We eventually made our way back to Thuruna to sleep, rise early, and start driving back home so I could preach.

In Christ,

Chris