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Blog # …something
I always click bold when I’m writing these blogs so people can read it better but I have a sneaky suspicion no one reads them. I put this down to the fact that I am inconsistant with the dates I post them, ie. when I say ‘two days before the next blog’ what I mean is ‘a week and a half’ or a number of days more than what I said. Numbers and punctuation have never been my strong point in life, at school or any other point but from now I promise that I will potentially be better at putting up posts more consistently.
I guess my imaginary readers want to know about how tour is going… the answer is as follows;
I did a post a few weeks back talking about all the adventures of tour. Adventures, I have recently found out, can also mean ‘trial’ and have connotations similar to that of crawling through miles of mud with barbed wire catching at your clothes and crocodiles snapping at your ankles.
I’m not saying it in the way that you hate everything about it and wish to be somewhere else (which is the first thought you imaginary readers had!) but that all you have to do is endure the mile and then by the end you will be better off. That is what tour has succumbed to. Haha, there is no bad spin on it, it is still better than any alternative to spending the summer months.
We have just left Thames after playing at the Salutation Hotel, and the night before at Ruakaka Tavern (which was the bomb btw, if you’re ever up that way for a gig then stop by!). The Beaches of Northland left us wanting to permanently move north yet thoughts of wonderful Dunedin have constantly tugged at the heartstrings for the last month. We will be coming home to Dunedin sometime in the near future and will be playing gigs in the city throughout march. BUT NOW we have arrived in the Coromandel and true to the nature of Black Boy Peaches we organized a last minute gig.
So I am sitting here in a tent typing away on Tommo’s macbook pro, drinking good old Speights, watching the crew prep tea before we set up an play the Tui Lodge. Ahead of us is sun, beaches, beer, road and more as we head south to Cambridge for a show on thursday then Parachute Music Festival for the weekend. After that the long trip home down the east coast of the north island, across the Cook Straight and southward till we reach the Motherland known as Otago. We are a better band now, stronger, more athletic and toned. Our computer hacking skills and band playing skills have increased tenfold and the only question the imaginary audiance out there has to ask themselves is this: When will I next see Black Boy Peaches play?
For now we have more to offer.
The next post will be in two days.
Summer tour update #2
We are in Raglan and after two weeks of rain following us around the country the sun is finally showing. I know that talking about weather is a bad way to start a conversation but when you are on a Summer Tour in the North island you expect a certain amount of grace from the weather man.
Since the last blog we have done a fair few gigs, Smugglers bar (Nelson), Mikey’s Bar (Picton), the Interislander Ferry, Medusa Music Club (Wellington), the Homestead Bar (Masterton), Butler’s Reef (Oakura) and now tonight we are doing an outdoor concert at Raglan Kopua camping ground. Progress up the country is good, music becoming more and more appreciated as we go, haha- probably because tour not only gives you sweet muscles but you cannot help but to improve as a band.
Tradition; a long-established or inherited way of thinking or acting:
Tour tradition; press ups (everyday, improving by one each day until the end of tour), swimming (finding a wave, a river, a beach or a lake in which to dip thy body: everyday of tour), making obscure noises everytime you see a policeman, drinking beer (budweiser, tui, speights… or whatever we can find).
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention some important details that have assailed us thus far. So while in Nelson we met up wbhich my little brother and his mate who were coming up to meet us for a night or two and while my little brother (who is an athlete of more than 6feet that trains everyday) was around I decided it was time for a bit of a wrestle. I (who am a scrawny musician whose only claim to any aspect of toughness is a few tattoos) start by slapping him in the face and five minutes later a tie is called an I leave the hous panting – ready to head with the band to Picton for our next gig. Suddenly my hand is extremely hot and shaking and I realize with a sense of dread I have injured my hand. It felt similar to the time I smashed up my shoulder in a bmx accident so I knew it was bad. It turns out that I subluxted my carpal mettacarpal joint on the outside of my left hand. The photo below shows you the genius solution to the problem: I played the gig that night single handed on the drums while Tom played the guitar. A complete role reversal, although I still sang. Amy, my wonderful physio wife, managed to manipulate the bones back into order so they clicked back into the joint then waalla – next day just play through the pain.
There are plenty more stories to tell but the internet usage in this cafe is about to run dry so I will update you after a few more gigs. Chur
More blog to read by saturday night. Peace
Blog#3 Summer Tour
It has BEGUN! And with some class I may add. Haha, not really at all to be honest, just the usual deal.
If you haven’t been on tour it pretty much goes like this; packing, waiting for people, re packing, driving, listening to Foo Fighters and Foster the People, unpacking, setting up, playing, selling CD’s, getting rained out, packing, driving, listening to Incubus, and so on and so forth in a repetitive cycle. Some people say repetition is the key to memorization and discipline but really repetition is the key to insanity. Ask anyone who types at a computer for 8 hours a day or works in a factory folding chocolate boxes together or cleaning toilets in motels. There is really nothing glamorous about being on tour… other than high pay rate, travelling around the country, playing epic gigs with a sweet sound system and awesome lighting rig and maybe the odd other thing, BUT you do get some good stories. ie. organizing last minute gigs, sleeping in a barn, swimming in the rain, busking in a summer storm.
What I am trying to say is if you aren’t on tour this summer you’re playing it safe, which is fine, seriously…but we are having fun and as Tom so aptly quoted before we left, “we were born to be on tour” and so to all who are reading this while having to push through the daily grind, we salute you and hope that in reading my blogs over the next fours weeks you can escape with us somewhat…and if that is not enough you can always join us along the way somewhere 
BLOG# 2 – A real description
Friday night, 16th December, gig number one of of Summer Tour.
It was a freakin’ sweet start to tour on Friday as it has been a while since we have played in Dunedin. Dunedin as everyone is well aware of has a world reknown music scene, although I could not pin down exactly why. There are about 5 iconic Dunedin Music venues around the town – in no particular order Sammy’s, Re-Fuel, Chicks Hotel, 12 Below and new to the scene- Urban Factory. There are others of course; 10 bar, Isis, Regent Theatre and so on but for some reason those five stand out. They’re not flash or exceptionally unique (apart from the fact that a bunch of them are underground, literally) but what they have is the ‘vibe’, what all music venues strive for.
Hence 12 Below on Friday 16th, PRIMo.
30 people, BBP’s first gig in 8months, cranked guitar, mega drums, and sweet sweet vibes. Supported by ‘Settler’, thank you very much, and sponsered by no one. ‘Indie’- as in individually labelled, would be the kind of terms that would label us as a band although our sound is far from indie. We kind meet somewhere in between the Killers album ‘Sam’s Town’, Muse – ‘Black Holes and revelations’ and Foo Fighters- ‘Wasting Light’- and although all of these bands have in someway hit the mainstream it is the in-between songs that we relate to.
The last song we played on friday was called ‘let’s run away’ and is to be the first track on our EP called ‘Mirrors’ which we are recording early next year. “STORY” : We play acoustic gigs at Alibi in the octogon on fridays, and one friday I decided to test a new song I had been writing – lets run away. It starts quiet and builds and builds until at the end you cannot play any louder or and harder. So we did this and classicly a fight broke out. There are a few fights now again but not usually between friends, and as they got kicked out and the lights turned on and the bar closed me and Tom turned to each other and suddenly realised what had started the fight.
It was this song we finished with on Friday and it was this song that capped the night of the 16th as one of our best shows to date.
If you weren’t there, I’m sorry you missed it, if you were there – you will know I tell no lies.
Blog #1
It’s always quite funny when you start writing something new, like this. It took me five minutes to pick the bloody font for the title. Haha, make sure you comment if you think I picked a good font or not. Blogs, eh… (Editor note: the formatting for this post is different so this doesn’t really make sense any more…)
So my name is Hamish, no nick names, and I’m the singer for Black Boy Peaches. We are an alternative rock duo from Dunedin, New Zealand, which is a new addition to the band. We were a four piece but as to the changes we had a few members leave off down lucrative career paths and chasing foreign women. That leaves me and Tom, the drummer. Actually Tom started chasing a foreign woman as well! But she decided she liked the fact he was in a band and instead of Tom quitting on one of the most exciting things in his life he decided to marry her! So - BOOM – Tom’s engaged to an English woman, sweet-bix.
Sat 3rd Dec was our first gig as a two piece. We played at Samstock Music Festival out in Mosgiel, rocking the tin shed with our well sculptured alt-rock tones, phat drums, cranked guitar and super awesome computerized, synchronized, phatanized synth melodies. It was quite different to what we are used to doing
but as you can see in the photo I’m donning the ‘Britney mic’ so I could thrash around a bit. We believe in energy, in the physical sense, (not the whacky universal sense that I have never gotten my head around) and so the ‘Britney mic’ was an awesome decision so movement and music co-op. In the photo I’m playing a fender tele with a Marshall class 5 valve amp and Tom is playing his Yamaha Stage Custom drum kit with Dark Kustom cymbals and hats. But back to the Britney Mic; I think I’m brave actually seeing as the last male to use one live was Michael Jackson - BOOM – Greatest Pop Singer Ever. No influence on our part but you just got to give him the cred. We are playing again soon, Dec 16th at a sweet venue in Dunedin called ‘XII Below’ (max 100 people). It’s the start of our NZ Summer Tour which is what the end of the year is for. Beaches, music, very cold beer, beaches, vans, epic lights, beer, music, music, beaches….you know?
That is all for now. Just so you know doing two Blogs a week so more reading soon. Yeeeah. Oh yeah, and I think I changed font like 6 times before I finished this. New things eh,?
Hamish (no nicknames)