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.