When:
01 Nov 2008, 08:00 PM
Where:
Chelsea Heights Hotel
corner Springvale and Wells Road
Chelsea Heights, Victoria
Australia
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Cost:
$25 + $2 booking fee
Good Fight (now Guesswork) are doing an encore performance, supporting Vanessa Amorosi once again at the Chelsea Heights Hotel. Tickets sold out well in advance of the last gig so you’ll need to get in quick!
We’d love to see you there at our second support gig of the amazing Vanessa Amorosi and, by clicking on the image below and buying your tickets through us, you’re helping to support the band which we really appreciate!
Don’t forget, tickets were all sold out a week or so before the last gig, so you’ll need to get in quickly!
Many thanks in advance. Can’t wait to see you there!
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- Good Fight at The Hallam Hotel
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I think you must have been coded into my very cells,
deeply embedded amongst my DNA,
strands of you coiled around
essential strands of me.
How else this inability
to erase you?
I put you out of my mind,
a tenant evicted, thrown out into empty streets,
a cat let out into the night air,
exiled from home but returned to nature
trying to untame the domesticated
or tame the wilderness.
I put you out of my mind
yet here you are
pulsing in my veins,
streaming hot red through my heart.
Trying not to think of you
my heart beats in three four timing,
your name waltzing in Spanish staccato,
the sharp quaver and grace note,
“my love”
How do I not think of you
when you are the movie’s score,
the opera’s libretto?
I fill my mind with the strains of Mendelssohn’s 64th Opera,
trying to sink you in melancholy ~
an alien landscape for you
hoping you will flee to more familiar terriotory.
You make yourself at home even here
and I find myself smiling your mischievous smile
into the darkness.
I am trying to turn the lights out on you
and your eyes are glowing.
I try to stifle you with silence
and still you sing.
I try to unravel you from my mind,
try to evict you from my home,
try to wipe your fingerprints from my skin,
your laughter from my throat,
your dimple from my face
and in that tiny gesture
of my hand on my cheek
soaking in tears
acknowledging their existence
I feel your touch.
You are still here
inside me
above me
beneath me.
To remove you from my world
is to take the living from my life.
4:53pm Monday
7.July.2003
(Cartoon courtesy of xkcd – go and check out his work and be sure to keep an eye on the alt text/titles he’s added to each!)
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My lovely and VERY talented friends, Juvita and Joel, are supporting one of Australia’s hottest bands – Thirsty Merc – this Sunday. Last week their band, Good Fight, played a fantastic set at the Peninsula Lounge on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. The night was aptly named “Girls Behaving Naturally” and featured three of the Peninsula’s hottest female singers. Kate George started out the night to a rapturous welcome. Her powerful, passionate vocals were greeted with stunned awe. This lady can ROCK! Next up was Meg O’Reilly and her band and, finally, Good Fight came on stage. Johnny Kendall, one phenomenal fiddler, joined them on the night to help recreate the magic he contributed to the bands’ latest single ‘Dublin Rain’. His playing is exquisite to say the least and added some heartbreaking riffs to almost all songs on their set (is it a riff if it’s played on the fiddle? I’ve no idea!). Between songs he threw out a little humorous flourish here and there which kept things moving along nicely.
Sidetracked – the intention of the post was to draw attention to Good Fight’s NEXT gig 
They’re playing at the Hallam Hotel, in Hallam, Victoria. If you’re in the area, you should definitely make an effort to come along. There are three support bands in the lead up to Thirsty Merc hitting the stage. Unfortunately, the third artist escapes me completely just now, but the first two are draw card enough, so little matter. First up is Good Fight. Now with Luke Mears on drums and Ben Clacy on bass, their sound has grown and expanded exponentially over the last six months. Featuring their stand out new song “Dublin Rain” (listen to a sneak peek here – “Dublin Rain Preview” or BUY it here – “Dublin Rain Two Track Promo CD”), the beautiful ‘Open Your Eyes’ (the second track on the CD) and their latest addition to the set, the rhythmic, gutsy song ‘Centre Of Your World’, this will be well worth your time and petrol to come along.
Following them is Victoria’s rocking, quirky boys from ‘The Wonderul’. Another local band whose sound has matured rapidly over the past year with the addition of drummer, Noel Tenney and bassist, Pete Mollica. With well-known frontmen Olly and Scuzzi, they’re bound to raise the roof and get you jumping. I’ve yet to hear them live as a full band and can’t wait to hear how they sound as a four piece.
As I said earlier, if you’re in the area, you should definitely get along to this gig. Yes, I know the headliners are the incredible Thirsty Merc, but I think the true focus of the evening should be given to supporting our local artists. Not only is this a nice thing to do it’s also damn encouraging and (hopefully) will help put a little money into the pockets of four people (Juvita and Joel; Olly and Scuzzi) who have been providing free entertainment for all of you Mornington Peninsula-ites and beyond over the past 3 to 8 years. The bigger the crowd support bands can draw, the more exposure they get, the more gigs they get, the more chance they have of being heard by recording studios and radio stations. Come on, kiddies, do your bit to get them on the air!
(Update:The third support artist is Andrew Swift.)
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Rosebud Pier - What Lies Beneath
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You accuse me of theft.
How can one steal what was given?
Call me home wrecker; say I took a battering ram
to the fortress of your love, smashed the windows,
snuck off with your valuables
while you slept.
The only true thing there is, yes, you were asleep
and while you had your eyes closed
he opened the door
crammed diamonds and rubies into my soul,
gave pre-Raphaelite light
to my eyes,
filled my senses full of honey,
offered up Rilke to my ears,
Chopin to my body,
Neruda to my heart.
Say I shattered your trust.
He broke it long before my arrival on the scene.
I showed up and the tables were overturned,
the drawers emptied out and strewn across the room
as though at a market bazaar.
His heart, soul and mind were on display amongst the treasures.
No price tags. He was giving them away
and his mouth was a smiling, wide
open
door.
I stole nothing.
He was given.
4:30pm Saturday
12.November.2005
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