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"Robert Atkins" <ratkins_usenet@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> On 2006-09-17, Chock <chock@nospam.com> wrote:
> > "Robert Atkins" <ratkins_usenet@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> >> Well, I'm off to the Hopetoun to see The Girls From The Clouds.
> >> Can't get much more inner-city Sydney than that!
> >
> > I was a big fan of The Clouds - how was the gig?
>
> Fan-freaking-tastic. Where else but the Hopetoun do you arrive at
> 8:30pm to see 2/3 of the headlining band sitting on the front step
> eating a kebab?
>
> Trish has been back in Sydney for over a year now and they'd released
> an EP (with Jodi's husband Tim Oxley on drums) as The Girls From The
> Clouds in 2005. Why wasn't I told?!?!

I heard a track from that played on ABC 702 Sydney, of all places.

>
> They played some new stuff from the EP, plus the demo they were
> giving out on the door, plus some of the old stuff which sounded
> great. When I closed my eyes it felt like first year again :-). I
> nabbed a setlist:
>
> Closer
> Say
> Mabel
> Saw you
> Princess
> Aqua
> Mary
> Super
> Wish
> Wibbley
> Domino
> Kathy
> Bye bye
> Do
> Show
> Calm
> Bower
> ----
> Sugar
> House
> Hero
> Beyond
>

Cool, looks like a lot of Clouds songs in there. I will have to check them
out sometime.

> Huge set, as you can see. All of it fantastic. They can still sing
> and they can still write bloody good pop songs. Great to have them
> back!
>
> Supporting were The Boobytraps -- anyone know if there's any relation?
> There was a certain rhino-familial resemblence between Jodi and one of
> the singers...
>

That's a diplomatic way of putting it!

Thanks for the review.


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