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I don’t seriously know how I’m going to be able to survive this week. Getting home from a loud and exhaustive Cat Empire show at 12:30 am, then up at 6 for a 7:30 am meeting this morning is not a good combination.

Last night was awesome though – make no mistake. The Cat Empire played a tops show… especially the two ‘last’ songs. There was some serious drum soloing going on pre-encore, and the drummer and bassist moved into playing a couple of riffs from other songs for about 10 minutes which was quite cool :) But that was then topped by the last last song where Harry did some cool voice percussion work, and conducted the band at the same time. Amazing communication and musicianship.

I gotta say… during the first three-quarters of the show, quite a few of the boys were looking a bit tired and emotional. Which is interesting considering that last night was only the second of eight shows. Harry was looking particularly tired. Or drunk. I couldn’t quite work out which. But the last couple of songs, and then the encore, they really looked like they were just hanging around on stage having a jam – the Empire Horns boys were dancing around behind the drums, then making up things to play in the middle of a solo… it was just cool.

Still, it was a fantastic night. They played a whole heap of new songs, which I enjoyed… but they missed out So Long, which is a probably a favourite of mine. I’m hoping the set list might change on Saturday. Wednesday night is fan night, and fans have been voting for the set list over here – it’s looking very very old school… only two songs out of the top 25 are off the latest album! So tomorrow night will be fantastic.

Last night was definitely the loudest Cat Empire show I’ve been to. I’m wondering if it was just where I was standing, but the mix wasn’t super awesome at various times during the evening either. I will be aiming for a more central standing spot on Wednesday night.

Anyway… tonight is Kedron meeting #1 – hang out time with a few of the leaders so far for the primary camp. It should be pretty relaxing – not much organising yet. I just have to stay awake until then…

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