Date: February 5, 2010
Venue: Ric’s Bar, Brisbane
Acts: Butcher Birds
My first gig at Ric’s Bar under its new management. The new staff’s (all of them presumably dragged in from the George next door) lack of knowledge about Tsing-tao is laughably predictable while the new lighting rig and wider stage is a welcome addition. It’s a case of mixed feelings, I guess.
Butcher Birds, playing here for the first time in … forever, are in good form despite a few sound issues with the foldbacks. My sole disappointment — and, strangely, my most enduring memory — is when the band abruptly aborts Yoko Coma after just a few bars after Jo has some difficulties syncing with her band-members because of the afore-mentioned sound issues.