tales from an ordinary world

1999-03-26

Ballarat. We hit the pubs and after the token Irish pub, we come across the Bridge Mall Inn, which seems to be the local student bar. Bands for the night were F. S. McCracken and Insect Girl. McCracken were way into the 70's thing, with wigs, slides of Denis Walter, and K-Tel records being scratched on the turntable. They were a lot of fun. I was prolly a bit too tired to enjoy Insect Girl as much as I should have - they certainly seemed pretty good, and they seemed to pay their dues a little, with the keyboardist wearing his Stax t-shirt. They even had some guy up front of stage, blowing bubbles. He'd take a drag of his cigarette, and blow the smoke inside an opaque bubble, that would burst into a puff of smoke. Very nice...When we walked home, just around the back of the pub we found a brick rendition of Stonehenge, or so it seemed.