Lefty Banana

We first went to see The Whitlams perform their Eternal Nightcap album with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House. It was a lovely night, a Friday, and Circular Quay even put on fireworks timed perfectly with the gig's interval. After the interval, they played a few of their hits from other albums. But seeing Eternal Nightcap played as a set was a highlight, and one I wasn't expecting. It's always been my favourite Whitlams album, with its dark themes of self-destruction, broken love and disillusion. The weird thing about the night though was Tim Freedman's hair: ever since I've been a fan of the Whitlams, he's had disshevelled scruffy hair. At the Opera House though, it seems he'd gotten a proper haircut, and with the grey scattered through it, he looked like, well, a banker. :)

I was pretty wrecked for the next day though because we drove back from Sydney immediately after the gig - and got home about 1.30am. Gone are the days when I could do such things and be chirpy in the morning. No, instead I wasted almost the entire weekend lazing around in shorts and a grotty t-shirt, doing some gardening or watching some iView.

Sunday night, another Tim with a bit of an unusual hair thing happening. We went to see Tim Minchin on his latest national tour. Being a comedy musical act, I found some of his older material got a less-sharp reaction from the audience than it should have. But that's just because most the people there have heard songs like Canvas Bags, If You Really Love Me and Dark Side before. His new material though, because he was able to deliver it fresh to the crowd, went down a treat. I loved Prejudice and Confessions amongst the new songs, but some of the others were a bit too strongly tainted by his dislike of religion - it's a theme I relate to, but he can go a bit overboard and harp on about it.