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Special guests and highlights included:

• The return of Mel
• The return of Raija
• The return of Madonna
• The return of beer songs
• The debut of The Slowdowns
• Marnie and Raine
• Poker machines relocated, walls painted.
• The return of the bass.

Dan's Report

Hey fellow Thetan YourSpacians,

Another great night; one of those trashy one’s we have from time to time. It’s GOOD trash. It’s thrash trash. We love it!

I thought it might help if I recited the YS MC list (we had a heap of chops and changes, WoW!):

I got up. I did covers fairly, and by popular demand did my ‘Protection Resurrection’.
Joe got up with RobRoy©, our new star bassist. They played the Motels, Matt Finish, had a jam, and a rocked out version of Joe’s song “Stumble”, (they relieved with a bit of a jam later, in which a lot of us got involved).
Melanie did about 5 songs.
Then we did Noel early, and with RobRoy© we played ‘I’m a Believer, ‘Act Naturally’, etc, except bloody Noel hijacks the song list and just carries on with what he thinks the audience wants to hear. He’s usually right, but BASTARD!!


Then Raija was up, but there was stuffing around with the guitar so I called Dave on and then wondered if I should have. I shouldn’t have but it worked out because Raija came on afterwards and was the sublime to Dave’s ridiculous.

I love Dave. He’s just hanging out till he can play drums downstairs. Good on him for trying out the distortion. It was completely out of control, but the experience it must give when such a thing happens in front of an observing audience is invaluable…? He is a star, mark my kurds.

The order gets a bit hazy from here, but you will know by the recording. The artists following were:

Madonna ‘Ana bh’bek min kul albi’ ‘I love you with all of my heart’. All of my heart loved to see her there. Isma Salib. All is new if you give it time.
Marni, for the love of her mum, Raine, who came to watch her play and is a cool chick herself.
Rex Havoc and the Jihad, who were Rex, Joe playing magnificently, Doug on awesome face harp, (and others I can’t recall at the minute).
The fabulous Slow Downs, who were the Throw Downs after the last beer song (of course the amazing Doug, and those two other dudes. Then there was a jam with others involved; it was GREAT).

Uncle Hal joined Uncle Rex to sing that song called “’A Kiwi try-a-fuck Shea-rer”.
Grant and Chris played as only they can. The audience was beaming. It’s seems we love their complete ambivalence to order and structure. It’s magic.

Then I’ve lost it after that. I blame Noel, because I always do and he knows it. I know Leynie and I played with RobRoy©, Noel got up as only he can, didn’t Doug get involved again?, Then we finished with a lot of not finishing. But it was worth it because everyone is a star at YSATS, and you guys deserve the lifetime achievement award for making it all possible. I love playing the ham, but the pig would not have got to market without you two (and Uncle Rex, God love him)!

Special guest observer status belongs to every one of our dear audience. I have received some laudatory praises for our show over these last six weeks in particular. Well done you lovelies.

Anyway, Warty has become a bit of an enigma, Masa accompanied Melanie, Ali Troy turned up to generally give her love, Brad just started a sound engineer course and accompanied Madonna (good luck to you, Brad), Jason was here with Marti and they are funny dudes. Marti stole my pen and put it down her top and I told her I would come and get it and she said O.K. and , just then, Joe and RobRoy© were on their last song and no one was willing to go next, so I had to go. Ah well, Melanie is a dear girl, and I got my pen back… Jason was the one playing ashtrays rather well, I thought.

Lee, John the POM, Jonno the big dude with a big heart (who can also play piano accordion and should be taken to task on it; he’s a bit shy), To the Shannon Rose basketball team who beat their only real rivals in the competition 18-8 and will probably meet them in the final, to those we can’t recall but love, and those people we see just once but who still always leave with a smile on their face.

And of course, dear Pat and Enya; they are the other stars of this whole equation. A query goes out to Dave, who is lovely bloke, was a Shannon barman who has performed at YS, but now seems to lounge around the pool tables with his friends, What gives? How can I get some of that action?

As I said, it’s something special, fellow Thetan YourSpacians.

Cadet Thetan Mcreed.

P.S. ...and we can’t forget Robert, who accompanied Raija. He is a songwriter himself, and we encouraged him to come back with his own stuff. I hope he does because he strikes me as brilliant...