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Australia » stradbroke island some longboarding and the rest

Stradbroke Island some longboarding and the rest:

http://subaru.com.au/active/places-we-go/stradbroke-island

Enjoy.

Australia » switchfoot hello hurricane australian april tour 2010

SWITCHFOOT "HELLO HURRICANE" AUSTRALIAN APRIL TOUR 2010:

WED 21 - THE HI - FI BAR. BRISBANE THU 22 - THE BILLBOARD, MELBOURNE FRI 23 - THE FORUM, SYDNEY

Get your tickets from : http://www.redanttouring.com/current_tours_and_events_switchfoot.html

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SWITCHFOOT TOUR RELEASE: ?The voice of Switchfoot front man Jon Foreman does sound more than a little like Bono?s? ? PasteMagazine.com

?Switchfoot has much in common with arena-rocking peers like Coldplay and Snow Patrol.? ? SputnickMusic.com

?The San Diego band offers high-voltage buzz-saw riffs and irresistible melodic hooks? ? RollingStone.com ?The multi-platinum pop/rockers doing charity work with Bono, sound-tracking TV hot-tub scenes and surfing.? Music OMH

Ladies and Gentlemen, the wait is over, Switchfoot has added Australia to their world tour. The past few years have been somewhat of a coming-of-age story for San Diego quintet Switchfoot and as a happy ending to the tale, the band is heading to Australia to play their brand of familiar anthemic rock tunes that acknowledge life?s storms while managing to find an element of hope in them.

Whilst the boys have been closely compared to bands like Snow Patrol, their latest album Hello Hurricane, which was featured in USA Today?s Fall Pick for most awaited album, has a far more edgy vibe to it than their previous albums. Packed full of songs you want to die singing, Switchfoot are back with a fighting spirit while still retaining their moniker of hope and optimism.

Although Switchfoot have never fit any of the genre boxes, the band find that diversity is their strength and that they operate at their best during their infamous and energetic live shows. Expect a night of melodic crunch with densely layered sound featuring some electronic experimentation, often driven by heart-pumping guitar riffs , with a few softer ballads thrown in as well.

Watch: Dare You To Move http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYp9SHLQX0

Meant To Live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbwY9yDL8WQ

Mess of Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et1vriu29Qk

Links: www.redanttouring.com www.myspace.com/switchfoot www.switchfoot.com

Releases: New Way To Be Human (1999) Learning To Breathe (2000) The Beautiful Letdown (2003) Nothing Is Sound (2005) Oh Gravity! (2006) Hello Hurricane (2009)

Australia » the snowdropppers added onto the bluesfest 2010 line up

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Australia » the snowdropppers added onto the bluesfest 2010 line up

The Snowdroppers have been added to the 2010 Bluesfest Festival Line Up.

For more information visit www.myspace.com/snowdroppershttp://www.bluesfest.com.au/

DO THE STOMP WITH THEM AT THIS YEAR'S BLUESFEST FESTIVAL !!

Australia » munch your way around oz

Heed Chuthruafu's recommendations, I believe the boy can eatbig_smileYou ought see him with Subs!big_smile

Happy old fart!
Australia » munch your way around oz

any recs for WA guys?That pie shop at Dunsborough in WA is fantastic. The white paper bag even has a sick little surf map on the back of it! big_smile

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Australia » munch your way around oz

any recs for WA guys?

Australia » first os trip

Yep It was Neilsen Park, Dobroyd Bommie was another expedition but by tinnie.There's a couple likewise spots in Broken Bay, one featured in SW way back Goddard's wharf and others that may rate a mention later.Estuary surf, where the BS is BS and also bull shark.Still the ferry props were more dangerous than anything else I've had to worry about in surfing.

Happy old fart!
Australia » first os trip

Nice one Jaff, I love my Sydney Harbour surfing. Were you surfing the middle head bombie or outer Neilsen Park?

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Australia » first os trip

My first trip OSWe are on the wharf in the dark, keen and excited. travel to a new surf spot ( new to us) we had planned this for years. The ferry was due to leave port in the earliest dawn. The southern swell was raising crashing white plumes on the sheer cliffs at the ports entrance. The salt spray almost made the sun rise in the dark! Would the trip be postponed like the day before? No, we?re leaving,and as we move through the swell, boats coming in the opposite direction heading to shelter, are lost in the troughs moving at 20 second intervals through the heads from the open sea.The non surfing passengers turn all shades of green, and move to seek quiet refuge somewhere on board.Water crosses the deck to run out the down trough side of the ferry and into the darkening olive sea, diesel motors chug hard against the swell and a slight oil slick runs seaward with the deck wash. It?s rough enough that we begin to pack every thing except our boards in any waterproof or plastic wrap. We begin to plan from which lower deck door we will abandon the ferry and talk in hushed tones of how we will avoid the churning propellers, as we can hear them come free of the water and cavitate loudly each time the ferry rolls.From the bowels of the ferry, the heated diesel and rancid hot grease smell increases and the crew move about frantically looking slightly green themselves.We take note of where the life rafts ( supposedly gal iron covered balsa pontoons) none of this inflated modern stuff. What about the other passengers, the fat, the old, the children? How noble are we going to be or will we do every man for themselves?

To the western side of the ferry in the increasing light we can see a massive bombora breaking murderously close beneath high cliff and in a back bay we can see the breaks around the cove we left some time back, only to lose these sights as we descend into the great successive troughs.

Nearby a freighter moves out to the deep sea and as we ascend to each crest we look down onto its decks and see that no one is out on them, they would only be washed overboard . Eeriely enough when we pass its stern its home port is PUI KING, black humour can be found anywhere. We pass some time making bad puns about sea sickness and bodily functions good Aussie humour

We churn onwards, ferry and stomachs falling out of rythmn, muffled complaints or perhaps prayers can be heard from the other decks. The diesel smell is worse down here, but the rolling is less, which upsets your stomach more I wonder? Not a queasy question to ponder. More planning, we can see the back of the reef at our destination the net surrounding the bay and around that the wave we have come to ride.It?s obvious this ferry is not going to stop, but we sort of knew that. We put on our wetsuits (hypothermia) head to the lee side door to the outer deck, cross the deck and stand at the rail. The plan is to jump off together when the rail is down in the trough as the propellers are covered deeply. Wrapped clothes and gear under one arm board under the other. We all cheer and leap together and begin to execute part 2, PLF (paddle like funk)clothes tucked under our chests for the 200 yards to the break.

Faces immediately line the windows to see what these ?fools? have done, the ferry cannot come about against the swell and on the bridge we can see crew shaking their fists. Then they chug on away to the next stop.

The swell aids us as we move closer to our spot and we pick a jetty to come ashore.We activate part 3 of our plan. We bury our gear in the sand,(Cause we expect the police to arrive to investigate) paddle out and begin surfing.

The police arrive, cannot find the mystery surfers, and that evening knowing they would be watching the Manly Ferry back, we have a friend drive from Manly over the Harbour bridge to Nielson Park and take us home.

A genuine grommet adventure from the sixtiesbig_smile

Happy old fart!