Greazefest Kustom Kulture Festival 2010. The Night Gigs!

So as my last post entailed, Brisbane's own annual Greazefest took place last weekend. I think I've only just recovered. Too little sleep and lots of party party makes Drea a bit of a zombie for the rest of the week. Anyhow I'll just go over the night gigs in this entry otherwise I'll probably make blogger.com's head asplode trying to cram so much in.

I'll start off with WHAT A HOOT! My initial uncertain feelings about the festival changing to a new venue were quickly quashed once I realised how much nicer it was to have sufficient space to move around. Also, because the night gigs were now in an outdoor covered area I didn't sweat all my make-up off. That's always a plus.

On Friday I was furiously painting for the art show on Sunday. No surprises there. So on both nights I didn't allow myself time to do anything decent with my hair. I'd throw my brushes down and got ready in a whirlwind.


Myself, Kurt and Kirsten a.k.a Beanie



Matt with Bella in her gorgeous Holly Golightly inspired outfit.


With the gorgeous Bianca! And er ... Chucky.

The Line up for Friday night was:

• The Flattrackers


• Doug Wilshire & The Tailspinners


• Bertie Page performing burlesque


• The Detonators


• The Go Go Haunters

The Detonators, from afar.

At the beginning of the night I was too busy socialising and didn't see a whole lot of the first two bands. However the snippets that I saw of Flattrackers and Doug Wilshire were as good as they always are. Bertie Page did a striptease in a giant milkshake a la Dita Von Teese. The Detonators were amazing! I wish they came to Brisbane more often. Last on for the night was the Go Go Haunters. Their post punk/ garage/ horror sound was in stark contrast to all the other bands of the night, a good thing considering the psychobilly band presence last Greazefest was sorely missed due to the Sinner's Ball being axed. The punks and rockers were out in force busting their moves in front of the stage. By that stage of the night I was too pooped to dance, so I contented myself to standing behind the dance floor and watching.


Meanwhile the cheesy 'shirts and skirts' rock and rollers seemed rather daunted by all the noise and were making to leave. I couldn't help but smirk into my cardigan. Good riddance! I must tell you all about the great divide concerning kustom kulture, rockabilly and 'the rock and rollers' but I shall leave that story for another day.


The gents


The Line up for Friday night was:

• The ReChords


• Big Kitty & The Scaredy Cats


• La Viola Vixen performing burlesque


• Benny &
  The Fly-by-Niters


• Deke Dickerson
  & The Ecco-Fonics


• Pat Capocci Combo

I went to bed at 2am on Friday night and woke up 7am Saturday morning to work on my painting. I was painting really furiously by this stage in order to finish it. At 7.30pm that night I finally threw the paint brushes down one last time and started getting ready for the gig. No time for the hot rollers I wanted to use. Oh well. By the time we rocked up at Rocklea we had already missed the ReChords and La Viola Vixen. Daaaarnit. However I was happy to be there to enjoy the rest of the gig. I really really dug Benny and the Fly-by-Niters. The saxophone is truly a sexy instrument and more bands should have one!


Myself, Lawrie and Laura


Yeeeaaah!

Deke Dickerson put on an extremely entertaining show, but I must admit the dancing by his drummer 'Sugarballs' was the highlight of the night. He then stole the show with his own song ... about balls. Pat Capocci Combo rounded the night up. I always enjoy seeing Pat play. He is a truly talented musician and singer. That boy is going to go far.


Pat Capocci, once again from a fair way off. I didn't fancy pushing in front of all those people.


Rhea and Aleisha busting out some moves on the dance floor.


The beautiful Beanie, hot and sweaty from dancing. Three of us fanned her cool.

Stay tuned for my review of Sunday's Hot Rod Show. xo