photo-blog of last weekend, courtesy of my mobile phone camera.
we checked out some of the free entertainment that's in town as part of festival melbourne. first off there was talvin singh at fed square late on saturday night. this is what the sky looked like that evening:

before talvin, we had some food and then ice cream., and went for a wander to alexandria gardens. we caught the tail end of mariam makemba's set, then watched the fish from the opening ceremony on the yarra do their water-and-light spurting thing (also referred to by a friend's sister as 'the fish going off' - great choice of words, i thought). then we wandered back to fed square.

mark loves talvin's work, so he was quite excited at the prospect of seeing him live. the gig started out all chill and trancey, which was not what we were expecting, but nice nonetheless. we started out a fair way from the stage

but as the evening progressed we inched our way further and further in front

till there were about three people between us and the barriers.


then on sunday night the plan was to catch the world percussion gala at the myer music bowl. when we got there, there was a huge queue of people and a chill in the air; to tell you the truth i kinda started getting turned off at this point. we went in and met up with our mates, but i couldn't stay for the whole thing; we left after the dhol foundation was on at around 10.15 (they were the main reason i went). they were great, all showy and high energy - and up till that point, the only act that had people flocking to the front of stage to dance.