The Adventure of Liz and Liv Part One - Final Chapter
Monday 12 March 2007 - 3pm
On the bus, on the way back from Port Fairy Folk Festival. 8 of us this time - Kate, Keir, Scotty, Sallie, Steve, Clare, Liz and Liv. 5 in the band, and 3 merch bitches. yup, 3. excessive? well, we sold 300 cds after the first gig...
madness. doing merch in an environment like this is like being encompassed in a little love circle, with everyone raving about how wonderful everything is. on the other hand, it's total chaos.
this year, we all stayed in a house together (8 people, 1 bathroom...) which was awesome - well, except for the fact that it was a million miles out of town, but we had our own little free taxi service. performers' perks.
this trip was a bit of a last blast for us, because liz moves to the northern territory in a couple of days, and liv will be staying at ocean shores till the end of june, then who knows?!
there's a poor unfortunate creature at the front of the bus with motion sickness, so we've had to stop for her to throw up. that would suck. luckily for all, keir came to the rescue with wet ones, and saved the day, in his usual understated style.
the lowlight of this year's festival was the food - appalling! ichy. i didn't seem to matter where we ate, it all seemed a bit tasteless - except for the fruit stand, which was liv's saviour.
this weekend we launched frankie walnut's debut ep - highly recommended, check kate's site or transport's site (links on left). "where have i been all your life" is an absolute cracker - a definite festival highlight was watching the sound crews and stage managers pissing themselves to that.
here's a tast little tidbit:
"i just won $15 on keno
wouldn't it be nice
it would really cap the evening off
if i could get into your tights"
given the lack of available steak at the fest, liz had to console herself by drinking guiness - purely for the medicinal properties, of course. liv also realised that a fruit diet is sadly lacking in iron, and also deigned to have a few pints during the festival. luckily it was on tap, which always adds to the flavour. there's only one bar at the festival, but it's massive, and we mean HUGE! it's bigger than most of the stages.
we met some amazing people there - you know who you are - and getting to hang out with clare after such a long time was a real treat. frankly, not counting the food, the weekend was faultless.
but all that aside, what else has been happening in the world of liz and liv?
liz recently finished her work in maleny, and has been celebrating her unemployment ever since. she's about to embark on a 10 day road trip from the glasshouse mountains to darwin in her 1992 holden vp commodore (bommodore) with her newly returned home sister (as regular readers know, sarah has been in england - check the links for her exploits).
liz will be working until the end of 2007 in Jabiru, hopefully as a tour guide. expect to see liz's triumphant return to woodford 2007 - 08.
liv will be working in lismore, and house sitting for her family until the end of june, then who knows? liv is thoroughly enjoying not knowing, and is convinced the right path will show itself in the near future. she suspects it may already be starting to...
we're now flying back to brisbane. the festival has drawn to an end.
it seems an impossible task to try to summarise the experiences of the last 15 months, so we're just not even going to try, except to say we are both completely different people at the end of this journey than at the beginning. hell, we even look totally different, as liv has just noticed, reading back through the blog.
this will be the final entry in this part of the adventures of liz and liv, but never fear! we both intend to continue posting from out different locations, to keep our fans up-to-date with our extravanagt, exceptional, excruciating, excellent adventures. we love you one and all, and than you for the joy you've brought to us.
In future adventures:
* liz and liv become professional certified merch bitches! (actually that's true)
* liv does a Cert I in Communication at Batman TAFE (seriously considering it)
* liz becomes a professional food taster (she may as well be making money out of it)
* liz and liv's photos go international! (also true - see transport promo shots)
* liv's hobbit fetish blossoms into a full-blown obsession, and she moves to new zealand
* liz buys a combi van, fills it with paints, and drives around tasmania teaching underpriveleged children to fingerpaint
* liz and liv hire an articulated vehicle for the next leg of their journey - either that or buy the yellow school bus and fit it out with a brown couch, microwave and spa bath!
* liv takes a vow of silence
* liz also takes a vow of silence, but only lasts a few hours, till she goes to a cafe, sees someone with food, and asks if she can have a bite
* liv, inspired by kate miller-heidke, ange gabrielle, and melanie adams begins studying opera, then realises she accidentally broke her silence vow, and gives up on both
* transport, emma dean, me, the barleyshakes and kate miller-heidke all become ridiculously world famous and take liz and liv on extensive international tours
* tiaras reappear on the catwalks - liz and liv are universally renowned as the instigators of this trend
* liz and liv stop talking bollocks (yeah right..)
The flight is nearly over. the champagne has run dry (and gone to our heads). the 15 month festival has come to an end, and we are ready to face a new beginning.
we look forward to sharing it with you all.
with all the love we can possibly give (which is a whole lotta love...)
Liz and Liv
Kisses!