The morning after an Australian world cup game is not pretty. It's actually funny how much I sound like a bogan looking through these blogs... I actually have never watched soccer (or football) ever before in my life, but it's really easy to throw yourself into anything that allows you to be stupidly over patriotic when you've been away from home for 5 months... not to mention the 4 years that I've been tripping around the globe for 90% of the time...
Anyway, it was a great night - our mate Sean flew in to join in on the festivities and I (being very well behaved) crashed out while the rest of the crew kept the party alive in our living room.
Today it's far to hot to do anything. It's even to hot to go sailing, so again I'm nerding out on the computer while everyone else is dregging around listening to music and talking about nothing at all.
I'm starting to work my list of things that I have learnt in from my time in Dubai. Here's a couple off the top of my head:
1. Round Table Pizza is the best pizza on the planet
2. Dont, under any circumstances, give your phone number to random arabic men... they WILL call... again and again and again.
3. ummm... I am blank, my head is not working very well today...
like I said, stay tuned... it'll get better.
Anyway, here's some pics from last night.

Rock'n'Roll Xx

Well, I'm very happy to be counting down the days til we head to the states. We play our last Dubai gig at Aussie Legends on the 6th of July and then catch the first flight to JFK (possibly via London to exchange hugs with loved ones) and the fun really begins!!!! Still tossing up a quick cruise to hang with my good mate Baboon in the caribbean, dependant on funds... but would be lots of fun, and whats money anyway? Ha!
So we've been running around booking flights, adjusting timetables and of course watching ridiculous amounts of football. We watched the Australia/Japan game last night suitably decked out in aussie flag parafanalia and sreamed along with the best of them when we scored. Our gig times have all been adjusted to suit the World Cup so we've been playing in between games music which is kinda odd but a lot of fun.
Today we spent the morning in Diera getting some stuff from the music shops and eating awesome indian curries and then somehow found oursleves in a bizzare little beauty salon pricing manicures and henna designs. Kristy decided to go all out for the Morrocan Bath... now I've experienced a Turkish Scrub in Marmaris, which was interesting to say the least but I think Gentz outdid me on this one. Her treatment was executed by a large Indian lady who told Kristy to remove all her clothes and then did the same... so there's Gentz naked in a steam room being scrubbed down by a large naked Indian lady who left no surfaced un-exfoliated... very amusing. I'm booked in for one tomorrow! Anyway, much love to all, I'm off to watch the Brazil game!
L Xx

Still in Dubai...

Hi friends, well Im slowly getting more and more web savy so I've decided to try this whole blogging thing... So we're still in Dubai, but getting ready to head off to the states in July. Our last few weeks have been interesting, we've spent loads of time in the studio, loads of time in our apartment geeking out on the computer, a fair whack of time playing gigs and the rest of the time has been spent making unanswered calls to engineers, producers and financers... sounds like fun huh? It's hard to get things done in this country, we've learned that through experience! But we have been making the most of it here, Julz and I have been learning to sail and yesterday took a 49er out with our fearless coach Chris. It's a wild but very fun boat to sail, we had our first spinnaker lesson and our first capsize!
Anyway, I'm going to immerse myself in world cup fever and get back on the phone...
Much love,
L Xx