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Nov 06, 2007 at 01:43 PM |
I'm on the road with Jigzag at the time of these words & it's been a really wonderful tour. I really mean that- full of wonder. To think that the three of us started busking tunes in the central tunnel of an afternoon & playing Van Morrison songs in Irish pubs throughout the weekend. They were mostly four hour gigs back in the days when people smoked cigarettes & talked over a lot of what we played. It was really hard work but we were bursting with energy & smiling at each other and new ideas & songs were taking shape in our heads. I've been thinking of those long rehearsals we had fuelled by spicy chai & Caroline's stir-fry (choking on the pungent aroma of fried chillies). The tour has been a time of reflection to appreciate the good changes (audiences listening, laughing, dancing, no cigarettes, no Van Morrison!) & also the things that are the same today as they were ten years ago (smiles across the stage, Greg's powerhouse rhythm, Caroline's endlessly angelic improvisations & rehearsals with chai & stir-fry!). Audiences have enjoyed looking at our Anniversary photo album & hearing stories of our journeys & the birth of songs old & new.
This weekend is last chance to be part of the tour as we complete the circle back in Sydney where it all started. For all of you in the Blue Mountains come to the Clarendon on Thursday for the first live DVD filming show, Central Coasters can reminisce with us about the old days at the Star Hotel at Morriset Tennis Club on Friday (& help me celebrate my birthday!!), Wollongong folks can come up for an afternoon picnic at Stanwell Park Saturday afternoon, & Sydney folk- please come & make lots of noise for the cameras filming our 10th Anniversary DVD at the Bald Faced Stag.
See you there!
~liz
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Oct 09, 2007 at 06:13 PM |
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Yes- it's our Tenth Birthday & we want presents. Just download the outlined tour poster on the gallery page & colour it in for our birthday. You can either send it to us: Jigzag PO Box 301 Croydon Park NSW 2133, or bring it along to one of our shows. Remember to let us know if you are a junior (under 12) or a senior competitor. We'll announce the jnr/snr winners at the end of the tour & you could earn yourself a prize pack.
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Aug 07, 2007 at 03:41 PM |
Ten years of Jigzag
Never will the 'zag rest on any kind of laurel type arrangement! Only just having finished finished touring our 4th album "In the Middle" it's time for a new Jig-celebration. This time it's our Tenth Birthday. That means we've been bringing audible sunshine around the country & beyond for a massive decade. |
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Jun 23, 2007 at 07:26 PM |
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Well it's been an oft interrupted but really wonderful journey launching our new album. We are almost out of the first pressing & were featured on Radio National only last week, not to mention a lovely article in this month's editon of Trad & Now. So Victorians- now it's your turn to come & share some music with us at the East Brunswick Club Thurs (June 28) or The Palais (June 29 Hepburn Springs). These are the last gigs before we return to our respective interstate homes to prepare for the 10th Anniversary celebrations later on this year. Stay tuned, kids... |
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May 10, 2007 at 11:01 AM |
...what an awesome weekend we've just had! It's hard to know where to start.
Swims down at the creek where i still giggle at the memory of Fred striking a serious pose atop Elephant Rock with the blue flap of his old fashioned speedos waving gently in the breeze, saturday night's concert to a packed dance floor who sang & danced & smiled in the reflected light from the wharf stage, sunday night's home cooked Chai House lasagne consumed on the hillside backstage while Kate & Ruth delivered a gorgeous version of Dylan's Spanish Boots, too much to recall here...
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