Shop Front Blues

Groove Temple hit the South Coast of New South Wales for the October long weekend, playing Moruya on the Friday night and Narooma on the Saturday.

The boys kicked off the weekend waking up the Moruya Golf Club, playing to a small but appreciative audience. "Go the limbo!!" The locals seem to have a good sense of humour and did their best to keep the band entertained. They have a huge dance floor and most of it was used up at some stage, mostly with feet, but at times with other body parts.

Narooma was a horse of a different colour altogether. The local blues festival managed to attract huge crowds and many overloaded blues fans needed to escape the festival hungry for something different. Groove Temple served up plenty of rock, groove and dance floor pumping tunes. It did the job. O'briens was rocking!

The boys were in for a surprise with their accomodation. They were booked into a local motel as usual, but got bumped by accident. So the manager set the band up on mattresses on the floor in a property owned by his family. This was a recently vacated shop front office space for a nursing care group. Yes. On the main street of town. Comfortable but bizzare. No complaints from the boys, all three slept like nursed babies.

G.T. head off to the Riverina region again on the weekend and will load up the rickshaw (cheaper fuel bills) to play the Dandaloo Hotel Dapto on Thursday 6th October to warm up, then to Tumut at the Star Hotel on Friday and Saturday night. The locals are always good value. "Mmmmmmmmmmmm fried chicken and beer!!!"

Groove Temple would like to apologise in advance for any trouble they may cause on the weekend.