Red is not Red

Groove Temple experienced another massive weekend of gigs. But before we get down to the nitty gritty of what happened we must digress...

After stepping off the stage on Saturday night after a five hour marathon the guys were informed that Red was not Red. Huh?

Lead singer Ang reports: "I was just as surprised as the next guy, you think you know someone and 'bam' you just are not sure what is red, blue or green for that matter".

Red was forthright in defending who he is, he is Red, isn’t he? To his credit Red was not angered by the confrontation and was most forgiving of the pissed punter. Not to worry there was apparently a guy named Jesus who had a problem with the whole son of God thing...

Anyway back details about the gigs proper.

Friday night at Huskisson was HUGE. The crowd got right into it, and each other, from the very start and it was most difficult to concentrate on playing whilst loving couples engaged in simulated sex right in front of the band. Guitar player Dr. K reports: "It was really a special moment for me and brought me back to my days writing soundtracks for porn movies. Happy days..."

The guys had to work extra hard on Saturday night at Shelly's as the band booked before them failed to turn up. As a result they laid down five, fabulous and fantastic sets and then laid down quiet literally.

After such a raucous weekend the boys are ready for the peace and tranquillity of a South coast trip and are heading south to Moruya and Narooma for the weekend.

Dance 'til you fall over.

Groove Temple played the Bomaderry Pub on Friday 17th March and were again well received.

Lead singer Ang reports: "They just want to dance. We play dance music. There's not much more to it. The locals like to goose around and dance in front of the band. We encourage this. It's the simplest formula. No point embellishing on the obvious.

The new Groove Temple line up is cementing very well and it shows in our performance. I wont say "rock hard", as this would lead to unavoidable sexual innuendo....so moving on.....the biography for our newest member, Red is being posted shortly. Keep an eye out for it.

It really is all forward from here. The new material is really working well and we're steadily working on some original groove/funk tunes. I'm really happy to be doing some of our own stuff and we're promising to ourselves and to the fans to make it dance floor focussed material.

We played a function at the Wollongong Tennis Club on Saturday. Not a bad venue. We again proved that a tight, dance floor oriented set is a sure fire crowd pleaser. Our last set went for 80 minutes. Debbie Clifford celebrated a milestone event in her life and Debbie and friends partied on like it was an 18th birthday party. A few people fell over. Or maybe it was the same guy falling over repeatedly? Some people are lucky enough to remain teenagers all their lives. A great night with a truly champagne vibe for the whole event.....and Yes, the food was sensational"

Groove Temple will be at Husky pub on Friday 24th March with their irresistable repertoire and then on to Shellharbour Workers Club on Saturday 25th. See you on the dance floor! Careful you don't fall over.

The Greek Connection.

Groove Temple rocked the Sussex Inlet Tavern on Saturday night and met with the Greek Connection. As soon as they arrived, the friendly local staff were into it, claiming they could help with the show and one of the kitchen staff very kindly offered the services of one of his fellow staff members as a stripper to accompany the show for the evening. How thoughtful of him.

It was decided however that the gracious offer would be politely declined on the basis that the lady in question did not rehearse with the band and was thus disqualified from performing. This is actually a band rule...As of Saturday 11 March 2006. (Phew!! just got out of that one guys.....Groove Temple doesn't actually rehearse, well not in the traditional sense. Instead they use a form of "virtual rehearsing" with midi files and MP3's.)

Cheers from Groove Temple to all the staff at the Sussex Inlet Tavern. See you again soon.

Too many beautiful women is not enough......Cocoa.

Groove Temple gigged the Ocean Beach Hotel at Shellharbour on Friday 3rd March and were distracted to say the least. It was indeed a wild night at the Ocean Beach, and Groove Temple were grateful to be able to play to such a huge crowd. They were even more grateful to see the dancefloor literally packed with gorgeous women.

Lead singer Ang confesses: "It is so hard to concentrate and to be honest, the smile on my face was probably part leer. It's really tough up there and if we don't do it, somebody else would. Some of my mates were watching up the back of the room and I could see they were gorging on the eye candy. So I couldn't help laughing at them too."

"......This is such a great time of year, still warm enough to get around at night in beach wear and not hot enough to make dancing a sweat bath...."

Up on stage however, Groove Temple were putting in some hard yards and encouragement from the audience pushed them even harder. The sweat was flying.

"A strange thing occurred to me with the Ocean Beach crowd: When we play classic dance rock, certain people flock to the dance floor. Then we'd mix in some classic funk and they would pretty much leave the floor, only to be replaced by a different group of dancers. Perhaps this means they are a more "discerning" crowd? By the last set though, the whole place was dancing so it really didn't matter where they were."

We left them demanding more and more and more, but management switched the house the lights on and were giving us the evil eye, so we all went home to a nice cup of tea instead.

"Not me man, I had cocoa"....Nice one Ang.