Perfect Match

Saturday 24th June was a good night for Groove Temple. The boys and entourage kicked off the night attending a birthday bash, in the Shellharbour Workers Club Chinese Restaurant before playing. Meanwhile, Quini and Gazz warmed up the crowd to puuuurrrfffection during dinner and the chef cooked up a storm for the guys, who were glowing by the time they reached the stage. The Chilli beef was to blame.

Happy Birthday to Liam (so young, so innocent) from Dr K and the rest of Groove Temple, family, friends, flatmates, entourage and other hangers on.

Groove Temple have always thought of themselves as a dance band and the crowd at Shellharbour Workers Club have always thought of themselves as party animals. A perfect match by any standard. So the love affair continued on Saturday 24th June when the band brought some sure fire dance floor grooves to bear on a more than willing crowd. They took no prisoners. There were some pretty serious dancers on the floor on Saturday with some doing impressions of dancing chickens whilst others seemed to be imitating cockroaches on a frying pan. The ones wriggling on the floor may have been doing "the worm" or just tripped over and were trying to get up. Nobody really knows.

Ang, Dr K and Red were totally chuffed to meet up with local musos and crew also working at Shelly's on the night, Wayne B, Cathie, Gazz Bromley, Dave Quini, Kathie and Cathy. (The spelling of some "Kathy's" may have been changed to protect the illiterate -sorry about that.)

Groove Temple are looking forward to rocking the Dandaloo Hotel at Kanahooka on Friday 30th June (Accountant's New Years Eve) and trying out a new venue for the band on Sat 1st July at Greenwell Point Bowling Club. If there's a spark of a party, Groove Temple will throw fuel on it. Guaranteed.

World Fuel Crisis

Groove Temple blasted away some cobwebs in the South Coast resort town of Huskisson on Friday 9th June and made the huge crowd at the Husky Pub very happy. Despite cold, wet weather, the venue was very busy and the fact that hip shaking and grooving kept people warm was a delight for both the band and the punters alike. The boys left the venue to the sounds of "...we want more, we want more..." A great way to finish the night.

The Grand Hotel at Kiama was also a great night, with tourists and locals mixing it and pressing the flesh and keeping warm in a tremedous display of free love, the likes of which could solve the world energy crisis if harnessed correctly. The band believes there is still an afterglow in the vicinity of the dance floor at the Grand and if you walk past that dance floor now you can still feel some residual heat. Pub management are currently working feverishly to jury rig a generator to try and save on electricity bills.

The weekend of the 17th and 18th July is an off weekend for the boys as they are currently involved with some top secret recording. They won't tell anyone what they're doing. (Unless they ask.)

Groove Temple will be back on board and off the streets again for Saturday 24th June at the Shellharbour Workers Club. They're trying to wear out the dance floor.

Podium anyone?

For a few of the more active lasses on the dance floor at Goulburn Workers, the only thing missing was a podium. Groove Temple was more than willing to accommodate the eager crowds need more songs to groove to, even inspiring a few burly blokes to pull out classic dance moves such as the lawnmower, sprinkler and feeding the chooks. Thankfully no grass was cut nor animals harmed in the dance orgy that followed.

After such an experience the boys are amped to see what moves they can induce from the groovers at Husky on Friday and the Kiama Grand on Saturday.

See ya there.