Sound and Vision (AM)

This is a story about the Two Bright Lakes rooftop show J and I went to last Saturday night.
Remember last Saturday? It looked a lot like this:

All day it rained.  It was the kind of rain that drives people indoors. People are right to stay indoors in that kind of rain. Even ducks would be right to stay indoors in that kind of rain. But you know how it is when you're planning to go to something, and you know that thing will be really fun and even though you kind of want to stay warm and dry at home you also want to make sure that you are not turning in to a real pussy, so you go. It was kind of like that.

Plus, Biz, beloved member of the Crab community, is also a founding member of Two Bright Lakes. The thing Biz knows above all the other things is sound and vision. And don't you think that sound + vision + rooftop + rainstorm of biblical proportions = a wonderful night?
We thought so.




We met at Rue Bebelons for a drink  and a little text messaging first. The rain continued to fall outside but we were getting excited about the sound, and about the vision.  Russeth came to meet us, so we finished our drinks and headed out.

The show was on the Melbourne Central Rooftop. But who has ever heard of such a thing? No one, that's who. We thought it would take us ages to find it, but of course TBL are helpful guys and it was really well signed.


Excitement hit fever pitch when we found the door and got carded!Yesss!

The entrance was hung with beautiful strings of leaves that we wove our way through on our way out to the rooftop. It was light and airy and we couldn't help but linger for a little while to frolic  amongst the leaves.








But the music and its promise of fun times was calling to us. We soon joined the group of folks standing in the rain, listening to Lost Animal. 

Perhaps you can't get a sense of it from these pictures, but it was pretty great to be standing in a place I've never been, looking at a view of Melbourne I'd never seen and listening to some music in the rain. The rooftop space actually felt really cosy, and despite the persistent rain, in my famous blue yellow raincoat, nothing was getting in.

Of course, it wasn't long before we felt like a snack. We are, after all, us.

TBL thought of that too, and there was a delightful young man on hand to ply us with burritos and/or grande melt (which are slightly bigger burritos that you throw in the sandwich press for a while). Obviously we chose the grande melt.







We stood by the wall, ate our grande melts and listened to the music. Darkness was falling, and it wouldn't be long before standing around would have to give way to a little boogie.

But readers, remember what we told you about Biz's specialties? Sound AND vision. As darkness fell, the light show began and it was then the wonderment really took over. I don't want to say too much, because in this afternoon's post, J is going to tell you what we saw.
Let me just leave you with this picture of rain and paper planes, and be sure to come back to Miss Soft Crab in the PM,  when our story continues.