Wow tonight was an incredible night. It just seems like it keeps getting better! And not just The Flaming Galahs. There have been many other great artists performing recently. First time performers at Quantum Lounge tonight included: Sarah Aubrey and the Audio Visual Club, Dax (see http://daxton.com.au), solo performer Marianne, lead singer Chris from Lunar Bug, and a couple of drunk scottish girls in the audience! Regular performers who appeared tonight included: The Flaming Galahs (Hal & Martin only - David not present due to play rehearsals) Rex Havoc (who performed some ) and Leyne.

There was an air of excitment as Sarah and her band took to the stage. While Sarah delivered an impressive performance on lead vocals and acoustic guitar, she was ably supported by drums, double bass, and backing vocals. The sight and sound of a real live double bass always inspires one, and tonight was no exception. Marriane, the girl who came from nowhere, and floated onto the QL stage, appeared next. She performed some meandering, poetic and soulfull songs sitting down solo with vocal and guitar. Many agree that Dax really stole the show ! He performed solo for about 5 tunes (guitar and vocals), each of which was a rousing polished performance featuring some well tuned and lively vocals to accompany some obviously well rehearsed songs. He also has a CD available featuring some of the songs performed tonight.

Finally, The Flaming Galahs took to the stage at about 10:30pm - a late start for us. But by this time the sound was all set up nicely and all was running well. In fact tonight was the smoothest running in the sound engineering department so far ever, I think! We were down a man as David was busy rehearsing for the upcoming version of the play named "Cosi" to be performed at the Newtown Theatre, starting in 10 days or less ! Meanwhile Martin, who has been away all week, returned just in time to attend tonight (and yesterdays reheasal). Performance wise, tonight was best ever in many departments. Most notable was the inclusion of some funky accompaniments by Martin in various songs. We performed "Girl From The Country","Darkness","Sleep Walking","Song For Big","Infinity","Venus". Also I think I raised the energy output level very well for the first 3 songs before I tired out a bit I think.

Ivan turned up later in the evening and told us about the run in he'd had with Chris the manager the last time after I left him DJing for the hairy bears set. Apparently there was a duel between Ivans spun tunes and the house PA system which resulted in him being eventually escorted out. Later he put his side to a higher authority, and we haven't seen Chris since. Ivan sayed he was not feeling too positive about the Quantum Lounge at the moment. He also sayed that he wanted to encourage The Flaming Galahs to all stick together into the future, and to keep on developing, and that we were the reason he'd been inspired about QL in the past, and that he could help us with euipment if that would help us. Wow - what a compliement. Now we must go on ... whatever happens ! All for now, Hal.