Normally I go to great lengths to avoid people standing on streets brandishing brochures, though at the time I was madly updating Twitter from my phone and didn’t see this particular man until he was talking to me.
The man started telling me about how the Deep Blue Orchestra was appearing at the Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre. Only to hear him tell it, it wasn’t so much a concert but a coming together of all the generations so we could ‘get along.’ I began to suspect that the reason he had singled me out was the black long sleeved Foo Fighters tshirt I was wearing. (Clearly I was one of those rouge antisocial young people who weren’t arriving at such community events to sing Kum Ba Ya and briefly take a reprieve from this seemingly militant generational gap conflict.)
He talked about their repetoire for a time and then he said, “Some of the musicians are playing at the cafe on the corner. You should duck in and have a listen to see what they’re like.”
I thanked him and continued walking up the street, fully intending to visit this cafe on the corner.
Only, as I walked I had a moment of realisation. There are no cafes on corners in this town. No, really. There are lots of cafes but they’re all in the middle of streets or within malls and shopping centres.
I went past six cafes within the CBD just in case it happened to be one of those… but to no avail.
I most likely won’t be in attendance at the Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre show tonight, however if you’re interested Deep Blue Orchestra will be appearing at various venues around Australia for the next couple of months. More information is available from their website.
Does this blog entry count towards my community involvement credits do you suppose?
