No lectures meant a late start and a lie-in, which was great.

We walked in this morning, mingling with the grand final crowd in the beautiful weather. Emma came along to have a look around and then it was time to get the track ready.

The live room was busy, so I took an MPC and made some beats (which subsequently got deleted by accident...) for a while. Soon enough it was time to go into the room and it was pretty exciting. Richard sat down with his drumkit and laid out a brilliant hi-hat line which needed no editing. Mixed the track down and all was good.

And then it was time for my gig. It was fun! I played for about an hour and a quarter, I got to play out the track which did not clear the dancefloor and then as I played my last track (Solitary Flight), the sound system blew up. A suitable end, I feel.

We kicked on to the other Academy gig where Tor was bloody mindblowing and Florian went on afterwards playing some hoopy shit. Home to bed at 4.

I'm actually writing this on Sunday evening - we had no school today, and went instead on a field trip to Healesville where there's a native amimal sanctuary. It was good to see everyone's reactions to the various animals, and I got to finally see a platypus.

Right now, I'm totally rooted and exhausted and uninspired. There's a couple of shows tonight - I don't think I'll be making it to the Espy for Amir's show, but Clara and Maxime are playing down at Honkytonks. Truth be told, I'm not entirely sure I'll even get there. I think some sleep is needed.