Transit of Venus

It’s starting to really dawn on me that I won’t be in New Zealand for much longer.  Well, unless I forget to pay my car registration fines before I leave and get arrested at the airport… It could happen, can someone remind me to call them in the morning?

I remember blogging after the EP release  in May that it seemed like the end of an era.  I was reminded of this watching Friends tonight. Man I love that show, doesn’t matter how many times I’ve seen it I still love it hehe.  So yeah, there was the whole big EP recording era, which if you include all the stuff I recorded and scrapped it goes back as far as 2005.  Look at the “member since” date on the ToV myspace  31/08/2005.   Ages ago.  But now I feel like the end of another story is approaching.  There was the bedroom recording era, which ended with the release of our EP, and then there was the short lived  ToV as a live band era, which I think will come to a finish with this last show.

Honestly I don’t know what will happen with ToV when I’m gone.   I have toyed with the idea of course, of firing everyone before I leave and getting new members in Malaysia.  I had thought about forcibly kidnapping Tory and taking him with me.  I have considered the possibility of retiring ToV back to a recording project, maybe even a long distance online recording project.  Or just dropping it all together.  I don’t know.  At this point I guess it doesn’t really matter. What is important right now is making our last show the best ever! We’ve talked about playing through a bunch of the old stuff at the Nosferatu show after we’ve screened the movie, we’ve talked guest members, ex-members and nostalgia.  Again I don’t know exactly what will eventuate, all I know is that I’ve worked really hard on Nosferatu and it’s gonna be both awesome and a little sad.  Awesome because I think it’s some of the most interesting stuff I’ve ever written, at least for me from a musical perspective.  And sad because I am sad to be leaving Auckland.  I’ve lived here just over five years and I’ve grown to love this city more than anywhere else I’ve lived before.  And not just this city but of course the people in it, the people are the ones who make this city what it is.  I’m gonna miss all the friends (and enemies!) who have made my life so entertaining here.

Sorry I’m rambling.  It’s because I’ve temporarily banned myself from twitter/facebook . I may yet have to ban myself from this blog! (p.s. if you’re reading this on facebook and rolling your eyes, it’s an automated thing that puts it on there from my website duh!)

Back to the piano now,

<3 Kristie xxx

p.s. Because there’s still some confusion I’m confirming that Nosferatu is on Thursday November 26th

Oh that’s right, we even have a proper written-by-someone-who-doesn’t-ramble press release for it now.  Here ya go…