The Award Tour…Game on!

The Award Tour feat Gavin Crossley

Day 1:

Hellooooo nurse! It’s your favourite petty, angry asshole blogger here. In a much nicer and happier place from when we last communicated. I’ve fallen in love with a beautiful woman and unlike when I’ve got gooey about some girly, this is totally reciprocal. Why the fuck is this important? Because I’ll bring Renae up quite a bit during this 7 day blog so you may as well know about her before I begin. That and this blog will more than likely be MUCH nicer than usual.

Secondly this is unlike any other tour I’ve embarked on so far. The major difference…NO car. This is not a road trip. It’s more of a holiday than an adventure. From someone who works 6 days a week performing 4 separate jobs in 2 locations, I tell you I needed this holiday, badly!

Now to the trip itself… This trip much simpler than anything else I’ve taken on. It’s just 2 cities and 7 days. Unlike my 14 towns, 2 cities and a fuckload of drinking and trying to fuck anything that moves kind of tours. This is more about “chillin” and A Tribe Called Quest.

You on point Tip? All The Phife.

A Tribe Called Quest coming to Australia (my all time favourite group) was THE deciding factor in my decision to come to Sydney this time around. I certainly didn’t come here for the weather.

If you don’t know ‘The Tribe” are, look them up on Wikipedia and YouTube. I’ve been a fan of this Hip Hop crew since I was 14 years old and I heard the track “Find A Way”, I bought the ‘best of’ after I found out about them breaking up about a year before I got into them.

When I heard they were coming to Australia (a day I thought I’d never see), I had a near fit and decided this is when my holidays are going to be and centred around this concert, which is actually TODAY (11/08/10). I won’t be excited until the lights dim and Q-Tip, Phife and Muhammad jump onto the stage. Apparently it’ll be a show spanning their entire career so i’ll be pretty stoked this time tomorrow i’m sure.

For the record: Today is Day 2 of the “Award Tour”.

What of the next 5 days after that? That when this gets more bogan and blokey as I jump on a plane tomorrow and head to Melbourne for a weekend AFL Football and catching up with some old friends for a drink and a laugh. Once again in a relaxed manner, tonight will be the most I party this trip….hold up.

Flashback to the old Gav now…this chick in the booth next to me just piped with her Skype conversation.

“Heyyy you you doin’”.

Great, I’m up at 7am listening to some inane conversation next to me while I type. Actually this day has started in an annoying way. I was woken by the hypo Chinese guy in my room packing for the day at 6:30am EST. This guy was LOUD. Some fuckers have no sense of occasion.

Then as I’m nearly asleep again…the Old Italian guy opens the fucking curtains! I almost said ‘Hey fucker! Close them cunts!” Then I release he was NAKED!!!! So I just turned towards the wall, and tried to shake the image. Who the fuck sleeps naked in a room full of men? Creepy much? At least wear some boxers or something!!!

So a great fucking start with my crazy motivated Chinese mate and Naked Italian guy kind of forced my hand (probably the wrong term to use after talking about Naked Italian man) and I headed to the lounge area of this AMAZING hostel in Sydney to write this blog. I hope they both move on today. Actually I don’t. I need to get up around 8am tomorrow to be ready for my plane to Melbourne (so these two fuckwits are a great alarm clock minus the nudity)….I’ll sleep later I guess.

The inter-woven Love plot:

I wish Renae was here. First of all we would have got a double room together and this Nude and Chinese guy thing would have never happened and I may be still asleep. Glad I got a decent bed time last night.

I’m not pining for her or anything overly pathetic because it’s only been a day and I’ve been pretty busy with the flying and drinks with an old friend (she met me pretty much straight off the Airport Transfer Train) this first time I’ve really sat down on my own.

I told her I loved her for the first time yesterday, she said it back and we’re both super-cautious with our feelings so she meant it as much as I did. This thought will keep me warm at night the whole trip that she’s not only thinking of me but she actually cares. I’m not used to that.

I’ll call her after the show tonight with all that positive energy beaming off me from that A Tribe Called Quest show.

The plan for Day 2:

Today I will go for a quick walk around the city after peak hour and breakfast ($4 Pancakes downstairs…yum yum!). Then find some cheap boardies and use the pool and sauna here. Yes, a pool and sauna in a YHA…crazy huh?

Have a ‘Man Nap” get up, shower and then head to the show which starts at 6:30am for those who’ve forked out for the VIP tickets. Tonight should be fucking awesome so I’ll tell that story tomorrow until then I need to scrub my nuts and get me some Pancakes.

Much Love

Gav