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(27 June 2009)^{147 147.} Available at: https://thumped.com/bbs/threads/10th-box-social-mini-fest-saturday-27-of-june.73570/ [Accessed 2 March 2024]
It’s a beautiful sunny afternoon and Patrick Kelleher is standing next to the flowerbed crooning wistfully into a microphone, accompanied by a backing track of slightly kitsch drum machine and organ sounds. People are scattered throughout the house and along the lawn. There’s beer being served from a shed down the end of the garden. It’s the first set in a long day of music. Almost 12 hours later Gavin and I are playing in the front room. There’s space for a drumkit and amps in the bay window and somehow about 40 people have squeezed in, pressed right up against us. I’m surrounded by drums but Gavin is standing in the audience. The notion of a stage is dissolved as everyone moves together in joyous exuberance. People talk with us during the set; a cymbal gets dislodged and someone puts it back in place for me – it’s a conversation. As we play each song the room sways and heaves.