Listening to: Live on Earth – The Cat Empire
This is what I really want to blog about – not sucky computers that don’t work! I’ve been trying to blog this since Friday 13th. Could the new/full moon have something to do with this? Lately, I’ve been a bit down and this past week have been inflicted with violent headaches that eventually turned to a migraine grrr…
It’s easy to feel glum and pissed off at the world when things like this are happening – but seeing The Cat Empire play LIVE for the 5th time since 2003 (they’ve been around for years playing the Melbourne circuit) but of course living in Brisbane I hadn’t the good fortune of knowing this until their first self titled album in 2003. Anyway, a damn good dose of the Cats…LIVE fixed me. Well almost. Yes, the violent headache turned to a migraine and it’s still blipping away at my temples as I write this. Yes, I still feel pissed at the world (well not always - just sometimes) but NOT so glum.
I’m a writer with a PASSION to write, a PASSION to put bum on seat and churn out story after story even though of late I’ve been struggling to find that magick – until Friday 13th. Who would’ve thought Black Friday at the Tivoli would deliver positive magick and happy vibes. I watched these guyz. I drank them up, their music, their energy (Harry knows how to raise the energy) he’s a natural born chanter :)
Most of all I witnessed their PASSION as I’ve done so many times before. The Cat Empire literally glow on stage. They have oodles of PASSION in what they do and it shows one thousand fold. This is what I learned as I danced and sang in my tiny spot of the otherworldly charming venue: Write, dance, sing, whatever – but most of all LIVE WITH PASSION! for living with PASSION ignites the soul.
Put simply: Life without PASSION is no life at all!!
Rock on!
Click here to watch 'Two Shoes' - a fabulous black and white clip filmed in Cuba 2006.
On Passion - here, here!
ReplyDeleteThe Cat Empire are one of the few groups I use to write to. They are also one of those groups that if I'm feeling blah/apathetic/hindered in some way, plug in to their sound & I'm writing, (or at least getting creatively motivated) fairly sooner after!
Glad you got to see them live. They are definitely one of the (very) few groups I'd try & organise myelf to go see!
Bugger about the migraine! They totally suck (& hurt). Dammit, if I wanted a hangover that lasted days I'd get drunk - not have a migraine!!!
Yes, everytime I see them I get something new and always, always inspired :) And my sentiments exactly, if I'm gonna have a damn pain in the head for so long - let it be a hang-over, at least I enjoyed myself at some point!
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