1. Tomor­row night [Friday]: Blue King Brown @ the Evelyn, Brun­swick St, Fitzroy. Don’t know when it starts exactly but if people would like to meet me there around 9, I reckon that’d be nifty. I have no idea if there’s a cover charge, but it can’t be much, can it? Never heard of them? Funky Mel­bourne-based guitar and per­cus­sion group with Blues influ­ence and polit­ical lyrics. Line-up includes Nat­alie and Carlo from Skin, the per­cus­sion group.

2. Sunday, it seems I have been a silly monkey and am booked in to volun­teer all day on the regis­tra­tion desk at the Aus­tralian Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Con­fer­ence… at the same time as the Mid­summa Car­ni­val. Thank­fully, the con­fer­ence is at the Hilton on Wel­ling­ton Parade and the Car­ni­val is at Treas­ury Gar­dens, so I’ll be duck­ing down there during my lunch break and prob­ably before and after. Anyone who wants to catch up, respond here or text me on the day.