February 20th - Mystery Creek Winery Hamilton.

I woke up to the rain absolutely pelting the roof to my hotel room.

This was around 8am. Come 12:30pm nothing had changed and going by the weather update on t.v there looked to be no let up as the North Island was being hit by a weather bomb coming off the Tasman sea.

It wasn't cold, in fact it was hot which made things worse as it became humid and sticky.

It wasn't looking good for show day and we were all waiting on the 2pm call from tour management as to whether the show would be cancelled or at least postponed.

Frantic calls were going back and forth with one of the promoters ringing to ask Jason if we could play a show the night before his wedding in a couple of weeks.

I felt for the crew who had worked tirelessly to set up the huge stage as they were put on standby until further notice to start wiring the electrical gear.

We were told sound check at the very least was cancelled.

Some of us decided to go in to town for lunch where anxious locals were asking us for status updates that we couldn't give them.

Finally the call came at 2:30pm that the Met Service had predicted the rain to clear at 4pm and that show would go ahead starting an hour later than planned.

Huge marquees where bought in from Auckland and Straw was laid down to soak up excess water.

Just as we took the stage the sun started to come out and the crowd that were expecting to be soaked through and to be dancing in mud were extra appreciative and I think the anxiousness of the day injected to show with a certain energy.

What a fantastic night!!

Cheers

Bobby