I first heard this song through a friend of a friend

It was love at first listen

I have since downloaded the whole album from iTunes

And have proceeded to thrash the shit out of it

It is THE definition of awesome sauce – his voice, his lyrics, his melodies….all of it

I love that there is so much music out there that I have never heard of, that I get to find by complete happen chance  - then fall for it hard

In the fab words of the Aussie legend Molly Meldrum, DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR, and check out, “All I Ever Wanted” ….

Gimme more!

Here’s a preview of one of the tracks from the DVD

I get a lot of requests for this one, but I don’t do it live very often

It takes me to a bad place

Like, will never wear a bathing suit again if it means never having to wax down there again ’cause oh my God that shit hurts like a mofo and being a girl is kinda bullshit so why don’t we all go gorilla style for fuck’s sake – kinda bad place

Fuck that with a capital F

You’ll be able to order the DVD through the website SOON!

Gold medal right tharr!

Here’s a clip we filmed a few weeks ago on the Queensland tour

The new DVD, WHO DARES GRINS was actually filmed in South Africa

But we wanted to include the new single WAIT, on it too – especially as it continues to do so unbelievably well

So this clip is being added to the footage we have from South Africa

WHO DARES GRINS will be released this CHRISTMAS…..which is like, really fucking SOON….HUZZZAAAAH!!!

It’s my first attempt at a love song

And I think it shows a psycho softer side of me

Next release will be the LIVE DVD

Then new album!

CLICK HERE TO BUY ‘WAIT’ ON ITUNES!

CLICK HERE TO BUY ‘WAIT’ ON ITUNES!

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We arrived in Hakuba to meet our host for the week

This is Adrien

He’s an Aussie who’s lived in Japan for over 20 years

MateRock originally started out as a BIG birthday party he was throwing to celebrate his 50th

Then the devastating tsunami happened, affecting everything

He decided to go ahead with the party, but changed it to a fundraiser

With the goal of paying for the education of 20 children orphaned by the tsunami

And taking care of those kids financially for the next 10 years

Pretty cool, huh?

As well as Adrian, we got to meet a shitload of other people on our first night

Mum proved what a jet she is by remembering everyone’s names

While bimbo me continued all week calling everyone ‘matey’ & ‘dude’

This one (below) I will remember though

And not just because this was the beginning of a big old bromance for Dad

This is Dave Gleeson, from the Screaming Jets

He was in Hakuba to be the front man for the The Angels

How’s that for an inspired merging?

Love it!

We were all taken to a great little local restaurant

And even got to sit on the floor and use chopsticks

I made a vow to try all food that was put in front of me – even if it looked like octopus scrotums covered in jizz

Guess what?

ALL the food was amazing

Like, really really yummy

I don’t remember the names of anything though

And not just because I discovered Shochu (funny how I remember the name of that)

Schochu (pronounced show-chew) is a traditional Japanese alcoholic drink, like sake

But unlike sake, that you drink straight up

You drink schochu with a mixer

Like lemonade, or soda

The kicker?

No hangover!

I. Shit. You. Not.

If I can’t find it when I get back to Chicago

You can bet your arse I’ll be finding a way to import this Jesus juice

After our I-can’t-believe-I-ate-all-that-even-though-it-wasn’t-steak-and-veggies dinner

We headed back to the hotel

Where Dad & I got the guitars out and shocked the shit out of some foreigners that had never heard of us serenaded our new friends

A fabulous, fabulous, funny (it’s only day one & I’ve run out of descriptive words & I’m repeating myself) night

But wait, there’s more…. But not right now, ’cause I’ve got a plane to catch

Playing one of my favorite songs

We were lucky enough to have these guys, Mr Blotto, play this at our wedding

Love them

For Diamond x

But by God, if this girl doesn’t ooze talent

She’s been the soundtrack to every flight so far this tour

The real deal indeed

You might catch a glimpse of the top of your head in this

Or even recognise your giggle at some point

Here’s a live clip of one of the most popular songs I’ve ever written

I used to think it was us sheilas who loved it more

But the boys actually buy the album that this song is on, WAY more than the girls do

Probably as a gift for their wives or girlfriends

Add a box of chocolates to that

And you could be in for some seksi time fellas!

That I totally forgot to post about at the time

Which should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me

And knows how much I do not have my shit together

Anyhoo

Better later than never, right?

So back when it was my birthday on the Victorian tour

We started of the day with wonderful family friends

Wally & Rosemary

Who, for as long as I can remember, we have called

Miss Rosemary and Sir Walter Fat-fuck

I’m pretty sure Dad probably gave them their nick-names

(that’s them, in the back of this pic)

They were having a bit of a shindig at their house and invited us to come along

And what an amazing home they have

An outdoor grill that would make Diamond sulk for a year

Something that really made the day special for us

Was Dad getting to catch up with, and me getting to meet for the first time

Gerry

A friend of Dad’s for many, many years now

You may not recognise him from the photos but I’m pretty sure most of you would be familiar with his work (we’ll get to that later)

He’s a top bloke of the highest order

And his wife Pauline

Well, I’m pretty sure I’ve never met a more genuine, kind and fun lady

Love at first site for me

She was just brilliant

They even invited me to stay at their house whenever I am in the UK

Which might help if they actually adopted me my cause next time

.

Of course we got the guitar out

Just spreading the cultural enrichment….as we do

Some of the folks had not heard Dad’s stuff before

And none of them had heard of me at all

Always fun seeing people react to our music for the first time

The lovely Miss Rosemary even prepared a homemade pavlova that doubled as my birthday cake

But seeing I inhaled it before any pics were taken

Here’s what I would call my 2nd cake

The CAM-CAKE

A big ol’ door stopper sized slab of Camembert cheese

Yeah baby!

So indeed yes, it was a fabbo, FABBO day

I want to end this with some of my favorite songs from Gerry’s history making repertoire

This one gives me goosebumps

Probably his biggest hit (which he sang for us)

And my all-time favourite

Told you he is the shit!

All different

But all immacualte

FILLED with staff

That’s something that we see consistently backstage

Lots and LOTS of staff

For me to walk from backstage, out to the front, to see Mum at the merchandise desk

I would have people walking with me

Security don’t like you walking around by yourself

So at all times, there was at least 2 security guards with me

I’m sure this had NOTHING to do with them not trusting me

And the stolen hand towels incident from 2008

They WERE a gift, I swear

It felt a little weird being escorted everywhere

But it’s better than the alternative, right?

When we played the 2 Johannesburg shows

I was told that I had to have my own bodyguard

It sounded very unnecessary and completely weird

But those were the rules there

He was stationed outside my dressing room all night

I told him my real name was Whitney

And I’m pretty sure he loved hearing me belt out “I Will Always Love You” each night before the show

Warm ups ‘n shit

He has a beautiful African name that is crazy hard to pronounce

So I just called him Kevin

That’s Mr Costner to you