Alford Gig - 2nd Oct 2004 - I

Alford Hotel – Saturday, 2 October 2004

Odd Sox played its first ever gig last Saturday night at the Alford, a farming hamlet lying roughly midway on the Kadina-Port Broughton Road in South Australia’s lower mid North region, just beyond the copper triangle at the top of the Yorke Peninsula. Twenty dusty miles from the coast at Tikara, Alford is a spot on a straight two lane highway where is collected a bowling club, church, primary school (soon to close), fire station, war memorial, tennis courts, deli and semi-permanent garage sales. It has an advertised population of sixty people. It also has a hotel, the present building dating from the early 20th century, situated on the South Western edge of the town on one of Alford’s half dozen or so streets. You can see the highway from its shady front verandah. Here we played our first gig as Odd Sox.

We are a five piece rock band, and were all members of ‘Requiem’, the predecessor band which floated around Adelaide for a while, playing about a gig a month for the last three years. You could say it was Odd Sox playing a requiem for Requiem. The gig itself was advertised as Requiem, but we knew the truth.