(thanks to Nikki Streep for photos during the set!)

 In calling this show 'The Felicia Mabuza Suttle Tribute' show, we caused some confusion - several people thought Felicia, an ex-talk show host, had passed away, and that we were paying tribute to her. This is understandable, as not many people have tribute shows done for them while they are alive. As far as we're aware, Felicia is still very much alive, but couldn't attend the show for various reasons. Mainly because no one invited her. Shame on us all.
 

Sound checks at the V&A Waterfront Amphitheater often involve having to disappoint a substantial crowd who are drawn to the sound testing, only to be told we're not actually playing a show until a bit later. Most of the kind people here stuck around till 5pm when we went on stage.

The Waterfront is one of the few places we've played that have any sort of backstage area. I define an acceptable band dressing room as somewhere with a mirror where you can leave your stuff without it getting nicked. Dyl took full advantage of the expansive mirror to style his manly mane.

Walking up a set of stairs and out into the bright light of the stage was a nice change from our usual entrance method of wandering over from a table near the bar and trying to get the sound engineer's attention so we can start.

Nothing like a little air punching to get rid of the pre-show nerves. I had my camera ready because I was convinced Rich would accidentally knock out Timmy backstage, resulting in: "Hi, we're The Brothers Streep. Does anyone in the crowd play drums?"
 

Our final moments before being called out to play. Note Tim P Streep's wonderful imitation of Michael Buble's 'I'm adjusting my tie" photo pose. Rich is so inspired he's going for it as well.

I'm disappointed to announce that while Dyl did seem to discover fire (on his fretboard) during a guitar solo, Richard remain firmly non-flammable the whole set. I also had no flashforward, which doesn't bode well for any shows after August.



 The V&A Amphitheater is a great venue to play - big stage, great sound gear, and we were assisted by four sound engineers and stage crew. Streep Luxury.

The crowd were responsive and seemed entertained by our set. The place filled up quickly once we started, and we were soon playing to a big audience. Plenty of people who were hearing Streep and our acoustic comedy for the first time, which is always great. You watch people move from thinking "Okay, here's another band who act like rock stars and demand to be taken very seriously", to thinking, "Hey, they've actually written a song about how annoying it is when someone takes more than ten items into the express checkout line at the shops".
 

I've always loved our song 'Tonight' (about getting married), but it was even better playing it to Simon's sister and her fiancee, who asked her to marry him last weekend. Congrats guys!!! You can see Simon's proud dad wearing the sunglasses in the top left. And to Simon's dad's left is a man who either doesn't know what's going on, or really doesn't like marriage.
 

In the world of the three-year olds, my little girl is the most enthusiastic of Streep fans. She dances, she jumps, she claps, she practically stage-dived at one point. If every fan behaved like this, security would have arrived.

Once again, Simon and Dyl wove together such a sweet melody of love during "Only Bath For You" that it was all I could to to keep it together.



 

 Simon putting his heart and soul into cheering up Dylan's guitar, which stopped working for a few heart-stopping moments during one song.

The boys who started it all, giving it all. Dyl's guitar must have been working again for him to be smiling like that.
 

Rich delivered yet another flawless "One More Time!". If I remember correctly (it's just after midnight and I haven't had any coffee tonight), he had the somewhat ironic experience of having to say it one more time too. Stage miscommunications can produce entertaining results.

When Simon put his guitar down during The Pirate Song, I knew things were about to get wild.

Sure enough, he broke official Streep stage formation and headed for the railing. 

The crowd seated in the front both left and right of the stage were treated to an up close and personal performance...

...but when Simon jumped over the railing with the wireless mic to sing IN the crowd, I thought the sound engineer was going to have a heart attack.

We walked off the stage to some enthusiastic applause from a crowd consisting mostly of people hearing us for the first time, so we were pretty happy with the end result of the show.

And I was given assistance in fending off the paparazzi by my daughter.

See you at the next show! Especially Moustreepie!