By Iain Blair

Playing the second half of my band’s “world tour” in Oz later this month (we’re doing just two shows – the first was in London, the second’s in Perth). Arrived in Sydney after a long, long flight that seemed to take days – and because of the date line you do arrive two days after you leave L.A.

Weather is gorgeous and Sydney Harbor looks spectacular. Spent the first day on a ferry across to Manly and filmed the whole trip with a great camera, a Hitachi HS303 hybrid hard disc and DVD camera, which lets you record nearly 3 hours on the hard disc, and 30 mins each on the DVDs. The next day we set off for the fabled Blue Mountains on a train and then spent the day hiking around the spectacular sandstone formations, shooting waterfalls and flocks of wild white and black & yellow cockatoos in the rain forest below.  Again, the camera was perfect as it’s so lightweight and easy to shoot with. Sydney reminds me so much of L.A.—similar  climate, equally big and sprawling, but far less traffic and far more exotic birds and wildlife everywhere ——even saw some wild wallabies from the train, running around some parkland in the suburbs.

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