Heyhey In Rockers and welcome to the lobby, where each and every month we catch up from wherever we may be when it comes time to reflect on the past few weeks! This month we catch up from Australia as Goo Goo Dolls are over here touring with Matchbox 20 for the next few weeks, oh and the water does swirl the other way down the drains here!

We arrived and rehearsed in Perth for a couple of days before the first show, what a cool city, isolated but with the feeling of art and music everywhere you turned, very cool. The shows are a blast, it was a little bit different playing in the opening slot after a year of headlining shows, It's tough to pare down a catalog like ours into 60 minutes but we have a super tight 60 put together, and it’s been going really well! We're already discussing a return trip next year; we'll keep you posted if you're interested in making a trip down under for some Goo Goo Dolls shows!

As I'm writing this we're a little more than half done with the trip, a total of 12 shows across Australia and New Zealand, lots of driving and flying and lots of new fans being made as we play our rock for the first time in over 20 years in these territories! We've been so busy with travel and such that there hasn't been a bunch of time to see a ton of stuff, but I did get to see a Banksy Exhibit here in Sydney that I just stumbled upon as I was out wandering around. I love when I happen upon these types of things, I'm a huge fan and was able to spend some time amongst the art pieces and some amazingly curated documentaries about the artist! We also were fortunate enough to be treated to a “backstage” experience at the world famous Taronga Zoo and met up face to face with some of the local marsupial population! We got a chance to go right inside the enclosure and learned so much about these little guys from the staff, things like Koalas have fire retardant fur and marsupials like koalas and kangaroos have their babies when they are the size of a bean and they crawl through the mothers fur on their own and finish baking in their mothers pouch until they are strong enough to make it out and survive under their own strength (I'm not making this up). We also got to meet a platypus, half bird, half mammal, totally weird! Australia's wild ....

Another show tonight in Newcastle and we’re off to Brisbane, The Gold Coast before heading to New Zealand.

Hey, I'd also like to mention a song I was involved with that will be released by the Good Charamel Label worldwide that was recorded for Noto Earthquake relief by Japanese Rock Band The Molice and Buffalo, NY alternative Rock Band Letter to Elise. The cities of Kanazawa (home of The Molice's lead singer Rinko) and Buffalo, NY have been sister cities since the early 60s and these 2 bands have joined together to record a track called Ride The Wind that will be released later this month through the bands and labels social media sites with links for donations to help in the relief effort.

Catch up with me next month here in the lobby to hear about our adventures in New Zealand, the rest of the AUS tour and way, way more as we make our way into Cherry Blossom season and the warmth of Spring! Talk soon and have a great month!

Peace
Robby

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