hey jupiter
alone at the blackwater holylight show
24 June, 2026
I am alone at the Blackwater Holylight show, and this one is a little bit different to the others. This is a show that I only bought tickets to today, even though I'd had the event page open in my phone browser tab for a couple months. I'd seen that they were coming in the Corner Hotel email newsletter, of all places - fun fact, if you delete instagram from your phone, your brain will go searching for dopamine in other places, like your email inbox. Anyway, I clicked on the link for their show in the Corner Hotel email newsletter, and then every time I went in to clean up my browser tabs over the next couple of months, I would see the ticket page sitting there. I'd um-and-ah about swiping it closed, but something would always stop me, until I finally pulled the trigger and bought a ticket on the morning of the show.
All this is to say that I almost didnt come to this show, and now that I am here, I'm really fucking glad that I did. It's less busy than I thought it would be, I'm guessing becuase the tickets were kind of expensive, and a bunch of people who would normally come to a gig like this are likely in Tasmania right now for Dark MOFO. Which is great for me, because I got here about half an hour before they're meant to start and I'm like, a row behind the front. I have a pint of Melbourne Bitter in my hand, a shitty week behind me and I am ready to be hammered like a tent peg into the ground by some music.