LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT
An underdog story has had a perplexing update last night as a local muso was completely unsure how to react to their friends actually showing up to his gig.
As a longtime gig pig, singer/songwriter Mitch Keabes (34) of the Betoota Flight Path District is used to hitting ‘invite all’ on his rolling events page before eventually performing in front of a few people who are much more invested in hitting the feature.
Last night, Keabes was ready to perform his original playlist that would be undermined by someone asking for Flame Trees after the first song but ended up getting completely side-tracked when he looked into the audience and saw his friends smiling back at him.
“I know they came specifically to see me because that pub is awful,” stated Keabes, still riding the high of public approval.
“They started yelling out requests for me to play my own songs and I just panicked. It’s the first time that’s happened, I didn’t know whether to play, cry or shit myself.”
According to witnesses, Keabes stood silent and moist eyed behind the microphone for a solid three minutes, both soaking up the moment and trying to figure out what was happening.
“I know it meant a lot for him to see us there,” stated one of Keabes’s friends who has now been elevated to pallbearer status.
“And I hope he really enjoyed it because that’s us off the hook for another five years.”
