The Moon cafe presents the artsy culture with some interesting characters from the likes of poetry, art and music scenes.

From the depths of the Moon, you could hear Jacob Diamond busting out some smooth ass jazz/bluesy influenced originals. He shot me a smile as I continued to sit in a comfy sofa to study his unique chords and stylistic attributes. Diamond’s beautifully thought out lyricism complimentary guitar rhythms were to die for; not to mention his quirky jolts and chicken grooves. He played a real slow paced jazz style original Docks, his charming vocal sliding in and out of falsetto wails as his hands did as they pleased across the fret board. Happy viewers tore into their real tasty meals as they enjoyed Diamond’s company and he turned a couple of hads when he mentioned his next tune to be Paul Simon’s When Everything Put Together Falls Apart.. Diamond went out on a good note by playing his twisted dark humour simmered country tune If And When I Die. A fine musician who knows the perfect blend of dissonance contrasted with clarity and a suave-born entertainer

Casually stepping up and chatting briefly with Diamond, remarking his performance, Mitch McDonald looked as though this was just another day in the office. McDonald of The Love Junkies had just recently performed as a support to around five hundred people at Fly By Night for the Paul Dempsey side show regarding their 20 year anniversary. The Moon greeted McDonald with much silence as he asked how the onlookers were doing and jokingly answered his own question. He requested that there be ‘heaps of verb’ on his vocal and began his angelic performance in just the right way. McDonald is a passionate performer in most circumstances, but tonight, this was almost a private performance to his two mate off to the side even whispering into the mic ‘this one’s for you’ in some Puerto Rican accent. At one point in his performance he realised he had not played any fast or even slightly uplifting tunes from his repertoire, he turned to his friends and stated that he should ‘pick things up a bit’, going on to make a short reference to Hanson’s Mmmbop, McDonald bashed out a cool cover of The Screaming Jets’ Shivers to top off the night.