Tribute nights can go two ways. They can be convoluted and contrived, struggling to even pay homage to the band they’re hoping to revere or trying too hard to be like them. Or, they can go swimmingly, being packed out with talented, passionate musicians who deliver their own takes the songs originally penned by their [...]
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Review: Dan Kelly @ Amplifier Bar – 04-06-2010
A temperate winter Perth Friday night saw the cool kids pile into Amplifier to witness a fine performance by one of Australia’s criminally unheralded singer/songwriters/guitar maestros, all round nice guy, Dan Kelly. A decidedly under filled venue served to illustrate that here is a man who is flying under the radar and I’m here to say, this [...]
Pavement @ Metro City Perth 09-03-2010
Tonight’s set list was eclectic, yet wonderful and perhaps slightly orchestrated around SM’s slightly hoarse voice: Silence Kid Father to A Sister of Thought Stereo Frontwards In The Mouth A Desert Rattled By The Rush Date w/ Ikea Grounded Range Life Unfair We Dance Kennel District Cut Your Hair Stop Breathin’ Summer Babe Gold Soundz [...]
The man is back in town
I’m more than just a little excited about this. Even if he doesn’t play a single Pavement song, the show is bound to be spectacular. With the Doves having just been here, 2009 may well be the year of ‘seeing bands you always wanted to but weren’t sure you ever would’. I should probably come [...]
Top 20 artists of 2008 part 2
Time now for part 2 of the Top 20 artists adorning my listening habits for the year 2008. On with the countdown: #10 - Broken Social Scene – 403 listens Broken Social Scene are one of those bands whose music seeps its way into your subconscious and before you know it’s permeated a small corner [...]
Top 20 artists of 2008 part 1
With 2008 now officially over and then some, I figured it was my turn to pull out a compilation of top XX lists where XX is an arbitrary number pulled out of my head based on how much I can actually be bother writing about a subject. I’m starting out ambitiously with 20 for this [...]
One may have already seen this, but…
Much to the chagrin and confusion of most of my music loving friends, I’m a fairly big fan of hip hop as a genre. I ain’t talkin’ bitches ‘n’ hoes and cap poppin’ so much, but I’m talking thoughtful, creative wordsmithery with honed melodies influenced by classic jazz sampling and the like, though there’s always room [...]
80s World: Hall and Oates – Out of Touch
Shake it up is all that we know Using the bodies up as we go, yeah I’m waking up to fantasy The shades all around aren’t the colours we use to see Broken ice, still melts in the sun And times that are broken can often be one again We’re soul alone And soul really [...]
80s World: Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer
A long time ago, modern popular musically speaking, there was a band called Genesis (though this is perhaps a misleading statement, given that they are still together in some shape or form). The name, however, is apt, in part for the creative art/progressive-rock style music the band created, but also for it being the launch [...]
Red Apple Falls – Smog
In recent weeks and months I’ve been on a fairly rampant campaign of padding out my back catalogue with various artists that one who collects music tends to label ‘Artists That I’ve Always Meant to Get Into But Haven’t Got Around to Because There’s Always so Much Bloody Music to Discover’ or some such thing [...]
