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 [...]
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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 Gigs of 2008 pt 1
In part two of my review of the year that was, I’ll take an in depth look at my favourite gigs of 2008. While 2008 was somewhat less endowed with gigs than what I was able to attend in 2007 (around one for every two the previous year), it was certainly a diverse year which [...]
Rocket Science at Amplifier – 13-09-2008
I’m incredibly behind on gig reviews, but, it’s not as though I’m currently writing them with a view for them to be anything other than a recollection for myself. It’s a shame though, because there’s been some awesome local gigs in recent weeks that deserve me finding the time to write about them and a [...]
