I forgot to post that at the end of January, I went to see the Horrors live (thanks @tephdee for selling me a ticket!). It was the same day I got back from a week in Sydney – my first proper time there. Crowd-wise, I had a terrible experience. I was bullied by this horrible [...]
(it’s not essential but you might want to read part #1 of this here, and part #2 of it here) Beirut, March of the Zapotec and the Realpeople Holland Zach Condon’s Balkan gypsy stylings returns! With added ambient electronica! I can’t really fault it. Explosions in the Sky, The Earth Is A Cold, Dead Place [...]
Tagged Beirut, Explosions in the Sky, musicI found out about this on a music community on LJ of all places, yeah okay, admittedly they’re pretty hip… So this dude decides to dance to 100 songs, in 100 different places, in 100 days. His moves are awe-inspiring. I feel happy just watching him strut his stuff, seriously. Some people just make life [...]
Tagged awesome, Boombox, dancing, Ely Kim, funI can’t even remember how it was that I came to think that I’d like The Grey Daturas – maybe it was the drone/noise thing, whatever. It’s not really important. The short review of their gig at the Arthouse, Melbourne is they produce sounds that made me want to take off my panties and press [...]
Tagged Flipper, live music, Melbourne, The Arthouse, The Grey Daturas(continuation of CD reviews from this post) Future of the Left, Curses The band Future of the Left is made up of some of the members of the now-defunct Welsh punk outfit mclusky. They loved Australia, and gigged here frequently. Sadly, I was not able to catch them in that incarnation, but when I heard [...]
Tagged CDs, Future of the Left, mclusky, punk, review, Yeah Yeah YeahsI defy you to think otherwise after viewing the following clip: Hee hee. I’ve got more poetry cred than a member of Blur! I read complete Auden in high school. Yeah, that made me popular. < / sarcasm >
Tagged Alex James, BBC advertisment, Blur, poetry, W. H. AudenBy no stretch of the imagination am I a tech geek. Nu-uh. I think as far as arts geeks go, I tend to like getting my feet wet in some geekery, but not much. A few weeks ago, I got a Nokia N95 and didn’t really think much of it at the time. I mean, [...]
Tagged last.fm, Mobbler, mobile phone, music, Nokia N95, scrobblingFriday afternoon, week before last. Melbourne was torrential. I was due to have lunch with IP and having stayed up the entire night before was too wobbly on my legs to ride to the train station. I walked down Bourke St to JB HiFi to get a whole stack of CDs I’d been lusting after…none [...]
Tagged compact discs, compilation, Dark Was The Night, music, Rough Trade, The Fall, various artistsA couple of weeks ago, I had the good fortune to see this amazing crazy musical artist called Dan Deacon, thanks to my chum @futuresandwich. I met up with him and his dapper brother @jawclick, watched the two of them argue and natter like a married couple before we bumped into more Twitterers at the [...]
Tagged Dan Deacon, friends, gig, Melbourne, music, The ToteI’d never made a mixtape for a crush till late last year. Z and I, when we first met, chose a whole bunch of CDs we thought the other would like and swapped them over. Got introduced to some fantastic music that way. M already listened to a lot of stuff I liked. He’s also [...]
Tagged crush, mixtape, musicWow, my blog heard me complaining about how slow it was to load up and did the opposite. Awesome. I missed the EMS softcore ride this weekend, sadly. I didn’t have enough money to get my gear and such sorted. Shame. The housemate tells me it was a lovely trip. However, I was banking on [...]
Tagged live performance, music, Simian Mobile DiscoI think often about the Final Fantasy gig I went to see in mid-December. It’s probably one of the happiest moments in what has been to date an unhappy period of my life. I’m not sure I did a good job of explaining what it is that Owen Pallett really does in his gigs, so [...]
Tagged classical music, Final Fantasy, love, Owen PallettDue to various circumstances out of my control, I missed out on acquiring a ticket to see Final Fantasy – initially. However, a former workmate who has industry contacts told me that tickets were on sale and after a mad flurry, I headed down to The Toff In Town, some fairly swanky venue in Melbourne [...]
Tagged concert, Final Fantasy, Melbourne(if it has an asterisk next to it, it means I’d buy it on CD if I don’t already have it) First some all-time faves… 1. Coil, Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) (easily one of my fave bands this year. Never mind that they’re ancient, and no longer exist) 2. Radiohead, The [...]
Tagged lists, music, playlist