IN WORDS: Boomgates + Super Wild Horses + Per Purpose @ Woodland 07.05.11
My internal douchebage disappears and are replaced by feelings of guilt, confusion and remorse as Super Wild Horses glide through their set.
Cults vs Warpaint @ the Great Escape Festival 2011, Brighton, UK, 12.05.11
The music and the dancing is infectious. and the crowd sway and dance as Cults work the room into a blissful frenzy.
Metronomy + Django Django @ La Cigale, Paris, 04.05.11
The sound of a theatre full of enthused Parisians is no mean feat, and Metronomy certainly seem to have instilled a sense of ‘Rule Britannia’ in this sweat-sodden throng as they heartedly cry out in a full crowd sing-along.
Stature::Statue + Velociraptor + Dune Rats + Horse Fight + Tape/Off @ The Zoo, 28.04.11
Tonight, for me, is about Dune Rats.
Gruff Rhys + Matt Tow @ Excelsior Hotel, Sydney, 03.05.11
Without the strange adjuncts Rhys has a nice collection of folky tunes. With them he has a nutball bag of charming oddities.
Johnny Foreigner @ Bodgea Social Club, Nottingham, UK, 22.04.11
Beneath THAT, there’s the intricately dense, instantly relatable and increasingly self-referential lyrics.
Crystal Stilts @ Farm 255, Athens GA, 24.04.11
Somewhere along the line, apparently, Crystal Pepsi and I developed different ideas of what rock music could/should/would do.
Motörhead @ Gold Coast Convention Centre 01.04.11
Long way to go to hang with life’s metal carnage. But that was just the crowd in the foyer. Really it was all about this guy…
Gang Of Four @ Le Trabendo, Paris 18.03.11
There are no wanky digressions or lead fretwork clogging up the song with rock star dirge, just a well executed use of noise vs silence, skill vs sparse.
Crystal Stilts + Comet Gain @ Cargo, London, 30.03.11
Crystal Stilts are exactly the kind of establishment vehicle that will drive rock’n'roll into the abyss of bourgeois vanity at 130 beats per minute.
Giants Of Science + Undead Apes @ Rics Cafe, 25.03.11
Yes, little kid, some rock does have proverbial testicles.
Neil Diamond @ Brisbane Entertainment Centre, 23.03.11
“The rules of tonight are very simple. I go where the noise takes me.”
The Hold Steady @ The Zoo, 09.03.11
When it comes to flicking through the shelves of CDs at my place to decide what to put on the stereo, more often than not the conversation starts with the following opening: Girlfriend – “Every time I think there can’t be any more Bruce Springsteen albums, I manage to find another one”.
Best Coast @ Woodland 10.03.11
Sometimes I wonder what it must be like to be in a popular band and play on stage at a sold out show to a front row of people with their iphones held aloft, recording the moment for later playback rather than living than moment.
Belle And Sebastion @ The Tivoli, 07.03.11
Speaking as a Ramones and Undertones fan, I love a bit of self-parody, me. As long as it’s done straight.
Joanna Newsom @ The Tivoli, 04.03.11
We love Joanna here at Collapse Board. So much so, that here’s our second live review of her recent Brisbane show.
Roxy Music @ The Riverstage, 01.03.11
It’s pretty good, although it’s the much smoother, slicker sound of later Roxy rather than the art school early years, although at times they sound like a more jazz Pink Floyd.
Joanna Newsom + Neal Morgan @ The Tivoli, 04.03.11
Joanna Newsom is an artist who is a hair’s breadth away from my heart. Milk-Eyed Mender is a startling discovery to make when you’re 15
AXXON tour blog, part 3
I see the manager walking across the room and my volume dissipates. When you’re one man and making the kind thick nutritious sonic slabs that AXXONN makes, it’s like having your throat cut
