Added on March 11, 2011
Everett True
ATV , Best Coast , Blank Realm , Brisbane , Dunedin , Eddie Vedder , edgy , Eternal Soundcheck , Flying Nun , Hamish Kilgour , MGMT , Neu! , Panel Of Judges , Pavement , post-punk , Robert Scott , Songs , Sonic Youth , Spiral Stairs , Tally Ho , The Bats , The Clean , The Clientele , The Deadnotes , the Dunedin Sound , The Go-Betweens , The Laughing Clowns , The Legend , The Thin Kids , The Velvet Underground , The Vine , The Zoo , Turn It Up , Yo La Tengo
I doubt if there’s a single person here who undervalues The Clean’s beauty, their vivid guitar storms punctuated by trebly guitar excess and bursts of down-home, deprecating humour.
Added on March 11, 2011
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Andy Mackay , Brisbane , Bryan Ferry , For Your Pleasure , Justin Edwards , March 2011 , Paul Thompson , Phil Manzanera , Pink Floyd , Riverstage , Roxy Music
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.
Added on March 10, 2011
Sophie
Belle And Sebastian , Brisbane , David Foster Wallace , Joanna Newsom , Neal Morgan , Parenthetical Girls , Sophie Blackhall-Cain , The Tivoli
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
Added on March 9, 2011
Jodi Biddle
BABAGANOUJ , Ben Salter , BIG SCARY , Brisbane , Die! Die! Die! , footstomp music , Graham Ashton , GUINEAFOWL , Inland Sea , interview , JUD CAMPBELL , KING CANNONS , MOSMAN ALDER , Numbers Radio , PANGAEA , RAT V POSSUM , RESPECT DJ’S , RICHARD IN OUR MIND , Rics , ric’s bar , ric’s big backyard festival , SIX FT HICK , The Cairos , The Honey Month , The Mercy Beat , Velociraptor , We All Want To , You Am I
Iconic/shambolic Valley bar Ric’s has decided to join the dubious ranks of the festival circuit.
Added on March 3, 2011
Everett True
Brisbane , Have One On Me , Joanna Newsom , Judith Wright Centre , live preview , Michael Nyman , Room 40 , Ryan Francesconi , Stina
Delicate, flowering, piano pop miniatures and vibes instrumentals like you’re stuck within a particularly fine Michael Nyman soundtrack
Added on March 2, 2011
Everett True
Brisbane , Consume , Honky Kong , Joel Stern , live preview , Omar Souleyman , Sky Needle , The Hi-Fi
You’d have to be crazy to miss this! It’s crazy good shit, I tell you. Crazy good shit. And it’s FREE!
Added on March 1, 2011
Everett True
Brisbane , Edward Guglielmino , Hi-Fi Bar , Kate Nash , Make The Girls Dance , Rave , The Thin Kids , Young Men Dead
Young Men Dead followed The Thin Kids. Their stage presence is a little awkward, but that is probably due to the lack of a giant cockroach gyrating through the stage.
Added on February 28, 2011
Jodi Biddle
Ball Park Music , Brisbane , brisbane indie darlings , Mucho Bravado , my own pet radio , pop , sam cromack , unidentified flying collection of songs
If you’re familiar with Ball Park Music, tune out for a bit. If you’re not, well, Sam Cromack makes jangly, slightly off-kilter, overly self-concious and highly infectious pop tunes with his band mates in BPM.
Added on February 26, 2011
Sophie
Brisbane , High Places , Nick Zammuto , Sophie Blackhall-Cain , The Books , The Way Out , The Zoo
The band members simply smiled wryly at the visual aid behind them and let it do the majority of the crowd interaction.
Added on February 26, 2011
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2010 , Australia , Brisbane , Collapse Board , concerts , gigs , Justin Edwards , live , Music Photography , Review , Sony a700 , The Troubadour , The Zoo
Photographer Justin Edwards looks back over the Brisbane live scene in 2010. (This article was originally published on This Is Not A Photo Opportunity.)