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VII Nights of No Anchor

This was one of the musical highlights of my life so far.

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Keep On Dancin’s CD Launch

This went pretty well.

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Step Inn Front Bar for Electronic Noise and Loud Guitars

Why would you bother with TV at home?

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A long weekend in Melbourne

I am now over men in dress-ups and edgy makeup singing about the devil an’ shit and thanking us for coming along tonight an’ here’s a song about dead things I have crafted just for you thanks again.

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Nova Scotia LP launch

Arbuckle came out of retirement for this and I’m glad I was there to see them.

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Undead Apes Vinyl Launch

The Troubadour should have closed after this show. I can’t imagine the final night would have been half as good as this one; drunker and longer maybe, but if I want to cry in my beer over music I’ll watch The X Factor final again. OK you’re right, I won’t ever do that again. And […]

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Vegas Kings Have Left The Building

Hell, pretty soon the building will have left the building. And what better way to start the death watch on The Troubadour than the Final Vegas Kings show of all time. Words cannot describe, photos cannot show, and recordings cannot let you hear the passion the Kings unleashed on the room last Saturday night. The […]

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Bitch Prefect at Woodland and Deadshits Motel.

First time at Woodland and it is impressive. Lots of space good layout. Stage up off the ground. Lights. Air con. Bar. Everything you need really. With the Troubadour and Globe closing we need new venues so the timing couldn’t be better. Having been away from live music for about two weeks I realized about […]

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Open Frame Festival live @ Powerhouse, 06-07.10.10

Open Frame Festival over two nights upstairs at the Powerhouse. Relaxed setting, beautiful quad sound and some of the finest music around. This was probably best event I have been to this year. The stand out for me was Nadja. So heavy. I wrote somewhere they were like Sunn O))) with melodies if you can […]

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Vegas Kings third last show(?) and the bloody Undead Apes again

Plus, Boy Or Astroboy and BMXRays. Boy Or Astroboy are a bunch of local luminaries doing instrumental surf rock. Who’d have guessed. And good they are. BMXRays are three-piece power pop punk with a sense of humour. What could possibly go wrong. Yeah, the Undead Apes again. You may be bored but I feel blessed. […]