Song of the day – 384: Happy Noose (the International Pop Underground marches on)
Fumbling, unsure but with a real swaggering gait. Lovely, lovely, lovely.
an interview with Joel Stern
I don’t buy that whole kind of “Brisbane is shitty” thing. At the level of underground activity, I’m really positive about this place.
Eternal Soundcheck: The First Year (2010)
My humble little film about Australian music, Eternal Soundcheck: The First Year can now be watched in full on YouTube.
AUSTRALIAN MIXTAPE
It’s so easy to offend weiners on the internet. I could talk about Frankly Festival and point out the fact that most Brisbane gig goers are as clicky as fuck and cliched cunts – but I feel that controversy has been well represented throughout music blogs as of late. So this is my virtual mix […]
Song of the day – 180: Bitch Prefect
Just returned home from a rare evening out in the city, from the screening of Matt’s footage celebrating one year of Eternal Soundcheck. I intend to write a fuller report later, so I’ll hold back from describing it except to say zowee! – Matt sure has a finely tuned aesthetic! – but I just had […]
Song of the day – 49: Kitchen’s Floor
Never trust a critic. Never trust an artist. Trust the tale. D.H Lawrence held that, “The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it”. It’s a great notion, and I understand what he means – the reason why it’s possible to love ‘Love Your Money’ by Daisy […]
Song of the day – 42: Camera Obscura
Spain’s Elefant Records just sent me a parcel of 14 lovely shiny brand-new seven-inch singles. Names like Television Personalities, The School, Papa Topo, Helen Love, The Carrots and Stereo-Total. Oh yes. I really will have to dust off that USB record-player finally and have myself a listening party with a few select Brisbane sorts. There’s […]
Spotlight – 41: Bitch Prefect
This recommendation comes courtesy of the fine Eternal Soundcheck blog. As Matt writes, “Bitch Prefect are from Adelaide and play really nice simple pop music – Think the Clean, Velvet Underground, a bit of Half/Japanese and mix it up with the retardation that growing up in a small city town in Australia would do to […]
Spotlight – 38: Black Candy
Bangs alive, but I love Facebook sometimes. Throws up unexpected, glorious music from around the world. Speaking of which… you have checked out this blog already, right? This brings us to Black Candy – an Italian friend sent me the link a while ago, and I just checked it out. In their own words, they […]
Spotlight – 29: Kitchen’s Floor
As I said somewhere else just now, I keep forgetting how much I remain in love with the thrill of live music. Blame it on my age. Whatever. At least I know my limitations. Oh maybe I shouldn’t. Or maybe I don’t. Oh maybe I just want to FUCK AND GET HIGH FUCK AND GET […]
