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Tim Rogers’ guitar pick. I scored it at the end of the set on my overnight road trip to Toowoomba on Thursday to watch You Am I’s brilliant gig at the Irish Club that only 100 or so other lucky people got to experience.

I Woke Up Today - Port O’Brien

It’s pretty rad when songs seem like they are written for people to sing along with. I know when I let my inner musician start writing and performing, all my songs will be sing alongs.

Was curious so sorted my iTunes via play count. There’s nothing quite like the uninterestingness of being cliche after a break up.

Mother - The John Steel SIngers

Been on a iTunes binge over the last week and this is by far my fave track.

Kids stateside, these guys have just won the Triple J Unearthed award and tour with the little carebears shot up with taurine so you know their hands have been stamped and are allowed behind the velvet rope.

I’m always scared of anyone that says they live their life with no regrets. They’re the kind of people who are Amway reps, own Anthony Robbins DVDs, know the laws of The Secret and have a Life Coach. Fuck that. Life is one massive regret. I’m not saying you have to wallow in self pity and doubt about missed chances but acknowledgeing regrets/fuck ups is healthy as well as being great fodder for topics of conversation and reasons for increased alcohol consumption, mostly done together. Which is why I thought I’d switch the best gigs threads into the live shows you missed thread.

I can almost guarantee my life would be different (maybe…ahhh probably not) if I had been to at least one or two of these gigs this year. Still, I do really wish I had seen these shows. So, in order…

The Wombats @ The Zoo, Brisbane

Bloc Party @ Riverstage, Brisbane

You Am I @ The Zoo, Brisbane

Vampire Weekend, The Wombats, The Fratellis, The Grates, British India @ Splendor in the Grass, Byron Bay

Paul Dempsey @ The Troubadour, Brisbane

Danny Callahan - Conor Oberst

(via fred-wilson)

I was meant to see Conor play when he was in Brisbane two months back but I had to go back home and missed out. Really disappointed I did. This track is excellent.

postpunk wrote:

The Go-Betweens - Lee Remick

Here’s a gem from the “lost” Go-Betweens album.

(via butterflyeffect)

There’s a fantastic cover of this song by Patience from The Grates on the Go-Betweens tribute album released last year.

Valley Fiesta was tops. My fave acts from the weekend were The Cairos, Little Vegas and The Fuzz Parade and Numbers Radio. Love street festivals. Mainly because the crowds are pretty subdued music lovers combined with confused onlookers of people on a regular weekend who stumble across the festival yet it is sans the usual festival fucktards with their flouro, flags and fairy wings.

Photo by Alex, again (is starting to feel like I have my own personal photographer).

Forget Barack Obama’a novelty songs. Australia’s Prime Ministers have deadly songs written and performed about them. I give you Gough by The Whitlams.

buyhercandy wrote:

I need to select a few of my gig photos to enter in Billboard & PDN’s music photography competition.

Here is my flickr, and here is my website.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to which ones I should pick? I’d love some input. It costs $15 to enter a photo in the amateur section, or $20 for a series of six photos with a theme. (Apparently, to count as a profressional, 50% of your income must come from photo sales. Ahahaha I WISH)

Autumn de Wilde is one of the judges, oh my god.

Here is a series of six shots with a corny title ‘At the foot of The Rock’.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

So do I have a foot fetish because I selected these out of all your amazing images or is it you that has one for taking the photos in the first place? Sicko.

Drapht - Jimmy Recard

Heard on jjj.

Ben Folds - Rockin’ The Suburbs

An all kinds of excellent live version from Music Live From ‘The Panel’.

I mentioned that at The Grates’ incognito gig last week I may have been trying a bit of pun based comical material interrupting the between song banter of a rock star. This morning someone who recorded the night and read my blog sent me a link to the audio of the whole show saying I can clearly be heard. I’m with John McCain, the wonders of the internets huh? From the 33 seconds of audio I’ve uploaded, the guy yelling “Two Thousand and Grate” ummm yeah ‘twas me. Don’t you hate it when you realise you are the loud annoying drunk person in your group of friends? Fuckity fuck fuck. If I disliked copyright and allowed the audio to go onto the song she is introducing Aw Yeah you would understand why I was so stupidly over excited on the radio last week when giving a run down of the gig. It was an atrocious unintelligible review. But with so many killer tunes by a band that puts in a gargantuan performance I loved it too much to actually speak like even a pretending to be smart human.

The Grates played a secret show incognito (albeit in name only, no disguises :( ) last night at the Troubadour in Brisbane to test their new material / burn off some excess energy before the secret shows and music festivals in a few weeks time. They played six songs from the new album. Besides Burn Bridges I really loved Earthquake, Biggest Largest Adventure Ever and Aw Yeah . Look out for these cracking new tunes among others at Splendour, on the album, at the secret shows etc., they’ll be big I tell ya, BIG. All the new stuff sounds heaps epic. Not as poppy, as brilliantly poppy as their last album was, but now the new stuff just sounds larger. I don’t know how else to describe it but is is a cool thing.

Disappointments of the night: My shouted response from the middle of the room of “Two Thousand and Grate” to Patience saying it was “the best Tuesday night of 2008” didn’t get much more than a nod of the head from the girl next to me. That was my best material. Also, Patience didn’t marry me and I didn’t see a girl I was hoping to see there but that’s not really The Grates’ fault I guess.

The best bits: they still totally bounce around the stage like little carebears shot up with taurine, are as cutely rainbow mouthed as ever on stage but off stage are the most laid back nice people with the show ending with Patience giving the crowd hugs after crowd surfing to the back of the venue then all band members hanging around for an hour or more chatting to people and the confirmation they they are web 2.0 compliant after I told them they had the best Australian band blog before then talking tumblr, twitter, social networks with John.

All in all: 5 out of 3.

Best ever description of The Grates.

rach wrote:

The Grates - Burn Bridges

The Grates have been my go-to hyperactive Aussie trio (narrow criterion, true) since Gravity Won’t Get You High in 2006. They are so cute and bounce around the stage like little carebears shot up with taurine. New album is out in early August and this is single number one.

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