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Manning Bar, Sydney - 2009/2010.

Spontaneous interstate trip for a gig = Best NYE Ever!

Must see Australian band The Grates are doing their thing stateside now so you HAVE to go check them out. They are such a fun band to see live as they always draw the happiest cutest crowds, deliver ace between song banter and wizard performances. Totes worth it. Promise. USA tour info.

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.

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.

1. Was subtley and coolly bopping up and down just then at a coffee shop while humming Inside Outside and the cashier told me to stop. Fair enough?

2. Forgot to mention that if you go to a Grates gig in the near future they will use their powers of persuasion, influence and cuteness to betray your trust by making you drink from one of three cans of lemonade that will be passed around the entire room with each person in the crowd taking a sip from a can. You will not be able to resist or counter this and you will most definitely pick up a couple of diseases but they will be trendy diseases that will make your friends jealous. Awesome!

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.

Patience from the funnest band in the world The Grates

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