Triple J Hottest 100: Am I Hot Or Not?
Why does Australia need a tax-funded radio station that plays the same songs and bands as a commercial radio station?
Collapse Board Goes To The Big Day Out 2011
Why are female drummers always so happy whereas guy drummers always look in serious pain?
Sarah Blasko live @ Café de Danse, Paris, 04.12.10
Songs are played to a completely silent crowd. Songs end and are met with rapturous applause, there is no chatter level to fight against. Brisbane crowds take note.
Sunset Sounds 2011 @ The Riverstage: Day 2, 06.01.11
the place was an absolute mud bath
The 100 Best Australian Albums – All Your Bands Are Belong To Us
A few weeks ago the list of the 100 Best Australia Albums, as determined by music journalists Toby Creswell and Craig Mathieson, together with music industry executive and ex-journalist John O’Donnell, was published, a precursor to the mandatory book and CD set. I’m surprised no one else has posted something more comprehensive on Collapse Board […]
sixfthick live @ Woodland, 29.10.10
Sixfthick are the band by which I judge all the other bands in Brisbane. If you’re in a band you should be here, you should be in the front row furiously scribbling notes about how to put on a show. Tonight is their 15th anniversary show and the launch of their new seven-inch single. They’re one […]
Triple J Week – the week in numbers
In terms of listeners, Triple J is way down the list; figures released this week put it in seventh place in Brisbane. And yet its influence is massive.
Triple J Week – Friday 29 October
And so we reach the end of Triple J week, here on Collapse Board. I won’t write too much today, as I’ll be posting my observations about the combined and crunched data over the next few days. Australian acts made up just over 50% of the 104 songs played between 9am and 5:30pm today. Country Total […]
Triple J Week – Thursday 28 October
Part of the reason to listen to Triple J for the week was to try and get a handle on the amount of cross-promoting it does. How Triple J gets away with it has always been something that no one has ever been able to properly answer whenever I’ve mentioned it in a music forum. If […]
