You should know this about me. I like Robert Forster. I really don’t like Phil Collins.
So imagine my outrage on Saturday night. There were only a couple of minutes to go before Robert’s ’15 Songs About Brisbane’ set at the Powerhouse’s outdoor amphitheatre. We were sat in place, excited – a little chilled, but mostly excited as it’s rare indeed we get to spend an evening out together, let alone […]
Song of the day – 183: Gogol Bordello
Fucking great band, fucking great song, fucking great performance, fucking great sound, fucking great video. What more can I say? One of my PhD supervisors wonders aloud on Facebook if “the whole thing of this clip was Sony doing a social justice marketing strategy” – very likely, and I’m sure both band and record company […]
Song of the day – 182: Pigeonhed
I have an awful lot of time for Seattle’s Steve Fisk, and not only because a) people have mistaken us for brothers, b) he’s the only man alive I know that’s grumpier than me, and c) I once appeared in a pick-up band alongside him and our cartoonist buddies Peter Bagge and Eric Reynolds playing […]
Song of the day – 181: Useless Children
This is punk as I understand it. Fast. Female-led. Uncompromising. Melodic underneath a welter of bruised fists and egos. Fast. Brief. Angry, doubtless. Not polite whatsoever. I’ll play Useless Children‘s new six-song Exo Records EP three times max, lose it down the back of the computer, find it in five months time, shove ‘Sounds’ on […]
three more links for you all
You can find a handful of mix tapes at the following links. Here’s Everett True’s perfect summer femme-pop mix tape Please note that the track listing differs to the one in the blog entry. Copyright considerations, and all that. If you like any of the featured artists, please track back to their MySpace sites, record […]
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 […]
my iTunes Top 20, week ending 17.09.10
I’m only including one track per album (aside from the omnipresent Bluebeat 45s, from which I’ve drawn three) as to do otherwise would unbalance the entire chart. This isn’t accurate by any means, and complete omits any listening that takes place (for example) at the office, on the bus, in the car, on vinyl, in […]
Song of the day – 179: Otouto
Folk over here (notably themselves) compare this Melbourne trio’s delicate and intelligent dance music to Bjork, Young Marble Giants, Arthur Russell and Laurie Anderson… but I don’t really hear any of that. The oblique and faintly awkward grooves, the summery feel of the constantly changing percussion, the minimal repetition, the constant throwback to insidiously vaguely […]
a plug for something you really ought to think about attending if you live in or near Brisbane
Actually, it’s not so much a plug as a lazy-ass link. But Eternal Soundcheck has long been one of my favourite blogs – and a primary motivation behind wanting to create Collapse Board – and, uh, I don’t know. Matt shoots intriguing video documents of Brisbane’s DIY underbelly, the sort of stuff that rarely gets written […]
Song of the day – 178: The Gories
As Tim Footman writes, “It’s like every track on Nuggets being played at the same time”. There’s a whisper that the Gories have been playing shows again over the past year. I refuse to believe that they could do anything but totally rule. Not with Peg still on drums. (Photography: Steve Shaw)
