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SmokinDan posted:Huge fan. Really wish they'd go back to pure instrumental but I still liked Church with No Magic. Totally agree. Have you ever heard any Triosk? Experimental jazz band that the Pike brothers were in before Pivot/PVT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV-05sGb48I
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Aussie music thread hey? I've listened to a fair bit of that. Oldest Aussie band I listen to is Master's Apprentice. Trippy brand, did everything from rock: Rock and Roll: Undecided http://youtu.be/JnMytzzcRGI Early 'Heavy Metal': Easy To Lie http://youtu.be/VqJ9tXvjDT0 Future Of Our Nation http://youtu.be/d26ZPnSsP2o Psychedelic: Elevator Driver http://youtu.be/llQS4IldWec Strange strange band. Most of the main Aussie bands have already been mentioned already. Still love the Angels, phenonimal performance at La Trobe university in 1979, in fact I bought the DVD/CD from JB hifi last week for $18 because I kept listening to it on youtube at least once per week. My favourite front men are Nick Cave (Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Grinderman), and Tex Perkins (Beasts Of Bourbon, The Cruel Sea, Tex, Don & Charlie) In the 1990s I mainly listened to Custard, You Am I, and Mark of Cain. Tumbleweed (The 'weed from the 'gong). Probably heaps of others but they're all on CDs boxed away, not on my PC. Later bands already mentioned like Grinspoon, Frenzal Rhomb I don't mind. The OP mentioned The Saints, but no one else has I think, or Ed Keupper. "Know Your Product" (I'm) Stranded was mentioned in the OP, here it is as it needs mentioning again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-GueNOKolo I don't really listen to anything new, that's the main reason why I'm reading this thread, to hear new stuff. Probably the last things I heard was 5 years ago was Little Birdy (strange captivating voice for me), http://youtu.be/auUnV45kTqw and maybe Clare Bowditch and some others on the Split Enz/Crowded House tribute CD "She Will Have Here Way". Oh, and Paul Kelly, worth a mention because his may have been one of the last CDs I bought. I don't have a CD player except for my PC, and copy protection on his CD meant I couldn't even play it (easily that is), so I swore off buying them because of that poo poo. edit: How the hell can I turn off embedding youtube? I didn't want to embed them all. Nevermind, I just use the youtube share link rather than the normal copy/paste URL 2nd edit: I forgot Machine Gun Fellatio, (so did everyone else). I have the album Bring it On! and I still crank up "100 Fresh Disciples" Late mentions, The Triffids (Everyone knows "Wide Open Road"), The Celibate Rifles (maybe "Tick Tock" or "Bill Bonney Regrets"?) Fo3 fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Nov 20, 2012 |
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Perry Keyes is playing in Sydney tonight. He's our Springsteen, singing about rugby games and heroin addicts in Kings Cross with empathy and wit. He's being supported by Loene Carmen, who's amazing in her own right and is also the mother of a member of Bridezilla. The Spazzys have a new album out, and it's fun. They're such an awesome band. Count Chocula fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Nov 26, 2012 |
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I feel bad resurrecting this thread from near death, but I think Australian music is pretty overlooked, even in Australia, so here's a bunch of bands and singer/songwriters that I like. Adelaide Ben David From my hometown, and definitely one of my favourites from Australia. From 'Let's Elope' EP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsR1h7-Xkms Fear of Heights (more on his Facebook) I've seen a whole loving lot of Ben David, because he seems to be constantly touring Australia. Some of the best times I've had at a live show have been at a Ben David show, crammed into a tiny room with everyone singing every word. Couldn't ask for a better atmosphere. The Hard Aches Formerly Ben David & the Banned. Four piece band, this time with electric guitars and stuff, gets pretty raucous. They played a small stage at Big Day Out a few years back and tour pretty regularly. From Brothers & Blisters EP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_BE3OWxIE8 Sides (more at Facebook) They have a new EP, which is a split with Melbourne band Foxtrot coming out early February. Melbourne Melbourne is some kind of music paradise because so much good poo poo comes out of Melbourne. Foxtrot Unfortunately they don't have any tracks on YouTube, but they do on their BandPage. The Shadow League They don't have any YouTube linkable tracks either, but they have a good portion of their album Ghosts in Our Sails on their BandPage. I actually have a feeling they have a download link to their whole album on there somewhere too. Wil Wagner / The Smith Street Band Melbourne staples The Smith Street Band apparently just played a show with punk legends Against Me! and are about to embark on the Young Drunks tour with Bomb the Music Industry. Here's Wil singing on a roof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN2omslwzdk It feels pretty criminal stopping there, because I said, Melbourne is really putting out. Sydney March of the Real Fly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM4zuqda0ac These guys are rad as hell and put on a crazy good time show. They have a new track available and it is available on BandCamp along with their earlier self-titled EP and some older stuff. Well, it's 3am and I can't be bothered writing anything else at the moment, I'll probably come back and edit this a little because there's more from Sydney and Tasmania to post about. I really love Australian music, I guess. Thanks for reading my effort post.
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Any bets for who'll win hottest 100? I hope there's some slightly unexpected stuff in there, like Frenzal or something. I've been neglecting my triple J.Leercore posted:Melbourne Going to this gig for my birthday hopefully, should rule. Anyway more cool poo poo. Clowns These guys went to the same school as me, so my opinion might be kind of off, but they've been getting a little bit of airplay. It't fairly standard but well executed harcore punk/thrash. Nice and heavy stuff. Here's a shonky recording from a gig they did in Indonesiahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJhJBJ2e5Gk but listen to the bandcamp thing for sound quality. The Cactus Channel hasn't been mentioned yet for some reason, which is odd considering how popular they're getting. It's a ten piece funk instrumental band with a raw groovy sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt_hEQiQUXE
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Psalmanazar posted:Any bets for who'll win hottest 100? I hope there's some slightly unexpected stuff in there, like Frenzal or something. I've been neglecting my triple J. Thrift Shop will be number 1 I reckon, or at least in the top 3
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is it possible that with enough force you could rig it? like get safety dance as number one or something?
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screaden posted:Thrift Shop will be number 1 I reckon, or at least in the top 3 I think Little Talks will take out the number 1 spot, it has a much wider appeal and seems more timeless than Thrift Shop which, while being incredibly popular, is reliant on the "hipster" sort of ideal, possibly even permanently dating itself to this era in the same way that Bee Gees immediately conjure up images of the 70's etcetera. There is a site called the warmest 100 which has scoured social media for posted predictions and Thrift Shop took number 1 on that but I think the main audience for the song are the exact type of people to actually use social media in that manner anyway and won't account for the aging JJJ audience (like myself) that don't engage in facebook shenanigans but still vote in the countdown. TS will get into the top 5, below Of Monsters and Men, Tame Impala, the Rubens and possibly Two Door Cinema Club.* There have been rumours that when Spiderbait got voted into #1 way back in the mid 90s it was only because their managers or whatever had a massive email campaign to inflate the chart position. It would probably still be possible to help out a certain track in the charts by voting tons of times with unique email addresses but it would be a lot of work and they would probably clue in pretty quickly if a song with little airplay and minimal requests started rapidly climbing the tallied votes. JJJ would have a massive database of requested songs and even text messages sent in mid track (the announcers read them out all the time) that they could scan through to get a fair idea of what will get the higher positions and if Safety Dance isn't one of them then they could quietly quash the song back into obscurity. The probably don't want another repeat of 1998 where Pretty Fly for a White Guy got voted to number one and was then practically never played or mentioned again, not even making it onto the yearly compilation cd. Edit: *These turned out be hilariously inaccurate predictions. Gym Leader Barack fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Jan 27, 2013 |
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RandomCheese posted:I think Little Talks will take out the number 1 spot, it has a much wider appeal and seems more timeless than Thrift Shop which, while being incredibly popular, is reliant on the "hipster" sort of ideal, possibly even permanently dating itself to this era in the same way that Bee Gees immediately conjure up images of the 70's etcetera. Oops. triple j is all about what you described away Edit: Haha, just noticed your edit
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LFist crosspost from Auspol thread. Get some David Thrussel into ya. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tNPTFjkRi4
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RandomCheese posted:I think Little Talks will take out the number 1 spot, it has a much wider appeal and seems more timeless than Thrift Shop which, while being incredibly popular, is reliant on the "hipster" sort of ideal, possibly even permanently dating itself to this era in the same way that Bee Gees immediately conjure up images of the 70's etcetera. The top 10 from the Warmest 100 ended up being very accurate. A couple of songs were in different positions but it was the same 10 songs as in the real top 10. The top 3 was exact.
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Without sounding like the hipster before hipsters - Triple J lost the plot over a decade ago, gimme Sandman, Choice Bro TAFE,204 Bell St. and more! Forgot about Dave from Dullachill (spelling - can't actually find it on a map)
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Humphreys posted:Without sounding like the hipster before hipsters - Triple J lost the plot over a decade ago, gimme Sandman, Choice Bro TAFE,204 Bell St. and more! Dulwich Hill
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There was an interview with Kingsmill in the West Australian one year and he said a record company generally tries to rig the votes at least once a year, the I.T dept catch many thousands of votes with the same I.P addresses etc and cut them out of the tally. I've always been suspicious of the Australian favorite band being much higher than anyone ever expected. "Big Jet Plane", "One Crowded Hour" ,"Buy Me a Pony". They just never seemed to be as big at the time of winning as so many other songs that were being played. Can't really see any reason for JJJ to rig the countdown though or any real evidence of it happening, especially when things like Silverchair losing by 13 votes happen.
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Spiderbait were pretty hot that year from memory, they would've done well regardless (did they even have email voting back then anyway?) I totally called Tame Impala to carve up the top 10 
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No surprises to see Flume get 4 entries, with 3 in the top 20... although i thought Sleepless or the Hyperparadise remix would crack the top 10 too. Interesting to see what happens with his career - he is real young to produce such a good and popular record. I don't think I know anyone personally that doesn't enjoy it. At Falls Festival, they put him in the tent (instead of the big open stage), criminally underestimating his popularity - the tent went waaaaaaay over capacity and they had to tell everyone to calm the gently caress down before he played. Great fun though.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/feb/08/nick-cave-push-sky-away-stream The new Nick Cave album is streaming on the Guardian website. I'm only a few songs into it, and while I'm not a huge fan of "We No Who U R", "Water's Edge" is really impressing me, and I loved "Jubilee Street". I'll have more thoughts on the album when I'm done, but so far it sounds like exactly the album that I would expect after 'Dig Lazarus, Dig' and "The Lyre of Orpheus".
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Hello, what's this? A music forum where people actually go to gigs? (As opposed to Mess+Noise who just complain about everything.) I'm from Melbourne and it would be quicker just to point you through to my website than mention what I have been going to see - http://photos.timchuma.com/ I did actually travel up to Sydney just for the Community Cup last year (got to see two gigs at the Vanguard before and after) http://photos.timchuma.com/gallery3/index.php/Sydney-Community-Cup-2012 For the past few years I have been the house photographer for a venue in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, it is an RSL Club that replaced their pokies with live music http://www.caravanmusic.com.au/ There are a lot of bands that I would like to recommend, but I have been seeing them for 10 years play around Melbourne so I would not being objectively recommending them. All Tomorrow's Parties - I'll be Your Mirror next week in Melbourne. There will be no hipsters left in the city that weekend. Pure Pop Records in St Kilda (http://www.purepop.com.au/) has been holding a "Classic Albums" series this summer. The Twoks (http://thetwoks.com/) did Rage Against the Machine's debut album on violin and drums, was well worth the standing ovation. The most recent one I have been to see was Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album done in a country style by two sisters (http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sideshow-Brides/195387480498843) Quite a few of the sessions are being recorded/videoed but not all of them. Tim Chuma fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Feb 9, 2013 |
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I'm heading down from Brisbane to shoot ATP; if anyone wants a weekend pass that I no longer need and can meet in Melbourne on the 15th/16th, I can sell it for $170 or so.
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One of the first bands I used to go see back in 2001 was a comedy/punk band called the Twits (http://twitsgivemetheshits.timchuma.com/), the local punk bands loved playing with them and watching them. They are currently on permanent hiatus due to one of the lead singers going back to live in England. Fred Negro was also a member of the band and still occasionally plays with his band the gently caress Fucks most famous for the song "Beer Sandwich" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxdKVrBczHM I only started going to the pub so I could try and get in Fred Negro's "PUB" strip that appears in Inpress each week. I have been in it quite a few times now even when I don't want to be. The Cosmic Psychos documentary should be good, I chipped in some money for it. They sold out three nights of shows at the Tote late last year. Their current drummer also plays with the band Chris Russell's Chicken Walk which is much different http://chrisrussellschickenwalk.com/ The Large Number 12s (http://www.thelarges.com.au/) are a pub band from Melbourne with fans who have seen them hundreds of times. When I first started seeing them I thought they played all originals but it turns out half their songs are covers and it just sounds like they are their own. They play Stones/Small Faces/Spencer P Jones/Maurice Frawley and their own stuff. One of the only bands I can sing along to as a lot of the audience is already singing as well. Wes and Horse from the band also play with the Clip Clop Club (country), Charlie Owen plays with heaps of other bands including the Divinyls (not much lately) and Cal on drums also plays around town a lot. They don't really play outside of Melbourne that much, but they are the one band I would recommend to someone out of town to see. Another one of the bands that I used to go see quite a bit was the band GIT (http://gitgroupie.timchuma.com/), more traditional country but they had a lot of musicians going to see them, which was how I go to know a lot of other bands and get into more genres than just punk and rock. Sarah and Suzannah are still playing in other bands and with each other. The Junes (http://www.myspace.com/thejunestunes), http://suzannahespie.com.au/, The Cartridge Family (with Rusty Rich ex Scared Weird Little Guys) https://www.facebook.com/theoriginalcartridgefamily I used to have a rule that I would only go to see a new band if they were playing with someone I knew, starting with two bands I ended up seeing hundreds this way. I don't even need it these days as there are usually two or three bands playing each night I could go see each night of the week, but that's Melbourne for you. The 20,000 people marching (http://photos.timchuma.com/SLAMRally/index.html) in the CBD due to the Tote closing was no accident, the community radio stations in Melbourne PBS/RRR/3CR/SYN and others have a lot to do with as they actually play local music as opposed to the more commercial stations who get around the local music quotes by playing stuff from the 70s and 80s. I first heard the band GIT above when they were on a show that was on RRR on Sunday arvo - most of the bands they have on usually have a gig straight after, Sunday is a good day to go out and see music. The Community Cup is one of the big events each year if you are even half way into music in Melbourne. I have been going for about 10 years now and went up to Sydney last year for their first one. Tim Rogers has passed the captaincy of the Rockdogs onto Dan Sultan. Paul Kelly is still the coach. One of the players on the Rockdogs broke their arm in the first two minutes of the cup last year so it is serious now. The "Megahertz" team is made up from people from the RRR/PBS/SYN and other music media. You Am I played a couple of years ago after the match. RRR BBQ Day is also a good day, is the first Sunday in December at Ceres Environmental Park. All the songs have been changed to be about meat or BBQs. They did try vegetarianism as the theme one year though. Kind of hard to explain, but you have to be there to experience it. The same person also organises the "Stopping All Stations Except East Richmond" gig that I have enjoyed the past two years which was specifically songs mentioning Melbourne suburbs and nothing else. Some more of the girl bands even though I get made fun of for going to see them: The Nymphs (http://www.hellonymphs.com/) Andrews Sisters' style four-part harmonies with matching dresses. Two of them are sisters and they do sometimes play as a three piece due to one of them also being in the Tiger and Me. The Rebelles (http://rebelles.com.au/) Phil Spector style wall of sounds 60s tunes with 15 lead singers and a 4 piece behind them. Mostly covers with some original songs. Play with a lot of SKA bands for some reason. Clairy Browne and the Bangin' Rackettes (http://clairybrowne.com/) Starting off as a party band back in 2008, this soul group has become very popular in a very short time. Recently toured with the Cat Empire in Europe and played half a dozen sold out shows in the USA (was more of a preview tour.) I do know two of the backing singers in the band. Very fashionable at the moment and also on stage (one of the members makes the costumes for them.) They play a bit with Sasquatch/Kira Puru and the Bruise/Stella Angelico and similar acts. Sweethearts (http://www.sweethearts.com.au/) A 40 piece soul high school band who play around the place but I have mostly seen them at festivals. Hard to get a venue big enough for them.
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So I just noticed today that The Drones (http://thedrones.com.au/) have a new album coming out in a month. I've been wondering what they've been up to for ages, so this is pretty exciting for me. The new song seems to be up to their standards, and the solo/bridge is pretty awesome. I haven't read the rest of this thread, but hopefully this isn't the first mention of this band, because they're incredibly good.
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TheIndividual posted:So I just noticed today that The Drones (http://thedrones.com.au/) have a new album coming out in a month. I've been wondering what they've been up to for ages, so this is pretty exciting for me. The new song seems to be up to their standards, and the solo/bridge is pretty awesome.
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Sooo happy for new Drones and Nick Cave. I haven't been that enamoured by what I've heard of Push the Sky Away but I know its a move from the bombast of his past few releases so I don't want to judge it too quickly, seeing him at the Opera House later this month should be fantastic. One project I want to raise or re-raise awareness of is Laura Imbruglia who if you only know the last name writes quirky little folk songs which are just wonderful. Just little things in the lyrics get in my head for days, like from Don't: The hunger only eats you When someone takes the cake I wish you weren't compelled to keep on Feeding that belly-ache Anyway she's now trying to raise some funding for her new album and its fancy packaging (last album was in the art style of a MAD magazine) and still hasn't quite made it to the minimum $5,000 so if you like what you hear please pre-order. http://www.pozible.com/project/13968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XnBIUnA7Y0 I know there's a still a bit of controversy with crowdfunding, I know that some raised eyebrows about Eskimo Joe raising pre-orders through Pozible of about 50k. AJ Maddah on his twitter ranted against them as selfish for doing it, but since he seems to not ever put any Australian bands in his tours to give them a proper income then its no wonder they're forced to raise startup capital themselves. Anyone else want to discuss how much they loving hate AJ Maddah but end up paying for a ticket to one of his concerts because c'mon its Sigur Ros? Anyway, I gave my $75 to The DC3 a while ago and received my digital goodies this week so I'm yet to have any bad experiences, I think its just an inevitability that hardcore fans will have to subsidise the cult bands they like with more startup capital than in the past, and since we're an island in the middle of nowhere we'll have to be doing it more often.
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Shunkymonky posted:I know there's a still a bit of controversy with crowdfunding, I know that some raised eyebrows about Eskimo Joe raising pre-orders through Pozible of about 50k. AJ Maddah on his twitter ranted against them as selfish for doing it, but since he seems to not ever put any Australian bands in his tours to give them a proper income then its no wonder they're forced to raise startup capital themselves. Anyone else want to discuss how much they loving hate AJ Maddah but end up paying for a ticket to one of his concerts because c'mon its Sigur Ros? A I used to be a of his festivals back when they were good value for money and put on bands that never would tour here anyway. What he's doing now is just a dick move the Australian music scene for touring and for promoting local music. Soundwave could've sold out with half the bands he's put on there, it's loving stupid now as well because half of the headliners clash so you're paying big money for bands that you can't even see. I think his business model is essentially running Soundwave festivals at just over cost price, trying to starve the Big Day Out by offering the bands more money to play his festival and then charging a ticket price that basically means people will either go to the Big Day Out or Soundwave but rarely both. There was no reason why those two festivals couldn't have co-existed. I don't think the Big Day Out has much legs left in it. It's a shame too, because the Big Day Out was such a well run event (yes the bogans loved to make life hard for you) that had local produce stages and usually was good value for money, the first few Soundwaves were so haphazardly managed that I thought they'd loose their operation license just on access to amenities and customer satisfaction.
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I would gladly pay $180 to see Metallica again, but not in the shitfest that is going to Soundwave 2013. poo poo I spent easily double that the last time they were here. I had a blast at the last one, but $180 is too much to see my favorite band from too far way unless I want to get heatstroke by arriving in the D at 11am. besides APC theres nothing else to justify putting up with expensive beer and emo dickheads everywhere. Big day out and soundwave compete for two different markets, essentially. BDO has been mostly loving awful though so its rightfully dying. unrelated but judging by my facebook feed, The Annandale is closing?
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It is indeed, although not immediately according to another message received from the operators. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/lastdrinks-iconic-annandale-hotel-in-receivership-20130211-2e7uy.html lastdrinks: iconic Annandale Hotel 'in receivership' Date February 11, 2013 - 4:12PM Megan Levy Breaking news reporter A private function was held at the hotel last night when guests were told the owners were expected to hand the keys to the receivers on Monday afternoon, Triple J is reporting. Leichhardt mayor Darcy Byrne said he had received similar reports on Monday, but vowed to fight to ensure that the hotel on Parramatta Road remained one of Sydney's iconic live music venues. "This is a real wake-up call to everyone who supports live music, that governments need to get their act into gear and do something to revive the industry before it's too late," he said. Advertisement "If these reports prove to be true, I for one will be doing everything I can to make sure that the Annandale remains a live music venue, including working urgently with the receivers. "So many Australian artists have had their start playing at the Annandale; its loss would be a body blow to young performers across Sydney." Palms and Straight Arrows guitarist Al Grigg tweeted a number of photographs from the Annandale on Sunday night, alongside the words: "Annandale Hotel #lastdrinks #rip #wtf." The Annandale was built in the 1930s and became a live music venue in the early 1980s. It has hosted hundreds of artists including Jet, the Living End, the Dandy Warhols, the Hoodoo Gurus, The Vines and Sarah Blasko. In 1998, new owners replaced the bands with poker machines. That was unsuccessful and when the Rule brothers, Matthew and Daniel, bought the hotel in 2000, they reinstated live music and scaled back the number of pokies to nine. But the hotel continued to be crippled by mounting costs. On the verge of closure in late 2011, the hotel launched a 'Buy-A-Brick' plan, which allowed fans to buy a stake in the venue. It raised more than $50,000. In recent years, the Annandale Hotel owners also had been locked in a lengthy stoush with Leichardt Municipal Council over late-night trading. The Land and Environment Court eventually found in favour of the Annandale, but Matt Rule said the legal battle, which was driven by noise complaints from a small group of residents, cost the pub more than $250,000. Relations with the council had improved dramatically, he said, but the episode almost put them out of business. Last year Peter Garrett, the renowned Midnight Oil singer and politician, urged baby boomers to come to the rescue of the pub, which he saw as a symbol of what was important about Australia's live music scene. "I really believe that this is a venue that's been one of the spiritual homes to Australian artists - in all genres and at all levels. It's a place where we [Midnight Oil] played, where [Jimmy] Barnes played, I mean just everybody basically has been on that stage. That sweaty carpet can tell a lot of great stories," he said. Cr Byrne, who has been an outspoken supporter of the hotel and live music, said he wanted "rock-and-roll not residential development". The Annandale’s financial problems come after the stalwart pub and rock venue the Sandringham Hotel in Newtown went into receivership last year, and Cr Byrne said that the difficulties experienced by both venues was evidence that the live music scene must be resuscitated. "In the coming weeks I will be seeking to reform council planning to encourage live music. Local government must promote, not prosecute, live music venues," he said. The Annandale Hotel and the Rule brothers have been contacted for comment. Tim Chuma fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Feb 11, 2013 |
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Leercore posted:I feel bad resurrecting this thread from near death, but I think Australian music is pretty overlooked, even in Australia, so here's a bunch of bands and singer/songwriters that I like. Laura Imbruglia and the Drones are great. http://themusic.com.au/news/all/2013/02/11/annandale-hotel-to-go-into-receivership/ - The Annandale might not be closing yet. It better be open for the 3 Bronx shows in April. I'm mad Soundwave haven't put Flogging Molly or hosed Up sideshows on in Sydney. I went to the Bed Wettin Bad Boys launch show and got their album. They sound like The Replacement. It's great. Count Chocula fucked around with this message at 08:28 on Feb 11, 2013 |
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Laserface posted:Big day out and soundwave compete for two different markets, essentially. BDO has been mostly loving awful though so its rightfully dying. I went to this years BDO at Sydney, it was good that they have a large amount of Australian bands on the lineup but I also think that their outlook of future doesn't look so good  . It would suck if it ends up collapsing and leave a huge hole in the summer music festival calendar. Although there was rumors that Livid festival was starting up again.
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How many does Maddah run though? Two? Three? I can only think of Harvest and Soundwave. I think there's another but can't remember its name. It's only a small percentage of the total number of festivals each year, and the rest are all fairly Australian music heavy (Pretty sure there's a law that Jon Butler has to play at least 60% of all music events, and if he can't make it, The Cat Empire or Blue King Brown have to fill in). I don't know about Soundwave, but I think Harvest is all the better for focusing on big international acts (well, "big" for the target audience he's going for) rather than slotting in Australians as a token gesture. I see plenty of Aussie bands at their own gigs, and Maddah's convinced bands I've wanted to see for years to come here, so I'm all for his way of doing things. Re: Sydney venues, I've also heard that Notes on King St is closing down. I've only been there once for Tim Freedman's album launch last year. He was boring but there was free piss so it was worth it.
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Creature posted:How many does Maddah run though? Two? Three? I can only think of Harvest and Soundwave. I think there's another but can't remember its name. It's only a small percentage of the total number of festivals each year, and the rest are all fairly Australian music heavy (Pretty sure there's a law that Jon Butler has to play at least 60% of all music events, and if he can't make it, The Cat Empire or Blue King Brown have to fill in). He's going to be a part of another festival co-coordinated by UNFD, a metal/hardcore label.
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Feb 13, 2013 10:35
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Notes is a nice venue, like a Vanguard where you can actually see the bands. Seen Perry Keyes there a few times, Royal Headache at Dig It Up, and some other good gigs. Andrew Denton was friends with Lubricated Goat. Wow. Count Chocula fucked around with this message at 10:52 on Feb 13, 2013 |
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Creature posted:How many does Maddah run though? Two? Three? I can only think of Harvest and Soundwave. I think there's another but can't remember its name. It's only a small percentage of the total number of festivals each year, and the rest are all fairly Australian music heavy (Pretty sure there's a law that Jon Butler has to play at least 60% of all music events, and if he can't make it, The Cat Empire or Blue King Brown have to fill in). I'm feeling old because I remember the classic festival filler bands that you saw a few times a year without ever actually making an effort to go and see bands like; Spiderbait, Grinspoon, The Living End, Frenzal Rhomb, Bodyjar, Shihad (NZ counts right?). Harvest, Soundwave and whatever else he's promoting at the time, (bit of a derail but you can't really chat about festivals on Faster Louder without getting flamed). Do you guys like his approach to booking so many acts on a single festival? To me it just adds extra cost without actually gaining anything because you can't see what's on 7 stages at the same time. My favorite festivals were always the single stage ones we had in Perth (Rockit), it was cheaper than if the headliner was going to play an arena and you got to see a days entertainment for no extra cost. That was before we got a decent indoor stadium though so pretty much all big gigs were outside, wouldn't really work if we had Melbourne's weather.
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Feb 13, 2013 13:15
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No love for Six Ft Hick? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79A10dFwvyo Haven't seen them for a while though Circa 2007    I missed seeing them in the front bar of the old Greyhound Hotel, heard it was an excellent gig. As were a lot of the shows there. There are some funny bands from Brisbane, have not been up there to see them though. Also the infamous "Shed 5" venue on the Gold Coast back blocks where everyone seemed to be having sex and getting drunk I have been told (was not during schoolies was a punk shed.) Vaginabillies - yes, this happened 
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Ecstatic posted:I'm feeling old because I remember the classic festival filler bands that you saw a few times a year without ever actually making an effort to go and see bands like; Spiderbait, Grinspoon, The Living End, Frenzal Rhomb, Bodyjar, Shihad (NZ counts right?). It's not a real festival unless The Living End or Hilltop Hoods are in the lineup.
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Feb 14, 2013 01:11
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Shunkymonky posted:Sooo happy for new Drones and Nick Cave. I haven't been that enamoured by what I've heard of Push the Sky Away but I know its a move from the bombast of his past few releases so I don't want to judge it too quickly, seeing him at the Opera House later this month should be fantastic. I've been listening to Push the Sky Away a poo poo ton since I got my copy, and I really think Higgs Boson Blues is the best song he's written in years. The rest of the album is pretty great too, though quite unlike anything else he's ever done. I've been doing my best to describe it, and I'll I've managed to come up with is "The Bad Seeds of "The Lyre of Orpheus" do a Grinderman album.
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There's not enough The Mark of Cain love going on in here, especially considering they just released their first album in 11 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0v32-U13vA John Stanier (Helmet, Battles, Tomahawk) is on drums which makes a lot of sense because Helmet is basically the same thing as TMOC. Oh, and here's a few heavy metal bands not listed yet: Be'lekor - Melodic Death Metal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQWjcooDhhk Ouroboros - Technical Death Metal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Y8jOXLL0E Mortal Sin - Thrash Metal (when they are not broken up *sigh*) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKo3SoPwpgQ 02-6611-0142-1 posted:Ruins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_s--O7HrIg I've been looking for some good black metal, so thanks! Anarchist Mae fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Feb 17, 2013 |
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Smith Street are ridiculously tight. Count Choc, did you see them at the Annandale?
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