Photo credit: Katja Liebing – Blue Moon Photography Friday night at The Metro was an intimate affair between a man and a woman. Two Perth singer-songwriters cracked open the guitar cases and played a set of personal and stripped-back songs with little more than an impressive stage set for company. Felicity Groom performed with just…
Month: April 2012
EP REVIEW: THE CAIROS – COLOURS LIKE FEATURES
The quality of the artists from Brisbane – both past and present – has often lead people to declare that there’s something in the water up north. But I like to think that acts like DZ Deathrays, Last Dinosaurs and now, The Cairos have simply had a lot of fun in the tropical sun. With…
FILM REVIEW: THE LADY
Earlier this year cinemagoers were treated to a look at life in Maggie’s farm in The Iron Lady. Now it is time for an intimate portrait of The Steel Orchid. The Lady tells the story of the Burmese-English political activist, human rights advocate and political prisoner, Aung San Suu Kyi. Known to her supporters as Daw or The Lady,…
ALBUM REVIEW: SETH LAKEMAN – TALES FROM THE BARREL HOUSE
Life is often a hard road. There’s the one less travelled, the hard-knock life and the first train to Strugglesville. English troubadour, Seth Lakeman sounds like he’s gone down all of these and even more at the humble age of 35. However, this could have been achieved by living vicariously through others and their interesting…
ALBUM REVIEW: DAWES – NOTHING IS WRONG
American quartet, Dawes have shown that nothing is wrong with a journey through the past. They won over a score of fans with their nostalgia-tinged debut, North Hills and now with album number two they continue to wear the sounds of Laurel Canyon and the influences of artists like Crosby, Stills and Nash and Neil…
LIVE REVIEW: LAST DINOSAURS, MILLIONS & THE GRISWOLDS @ OXFORD ART FACTORY (21.04.2012)
Forget Gorillaz and their Feel Good Inc. If there was an institution offering good times with super happy fun friends then Saturday’s show at Oxford Art Factory was where it was at. With three young, talented, homegrown and handsome bands on the bill to boot what more could you really ask for? The Griswolds opened to a decent-sized…
EP REVIEW: MAGIC BONES – SELF-TITLED
Amid the bust-ups, break-ups and the odd lacklustre album, today’s rock fans are entitled to scratch their heads and ask – just like B.R.M.C – “Whatever happened to my rock ‘n’ roll?” Plus, that’s not even considering the multitude of other groups that – like the odd, doomed relationship – are “on a break”. But…
ALBUM REVIEW: THE MAGNETIC FIELDS – LOVE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
Like wine, most people mature with age. And then there’s The Magnetic Fields. The group’s tenth album, Love At The Bottom Of The Sea includes 15 of the most goofy and vibrant indie pop ditties, it’s essentially music that sounds like it was produced by a bunch of kids half the age of the American…
FILM REVIEW: CAFÉ DE FLORE
Café de Flore is a labour of love by writer/director Jean-Marc Valee (C.R.A.Z.Y). It is an account of two very different love stories – tales separated by different characters, countries and time periods. In spite of all this, an overarching feeling of loss, an intense rawness and a bittersweet tension link the two parts together….
LIVE REVIEW: CROSBY, STILLS & NASH @ HORDERN PAVILION (04.04.2012)
Photo credit: Henry Diltz Here is a live review I wrote about the recent Crosby, Stills & Nash show as part of the Origin Blogger Competition in conjunction with Vivid Live Sydney. You could only write a 100-word review so it’s very short, but here goes: LIVE REVIEW: CROSBY, STILLS & NASH @ HORDERN PAVILION…
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