Category: Interviews

Electronica, Experimental, Funk, Hip Hop, Indie Rock, Interviews

INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Butcher Blades

Melbourne’s tropical filmic electro popsters Butcher Blades are headlining this week’s Last Night event down at The Gaelic in Sydney. A kaleidoscopic evening is bound to occur – of which you can audibly sample on their MySpace page linked below. We threw some question marks at them and these were their colourful responses… INTERVIEW Do any of you have any pre-gig rituals? Quoting every one of … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Butcher Blades

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Guitar Rock, Indie Rock, Interviews, Post-Punk

INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Chicks Who Love Guns

Chicks Who Love Guns have the headline honours down at The Gaelic this Friday for Purple Sneakers’ Last Night. I’ve been down there the last two weeks and the place has been going off to the likes of Die! Die! Die! and Parades. This week there will be a damn sight more punk and less indie. In a live review last year I described CHLG … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Chicks Who Love Guns

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INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Parades

This week it is the sparkling sounds of Parades that head up Purple Sneakers’ Last Night down at The Gaelic. They’ll be launching their new single Water Stories and alongside them you can catch the usual indie DJs plus Little Scout down the highway from Brissy. Parades are doing big things and garnering a bunch of good press for their forward thinking indie sound. We … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Parades

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Indie Rock, Interviews, Post-Punk

INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Die! Die! Die!

Die! Die! Die! grace/destroy the stage at the Gaelic this friday night as the headliners of this week’s Purple Sneakers Presents: Last Night shindig. The band has been touring non-stop since the release of their last album Form and are set to head straight to the USA after Sydney shows this week. Catch them if at all possible as they are an insanely great live … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Die! Die! Die!

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Indie Rock, Interviews, Pop, Post-Punk

INTERVIEW: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

written by Chris Familton Ahead of the release of their new album ‘Belong’ we revisit the interview I did with frontman Kip Berman late 2009… The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart are a band that don’t hide from their influences. From the angst ridden moniker to their jangly 80s indie pop songs they appear as a band from another time. This of course is … Continue reading INTERVIEW: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

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Indie Rock, Interviews

INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Cuthbert

25th March…Purple Sneakers Presents… Last Night… Cuthbert… Metals & Owl Eyes… sounding pretty good huh? We sat down (virtually) with the ex Nightwalker and subjected him to our Before Last Night interrogation. He comes across as a pretty fascinating and engaging guy and someone who can rock a good full-body beard – here’s what he had to say… INTERVIEW: Do any of you have any … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Cuthbert

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Garage Rock, Guitar Rock, Indie Rock, Interviews, Post-Punk

INTERVIEW: Anna Calvi

A TELECASTER-WIELDING SONGSTRESS ANNOUNCES HER ARRIVAL WITH AN ALBUM SOAKED IN CRITICAL ACCLAIM. CHRIS FAMILTON INTRODUCES US TO ANNA CALVI. Anna Calvi isn’t a name that many here in Australia may be familiar with but in Europe her debut self-titled album has received widespread acclaim and the tag of one the most promising new artists to emerge in recent times. Calvi indeed possesses a voice … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Anna Calvi

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Indie Rock, Interviews, MP3, Post-Punk

INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Young Revelry

This week’s Last Night features Perth kids Young Revelry (plus Radio Star) who are coming off a big 2010 where they released their debut EP You And I and scored some sweet support slots with the likes of Shihad and Yves Klen Blue. The lead single from the EP is a catchy as hell post punk tune with faint echoes of The Wedding Present and … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Young Revelry

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Garage Rock, Guitar Rock, Interviews, Psych

Iggy & The Stooges: An Interview with James Williamson

When Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton passed away in January 2009 many feared that was the end of the line for the proto-punk band who had formed 42 years earlier. History though, has a way of repeating itself and as happened in 1970, James Williamson returned to the fold, bringing with him the chance for fans to see and hear songs from the Raw Power album … Continue reading Iggy & The Stooges: An Interview with James Williamson

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INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Megastick Fanfare

Megastick Fanfare unleash their indietronica on Last Night this Friday at The Gaelic. They’ll be playing live alongside MNDR from the USA so it is bound to be a night of rhythm and melody. Megastick Fanfare’s Sam Goldsmith took a run at DS’ Q+A and here’s what he had to say… 1. Do any of you have any pre-gig rituals? Occasionally we … 2. What … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Megastick Fanfare

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INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Eagle & The Worm

Melbourne’s Eagle And The Worm are playing this Friday’s Before Last Night thang with Sydney’s We Say Bamboulee and Brisbane’s Ball Park Music. It promises to be a tri-state indie pop love-fest so get on your boat shoes and slide on down to The Gaelic. Before you do that check out the chat we had with Eagle And The Worm’s Jarrad Brown – a man … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Before Last Night | Eagle & The Worm

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Electronica, Interviews, Post-Punk

INTERVIEW: Before Last Night…

Purple Sneakers are currently running their weekly Last Night at The Gaelic and we’re taking the opportunity to hook up with one of the headliners each week for a quick chat. This week it is those Brisbane miscreants DZ Deathrays who will be performing alongside King Cannons, DJs from Red Riders, Jane Gazzo and of course the Purple Sneakers DJs… Do any of you have any … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Before Last Night…

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