Category: Live Photos
GIG PICS: JAMIE HUTCHINGS & HIS IMAGINARY CHOIR
REVIEW: VIVIAN GIRLS @ Spectrum, Sydney (25/09/09)
Hype can be a poison arrow sometimes with excess praise heaped on a band by high profile dictators of taste. In the case of Vivian Girls, their rise to fame has polarised many. Some people love their hazy droning jangle pop that filters detuned girl-group harmonies through garage rock and indie while others dismiss them as tuneless, repetitive and atonal. Their Australian tour gave us … Continue reading REVIEW: VIVIAN GIRLS @ Spectrum, Sydney (25/09/09)
GIG PICS: THE BATS + Crayon Fields @ Hopetoun, Sydney (08/08/09)
The Bats played a stellar set at the Hopetoun on Saturday night, supported by a stripped down Songs and The Crayon Fields. The Crayon Fields had some nice guitar pop moments; a few 60s influences mingling with some 80s synths and melodies and a tasty cover of Fred Neil’s Everybody’s Talkin’. The Bats set featured new tracks from the recently released Guilty Office as well … Continue reading GIG PICS: THE BATS + Crayon Fields @ Hopetoun, Sydney (08/08/09)
GIG PICS: JANE’S ADDICTION
There are thousands of budding concert photographers out there but only a handful of exceptional ones. I’d include Andrew Blake in that category. Check out his recent shots of Jane’s Addiction on their 2009 tour… JANE’S ADDICTION PHOTOS Continue reading GIG PICS: JANE’S ADDICTION
REVIEW: JACK LADDER @ The Annandale Hotel (28/06/09)
Written for FasterLouder. Thanks to Antony McDonald for some great photos. Sunday night gigs at the Annandale are a great way to start the new week. Seeing three bands and being home by 10pm is a pretty good night out and Jack Ladder even made the tongue-in-cheek comment about not leaving the stage before the encore to save time so we could catch the end … Continue reading REVIEW: JACK LADDER @ The Annandale Hotel (28/06/09)
REVIEW: FLIPPER @ Manning Bar 13/06/09
Reunion tours are a common occurrence these days and for the most part they are performed by commercially successful bands trading on nostalgia. In that context it was a pleasant surprise to see Flipper hit Australian shores to remind people of their standing as one of the true originators of US punk and deliver what they themselves called a “true Flipper show”. Perhaps the biggest disappointment … Continue reading REVIEW: FLIPPER @ Manning Bar 13/06/09
REVIEW: PITCH BLACK live @ Spectrum
DS was at the Pitch Black show in Sydney last week and had its mind and body moved… …As each track evolved and lifted the tempo, the grinning cyber punk Free worked frantically around his midi controller and samplers as if he was trying to keep up with the music. Hodgson, expressionless, worked studiously next to him, physically leaning into and tweaking the mixer knobs … Continue reading REVIEW: PITCH BLACK live @ Spectrum
REVIEW: WITCH HATS @ Annandale Hotel
with The Laurels, Songs + Dead Farmers, 25th April 2009 … Kris Buscombe’s voice ranges from a Mark E Smith rant to a Fugazi scream and it plays a big part in their masterful display of discordant melody. Witch Hat succeed because they can bludgeon and caress you and that magic mix is what makes bruised music beautiful. read the full review over at FasterLouder… Continue reading REVIEW: WITCH HATS @ Annandale Hotel
LIVE REVIEW: Evan Dando @ Annandale Hotel, Sydney 05/04/09
written by Chris Familton Australia holds a special place in the heart of Evan Dando with our warm weather, surfing lifestyle and the fact that Australians Tom Morgan and Nic Dalton have both been members of The Lemonheads. It seems the feeling is mutual as he can still sell out the Annandale on a sunday afternoon, primarily playing solo and acoustic. Support came from locals … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Evan Dando @ Annandale Hotel, Sydney 05/04/09
Review: V Festival @ Centennial Park, Sydney
The V Festival drew criticism this year from many people who saw it as having a weak lineup. Not weak in terms of the popularity of the bands in a commercial sense but more in the musical quality of the headlining acts. There was definitely an anglophile slant to the lineup this year with many of the bands being darlings of the middle of the … Continue reading Review: V Festival @ Centennial Park, Sydney
REVIEW: BLACK MOUNTAIN Live
Annandale Hotel, Sydney, NSW 5th February, 2009 Canada’s Black Mountain are a band of many peaks and valleys and they brought their retro psych rock sound to the Annandale for the second of two packed nights. On the back of last year’s In The Future they hypnotised the audience with a big, bold and at times deafening set that covered all corners of their music. … Continue reading REVIEW: BLACK MOUNTAIN Live
Doubtful Sounds 