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
written by Chris Familton Purple Sneakers’ recent move into gig nights showed they aren’t content to rely on just the pulling power of indie DJs and a nightclub atmosphere. It reconfirms their commitment to live music and with their Last Night event they’ve been showcasing some of the best local and international acts making waves in indiedom. Bleeding Knees Club have been building a reputation … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Die! Die! Die! @ The Gaelic, Sydney (01/04/11)
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
Wow, this one came out of nowhere but damn it is a great track. Featuring the combined talents of Jon Toogood (Shihad), Shayne Carter (Dimmer, Straitjacket Fits), Gary Sullivan (JPSE, Dimmer) and Ladi 6 the song is like some futuristic sci-fi soul track with some heavy rhythmic mood and a mind altering guitar riff courtesy of Carter that gives it some real bite. The track … Continue reading VIDEO: The Adults | Nothing To Lose
Here are a few of the shots from the great Die! Die! Die! / Bleeding Knees Club gig down at Last Night on Friday. Review will be up soon… For more shots see our Flickr page. Continue reading PHOTOS: Die! Die! Die!/Bleeding Knees Club @ The Gaelic (01/04/11)
The new Boris album (well, one of a few …) Heavy Rocks is set to drop on May 24th and the first track off it has hit the blogosphere… take a listen/download Riot Sugar featuring Ian Astbury on backing vocals. Boris… such a fucking great band! MP3: Boris | Riot Sugar Continue reading MP3: Boris | Riot Sugar – from the new album Heavy Rocks….
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!
written by Chris Familton With recent tours from The Bats and The Verlaines, the prominence of 80s NZ bands has never been higher but the act many have been waiting for is of course The Clean – that seminal Velvets/krautrock/psych trio that pretty much kickstarted the NZ scene in the late 70s. San Francisco’s Sonny & The Sunsets opened proceedings with a fun and artful … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: The Clean @ Factory Theatre, Sydney (09/03/11)
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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