In a move which will have some music promoters up in arms, not to mention students decrying the woes of a conservative swing of the moral pendulum, The Manning Bar in Sydney University, once host of events such as 'Club Lush', 'The Rubber Ball', and bands such as 'Deathstars' and 'Necro', will be changing their entertainment policy to reflect a less-edgey clientel. Also in their proposed operation
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On Friday night, I took off home to relax (nice to have an early-ending week because of this job, though that may change) and then getting ready for 'Panic At The Disco' at Acer Arena. Now, I have to note that my experience with 'Panic At The Disco' is small - but I like their retro-baroque-circus-pop approach, at least from the few tracks that I have heard (and clips I have seen). I'm the sort of
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We got to Fox Studios at about 7:30pm, briefly catching up with Nerdi, DomesticMouse and Bad Pauly before heading into The Hordern to catch the support band, Reguritator.Barbs hadn't seen them live before (I had, at Big Day Out) and so I knew what to expect. Even with a replacement drummer on the night, who was more than fitting into the bands sound, they were good, although the audience seemed a
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Last Saturday night was a very pleasant dinner at The Annandale with Miss Kate, Brian, and Barbara before heading into the Band-Room to see Kate Miller-Heidke. I'm getting ingo the deplorable habit of not seeing support bands unless I know them - and this is something I think I should get out of the habit of doing. Why? Well how else can you tell if you like 'new' music if you just go and see the
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Now some people may not know Porcupine Tree, as progressive Rock is not something you hear a lot about these days (along with the term 'concept albums'). My first advice is to go and listen to some tracks and be entranced... or if you want some history listen to Tangerine Dream to begin with as you go off to sleep one night. Then you'll be ready for something a little more epic, perhaps heavier, l
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The Forum is a venue I always associate with dance parties and more of your 3D World set, and the 3 hire cars which pulled up in front of our cab almost proved that by disgorging Eve and 50 Cent who were (along with Juliette Lewis) performing at the MTV Awards the following night. I was more than pleased to note that we had only missed the support band (although I don't know them, and don't kno...
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Now I have heard SNOG before and they're pretty much a done deal (what you see is what you get - and that is a VERY good thuing let me tell you). Let's start with the supports (The Inflatable Voodoo Dolls and Bleepin' J Squawkins) were more interesting inasmuch as seeing how far they have come along since they started play a few years ago. The IVD are technically very damned good - but let's fa...
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Last Wednesday, I was fortunate enough to see Henry Rollins in his (do not say the words) Spoken Word performance 'Provoked'. To say that I was in awe is somewhat of an understatement. Rollins has such a wealth of material to draw on with a ration of 25% research Vs 90% experience, yes that is not a typo. He reads, he questions, he hops on a plane and goes to Pakistan, you know - little things lik
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Now the weird thing about Hermann's is that it's smaller than it looks (and smaller than it photographs for that matter). It has an OK sound for a small room, and the bar prices are not over-exorbitant. We got there after the first band had finished (which was a shame because the name of the first band - 'Day Of The Meerkat' - had me more than interested in seeing what they were like. Alas that...
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Last weekend I was fortunate enough to catch The Red Paintings at The Factory, for their 'We Belong In The Sea Tour'. Now the first time I saw them was when they were supporting The Dresden Dolls at the UNSW Roundhouse and I was immediately taken in by the production they put on. I thought they were absolutely stunning then (it was the 'Destroy All Robots Tour'). I really like a band which puts on
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