Posts by Mike O'Connell
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Hard News: Music: The year the…, in reply to Jeremy Andrew,
Oh yes, Spinal Tap... try this, one louder! Joseph Spence and Santa Claus is comin' to Town.
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Some oldies but goodies tucked away in these six alternative Christmas songs including Laibach's wintry take on Across the Universe.from 1988. Enjoy!
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How about this, The Twelve Days of Christmas a la Twin Peaks cast - it's all there, talking logs, donuts, coffee ...oh, and that body!
BTW Twin Peaks is set to return in 2017
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and a bunch of others I can’t remember right now.
what, no Feelers?!... only joking ... how about Hopetoun Brown's 'Burning Fuse' (and a couple of brilliant live shows to boot), Silicon's 'Personal Computer' and Delaney Davidson's up-tempo 'Lucky Guy' for starters.
Can't wait for the Nadia Reid and Anthonie Tonnon shows in March. Must buy the former and give the latter another coupla blasts this weekend. Thx for reminder :-)
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On the heels of the excellent Great Australian Album series which emerged earlier this year and included Go-Between's' 16 Lovers Lane and The Saint's I'm Stranded is this one-off ABC/Screen Queensland doco, out about a month back, with another take of the Saints - the Stranded Documentary 2015:
Nicely inter-spliced with footage showing up the villainous Queensland politics of Joh Bjelke-Petersen and thuggish tactics of his constabulary. Even half the Dead Kennedys experienced the force of the latter, spending a night in a Brisbane klink. -
Might look better like this...
And UMO's new vid for Necessary Evil, way cool! -
You may also care to note that Unknown Mortal Orchestra play the St James the following night
That must be a pre-tour show? I hope the St James can be saved a là our Theatre Royal. Would love to have seen UMO gracing that venue but they're at the Foundry - bit of a student barn but considering what we have just now for venues that size, better than nothing.
Here's a UMO taster with a bit of a difference - Guitar Power 2015 ep. 1 featuring Ruban Nielson … Ruban Nielson showing a bit of guitar wizardry on his Jag-Stang in conversation with Alain Johannes - maybe a hint of where Ruban is heading next with an intriguing three minute jam between the pair to close things off.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Back to a…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Touché! Local, local, knowledge is invaluable. Thx for that link too.
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An update on the Allen Street 'Rock Club' venue. Now seems to be called 'Allen Street Live". Name change is cosmetic as venue remains closed. All a bit messy.
Churchill's in Sydenham in the meantime is back and is picking up many of the bookings that were going to Allen St. It had been operating the last year as the awfully named Club Tavern.
Also, the historic New City Hotel on cnr of Bath St and Colombo St is making its entrance as a live venue option on Dec 19. First act up not exactly inspiring - Rage Against the Machine "tribute" anyone? Let's wait and see what further evolves. I don't ever recall it as a live venue in the past.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Back to a…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Aye, I saw that Ian... at least the Auricle next door and the Institution across the way remain viable. Fingers crossed we don't lose anything else in this part of town.
The Darkroom ownership has definitely changed. I suspect it was having troubles a couple of months back as things like tap craft beer wasn't available week after week and the weekly Brian Luv quizzes have now become much less frequent.
This said, it's now being run in a 'more business-like manner' and looks to be on sturdy ground. Still as friendly and welcoming as ever. Another change is that there are pretty well no free gigs anymore. The Darkroom Gallery next door has a higher door charge for the boutique (usually touring) gigs (typically $20-30) while entry to the the Darkroom is usually no more than $15. I understand Marcus from Minisnap runs the bar now.
BTW I had thought the Allen Street Rock Club closed (with some gigs diverted to the Foundry) but it is still showing up as venue for e.g. the Exploited this week. Not sure what's going on there?