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27/12/08 Public Enemy The Metro Flav stuck in New York due to snow. Griff and Brother James denied visas. A two-hour delay while the DJ from Bliss N Eso desperately keeps running offstage to see if he can stop playing … Continue reading →

20/12/08 Darren Hanlon St Stephens, Newtown Support dude for this churchbound Christmas show was a mountain of a dude called Oliver Mann, who had a remarkable, resonant, sonorous voice that needed a much better showcase than rumbling over his very … Continue reading →

13/12/08 Hercules & Love Affair/The Whitest Boy Alive Hordern Pavilion The GFC Is Affecting Australian Festivals, Part III of XXVIII It’s hard to say if it was overreaching to try and follow a Daft Punk stadium tour by using the … Continue reading →

12/12/08 Guy Pratt Fusebox Theatre, The Factory It’s probably possible to be a London punk-loving kid who joined Icehouse as a teenager in time for their first big homeland tour, has played sessions for Madonna and Michael Jackson, been drug … Continue reading →

6/12/08 The Mountain Goats Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle The first-ever Antipodean jaunt for a drum-equipped Goats was meant to happen some months ago, but got bumped for personal reasons; when the rescheduled version ended up having an extra show three hours … Continue reading →

30/11/08 Kraftwerk, The Orb, The Legion Of Trance Snoozers Hordern Pavilion, RHI, a car park The GFC Is Affecting Australian Festivals, Part II of XXVIII This was an attempt to launch the decade-plus old Global Gathering festibrand as an instant … Continue reading →

28/11/08 Vitalic/Headman/DJ Hell Manning Bar The GFC Is Affecting Australian Festivals, Part I of XXVIII Over the last 5/10/15/20 years, one-day festivals have been becoming a larger and larger part of the local live music scene. Led by the summer-bestriding … Continue reading →

For some reason, big hip-hop acts have trouble with promoters in Australia. OK, perhaps in a lot of cases it’s dudes like Busta blowing out two tours then sitting backstage once they finally come to the country and refusing to … Continue reading →

this blog is not actually dead. but I’m not going to have home interwebs for the next few months years, so if any posts do happen on it, they probably won’t have any mp3s attached to them. let’s see what … Continue reading →

…or any other pre-teen kids you’ve got about the place: Frenzal Rhomb on Hey Hey It’s Saturday Buy: The song they’re doing is You Are Not My Friend. The single’s still in print.