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CD Review – Gotye ‘Making Mirrors’

Posted in Review, tagged album review, cd review, gotye, kimbra, making mirrors, recording, review, wally de backer on August 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »

It has been five years since Wally De Backer has released an album under his moniker Gotye. The wait has proven to be worthwhile though, as Making Mirrors is easily one of the most anticipated albums of this year. The album opens with the title track, a 50 second clip of dreamy synths before launching [...]

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Splendour in the Grass 2011 Wrap Up – Day 3 31/07

Posted in Review, tagged Coldplay, Drapht, Elbow, festival, Friendly Fires, Kaiser Chiefs, live review, music festival, Pulp, splendour in the grass, The Herd, The Holidays, the Vaccines, Yelle on August 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

SUNDAY 31/07 Bands Seen: The Holidays, Yelle, the Vaccines, The Herd, Drapht, Elbow, Friendly Fires, Kaiser Chiefs, Pulp, Coldplay Highlight: Pulp I’ve never been a massive Pulp fan, but this set absolutely blew me away. Jarvis Cocker is an absolutely amazing frontman. I’m still in awe that I don’t really know what to say. The [...]

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Splendour in the Grass 2011 Wrap Up – Day 2 30/07

Posted in Review, tagged Architecture in Helsinki, Dananananakroyd, festival, Foster the People, gareth liddiard, Jane’s Addiction, live review, music festival, Regina Spektor, splendour in the grass, Thievery Corporation, Tim & Jean on August 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

SATUDAY 30/07 Bands seen: Tim & Jean, Dananananakroyd, Gareth Liddiard, Foster the People, Architecture inHelsinki, Thievery Corporation, Regina Spektor, Jane’s Addiction Highlight of the day: Architecture in Helsinki To be honest Jane’s Addiction was absolutely the highlight of my day, but headliners aside it was easily Architecture inHelsinki. I’ve always been a casual AIH listener [...]

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Splendour in the Grass 2011 Wrap Up – Day 1 29/07

Posted in Review, tagged British Sea Power, festival, James Blake, Kanye West, live review, Modest Mouse, mr percival, splendour in the grass, The Hives, The Kills, warpaint, Wild Beasts on August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Before I launch into my official Splendour in the Grass run down, I’d like to point out a pretty amazing act I saw on Thursday evening – Mr Percival. Those who have previously been to Splendour or the Woodford Folk Festival have most likely come across him before, but this was my first time seeing [...]

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Live Review – Ball Park Music at Alhambra 23/07

Posted in Review, tagged adelaide, adelaide music, alhambra, alhambra lounge, ball park music, brisbane, brisbane music, city riots, drawn from bees, indie rock, live music, live review, local band, millions on July 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Local four piece Millions opened the night to a half packed Alhambra Lounge with their retro sounding garage pop. Triple J favourite ‘Citrus’ got the ever-growing crowd enthusiastic early on in the set, though attention started to wane towards the end, with crowd chatter dominating between songs. ‘Those Girls’ finished the set off nicely with [...]

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EP Review – The Bloodpoets ‘Wings’

Posted in Review, tagged brisbane, cd review, ep review, powerpop, the bloodpoets on July 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Wings is the follow up EP for Brisbane’s own power-pop quartet the Bloodpoets. The group gained success last year after the release of their debut album Polarity with radio airplay, national tours and some pretty decent support slots. The six-track EP shows the four-piece attempting to move to a more mature sound. The end result [...]

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