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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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Thoughts on Ric’s Big Backyard Festival

Posted in News, Review, tagged die! die! die!, music festival, press record online, ric's, ric's big backyard festival, thoughts, velociraptor, violent soho, you am i on March 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

So on Saturday I had the opportunity to go to Ric’s Big Backyard Festival, reviewing for Press Record Online (you can read the full proper review here). I admit I approached the festival with a lot of cynicism – from the outside I couldn’t possibly see how a festival would work at Ric’s. I couldn’t [...]

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St Jerome’s Laneway Festival Brisbane Review – Part 2

Posted in Review, tagged !!!, ariel pink, ariel pink's haunted graffiti, brisbane, chk chk chk, cut copy, deerhunter, festival review, foals, laneway, laneway festival, music festival, st jerome's laneway festival, two door cinema club, yeasayer on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The crowd that gathered at the Alexandria St stage for Irish indie lovelies Two Door Cinema Club easily surpassed that which was there for Beach House. Kicking things off with ‘Cigarettes in the Theatre’, the opening track from last year’s debut Tourist History, everyone instantly went off. The four piece (though officially only a three-piece, [...]

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Sunset Sounds – Day 2

Posted in Review, tagged boy and bear, brisbane music, children collide, festival review, joan jett and the blackhearts, klaxons, laneous and the family yah, music festival, paul kelly, sunset sounds, the morning benders on January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Wow. Didn’t think it would be this long between posts. Apologies about the delay all….not long after my last post, my internet was disconnected and I’ve spent the last couple of week frantically trying to find a new roof to put over my head. Thankfully I’ll be moving house next week and I’m hoping that [...]

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Sunset Sounds Review – Day 1

Posted in Review, tagged ball park music, botanical gardens, cloud control, cold war kids, hot hot heat, interpol, ladyhawke, music festival, public enemy, river stage, sleigh bells, sunset sounds, the national on January 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

It is a bit annoying to have the opening bands start a mere 15 minutes after gates open, but at least for the punters that missed out on the Cloud Control and Ball Park Music sets, it was still somewhat audible from outside the barricades. New York musical duo Sleigh Bells brought their unique brand [...]

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