Eagles of Death Metal @ The Palace (26/04/2009)

There I was, yet again at the Palace, yet again on the balcony. The Eagles of Death Metal put on a very cool show. I'm glad I found out that Josh Homme never tours with them a while before the show rather than find out on the night. Still, I'll hold onto the hope that I see him there behind the kit someday... There wasn't the excessive antics I was kind of expecting, but Jesse Hughes is awesome anyway. Oh and Joey Castillo is huge!

Check out my review of all the action here at FasterLouder or check out these videos from the night:

I Only Want You - This was the opening song and you have to wait a while for them to actually start playing because Jesse Hughes likes to strut. Kylie = top choice, though.


Wanna Be In LA - This was second last in the encore and pretty good also.

The Drones

In anticipation of this Friday at the Corner Hotel, here's The Drones at Golden Plains festival this year...



And speaking of Golden Plains, what about a super late recap...





The Drones were the standout band for me at the festival this year - their great live show continues to impress me every time I see them. Gareth Liddiard is a gun.



You Am I were good the night before but the losers down the front (who continued to keep trying to mosh even though it clearly wasn't gonna happen) kind of killed them. People get frustrated with Tim Rogers for being arrogant - but it's clearly an act for the most part. Quite frankly, he can call himself the King of England for all I care - his songs are still awesome.



Bridezilla and Dan Kelly were my other favourites. Black Mountain were a surprise hit for me, too. Of Montreal should have been awesome, but they were just way to random to actually be engaging.

Here's Holiday from Bridezilla doing her thing:


And here are the Ukeladies doing their mobile phone duet (clever):


And Black Mountain:


And finally, who could forget this fella...

Not freaky in the slightest...

Tess crossing the river at Glenmaggie

Mum really wanted her to fall in. So close...

Elbow @ V Festival (5/4/2009)

Elbow were the clear winners of the day (actually, Madness were pretty awesome) - Guy Garvey is a great front man. Here's the lads performing Grounds For Divorce:



Awesome!

And here's the set list:

Kaki King

Here's the Kaki King set list from her gig at Ruby's Lounge (19/02/2009):

Kaiser Chiefs @ The Palace Theatre 1/4/2009

The Temper Trap were listed on the tickets but they didn't play. The local support was Oh Mercy - *yawn* - with the singer saying at the end, "Thanks, I'm O' M.... I mean we're Oh Mercy"...

Razorlight were next and they had some good songs, but the singer was a prat and therefore their whole set was a bit disappointing...

The Kaisers delivered the most fun show I've been to! This was the fourth of five times I've seen them (the fifth being at V Fest the following Saturday) and getting a spot down the front was a good choice. Ricky is a champ!

Here's Everything Is Average Nowadays - it's a cool clip and you can see Tess moshing in front of me...



Here's the set list:


And here's the set list from the Prince gig last year (now I'm just showing off):

Keane - Live at the Palace Theatre

Keane...


Keane played a great set at the Palace the other night. They liked to wait and wait for applause between tracks, but that's probably the only annoying thing about the gig. Here is a video of the opening track...



The guy in the white shirt was in front of us and he was pretty funny because he just imitated Tom Chaplin for the entire gig - very enthusiastic.



Here's the set list:


Read all about the gig at FasterLouder.com.au