Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros @ The Corner, Melbourne (27/03/2010)

Wow, talk about a FUN gig! Read all about the crazy hippy cult here at FasterLouder.

This is the encore of the evening, Brother, performed to a seated crowd... Yes, Alex Ebert got people to sit on that amazingly sticky floor. I think he said, "if you all sit on one another's laps, no one will have to sit on the floor"...



...it's the magical mystery kind...

Angus & Julia Stone @ The Palace, Melbourne (26/03/2010)

Haven't reviewed a gig in a while, so this was a good one to break the drought! Read all about it on FasterLouder here.

Angus & Julia Stone put on a great show, which included heaps of new material. None of that here though - a coupla clips...

Just A Boy - first song of the encore:


And their cover of Fleetwood Mac's Dreams (feat. Boy and Bear - all those extra people on stage):


...go on and on and on and on...

Franz Ferdinand @ The Forum, Melbourne (03/05/2010)

Woo, Franz Ferdinand! Here's a bunch of clips from the Forum show...

No You Girls - the opening song of the night:


The always delightful, Take Me Out:


Walk Away - one of the few songs off the second album to be played. First in the encore:


And lastly, Franz covering LCD Soundsystem's All My Friends:


AND ALSO...
Support for the night was the Philly Jays. Here they are playing The New Neil Young:


...wanna go...

The Polyphonic Spree @ The Forum Theatre, Melbourne (27/02/2010)

This had to be one of the most visually appealing and fun gigs I've ever been to! The Polyphonic Spree, this time touring with 17 members, are always amazing live (how can you now be with that many musicians?) but this was just plain exceptional! Everyone was costumed up with indian headdresses, bling and flashing slap bands - SLAP BANDS! And The Polyphonic Spree played for over 2 hours (note, though, their intro went for about 15 minutes... :P). And there were BALLOONS! YAY!

And I cannot recommend The New Orleans Bingo Show highly enough! They opened the night and put on SUCH an entertaining show. Pretty cool sound, too.



You can read all about it in my review on fasterlouder by heading here.

I've got some videos, too. The first is their opening track, minus the lengthy, lengthy introduction behind the curtain.


The second is Two Thousand Places:


And lastly, here's a bit of the New Orleans Bingo Show:


Oh, and nothing beats rockin' out on the cello!

Recent reviews

Just have a couple of links I wanted to post up on here.

Luluc @ Christmas Street Warehouse (11/02/2010), reviewed on thedwarf here. Such a beautiful sound.

Joe Gideon & The Shark @ The East Brunswick Club (20/02/2010), reviewed on fasterlouder here.

The almighty Faith No More and The Eagles of Death Metal @ Festival Hall (Festering Hall) (25/02/2010), reviewed on fasterlouder also here. We may have been in the worst possible seats for this show, but it sure as hell was a good one!

AC/DC @ Etihad Stadium, Melbourne (13/02/2010)

Just wanted to share this photo to try and get across the scale of this thing...



Seriously huge. And everyone was wearing glowing red devil horns, which made the crowd look incredible from up on high where I was.

I reviewed the show for fasterlouder, head here for a read.

Laneway Festival in Footscray, Melbourne (30/01/2010)

Whoa, ok, I'm seriously behind in getting these things up on here...

This is from way back in January, remember then? Dammit, it's March already.

Awesome day in Footscray (can you believe it?). Sun + Awesome music = yay! Florence & The Machine were beyond great, Mumford & Sons had serious sound issues that made their "hype moment of the day" a little bit of a problem, Dappled Cities were creepy in their golden suits, and everything each way and in between was pretty darn good.

I reviewed the day here for thedwarf, so please head over and have a read.

One video from the day, it's Hockey playing Song Away:


“They knew I’d burn if I played in the sun”