Work from December, 2006

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Post at the Newtown Theatre

I'm really into James Wilkinson's new record as Post, but the gig as karaoke show tonight was disappointing. It must have been intimidating working out how to perform such an intricate and studio-bound album live. Some performers can take that challenge on their ...

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Just another night in Canberra

(c/o Throwing the Dice)

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Australia's Top Five Leftfield Music Blogs (a draft)

I spent a good part of this morning combing the web for Australian bloggers into leftfield music. I know it's about this time that lists start to really drag. But I'm keen to read different voices - it gets to be the same bunch of writers in a lot of the ...

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New things

Back in Sydney after an abortive overnight karaoke excursion to Canberra. Transit Bar cancelled the song session scheduled for Boxing Day night, and we ended up drinking at various establishments with morose (and freezing) Canberrans. All in all, a typical Canberra night out. Tonight on Join The Dots I'm ...

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JB is dead

The outrageous, the inimitable, the self-proclaimed Godfather of Soul James Brown hit it and quit it for the last time yesterday. Aged 73 he died on xmas day after checking into an Atlanta, US, hospital with pneumonia. He leaves behind a massive influence on modern ...

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LISTEN: Roll Deep

Grime's my new religion (this xmas) and it's sets like this messy, wild and inspirational one from Roll Deep on Rinse FM that have taken it from fave genre to way of life.

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The inaugural Join the Dots xmas special (21/12/06)

Inaugural as in the first ever. I've never really been that excited about Christmas, but there's a time for everything and this year I feel excited. Who knows why, not me. But tonight's show was fun. Many thanks to Wayne and DJ Riko (though Riko's not the Roll ...

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06's best tricks

It's almost the end of the year and things being what they are it is highly unlikely that I'm going to come across any new releases. I don't promise that I've come anywhere near a comprehensive listen to all or even the best of the year, but from what I've ...

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Australia cuts its links

The Australian record industry has scalped mp3s4free.net in a landmark case that could have implications for a whole generation of bloggers, myspacers and webmasters of whatever stripe. The Federal Court report suggests the decision was tied to the website's commercial focus: "Mr Cooper [the defendant and operator of mp3s4free.net ...

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LISTEN: Wayne&Wax

(Da Capo best) Music writer Wayne Marshall crafted this blazing yule in Chicago, but it's made for Sydney.

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