How do you know if you're a 'dance person'? Not the TV show, mind you, I'm thinking of broader contemporary dance. I like dancing out at clubs - admittedly not as often nowadays. But I would have considered myself pretty much not a dance person before seeing Bangarra's Mathinna last week. Intense ...
A terrifically researched, frequently tangential, yet terribly interesting spiel - basically, the perfect accompaniment to a long bus ride. This American Life.
This week on our show on FBI 94.5. Sound artist, music maker, film maker and writer Jason Sweeney, in town for Liquid Architecture, came in to talk about his upcoming residency at CIA, Perth, and his new record Panoptique Electrical record on Sensory Projects. Tessa Rapaport, Karl ...
If all else fails try a list. That's the normal thing, and usually radio shows fit the bill. This time though it's the set I played last night at Glamour Pour Le Hammer. Christine Harwood - Never Knew What Love Was Junior Delgado - Fort Augustus Velvet Underground - Ride Into The Sun Bronski ...
Illegal Gunshot - Ragga Twins Like An Arrow - Baobinga & ID Ti Tree Bush Mix - Big Low Sandshoe - Peret Mako Wayfaring Stranger - Jamie Woon The Escape - Early Day Miners Out the Window With the Window - Tunng Remember Love - Noze The Devil's Crayon - Wild Beasts The Bizness - Killaqueenz Requiem In A-Flat Reprise ...
I'm playing records next Thursday night, July 10, at the Colombian (corner of Oxford and Crown Streets). Upstairs, that is, where FBI's Jack Shit runs a weekly night of no-holds-barred music love, called Glamour Pour Le Hammer. I get the impression it's like a ...
Can't say I'm a Pearl Jam fan. But when Robert McDonald posted about the band recently, I felt moved to comment (here, given his blog does not allow comments). McDonald saw Pearl Jam, who he described as, "a tight, well-practiced band that was mostly just having fun playing, coupled with ...
A new site for all things poetic, When Pressed, launched last night at the tiny Serial Space warehouse (the old Jellyheads site) in inner city Waterloo. Tom Lee reads at Serial Space. Tom Lee and Amanda Stewart performed, while Nick Keys, Tim Wright and Pat ...
Homelessness is such a huge problem that it's abstract, feels a long way away, just stats. An ABC doco called The Oasis (originally screened in April) brought it home in a gripping 75 minutes, built on several years of filming in and around the Crown Street homeless refuge ...
This will soon be a thing of the past. I lose my records room soon - a luxury I built up to with a lot of dreaming - and in the process of preparing for that seismic shift, I've been culling CDs (and the odd record). Where ...
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