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Dec 09
2009: Albums, gigs of the year
Albums of the Year
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
Antony & the Johnsons – The Crying Light
Morrissey – Years of Refusal
Beirut – March of the Zapotec
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Jun 09
Splendour in the Grass announces second line-up
I am not going to Splendour this year, but if you are lucky enough to have got your paws on a ticket, then I reckon you will be either super-happy with the second line-up announcement, or completely underwhelmed.
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Jun 09
difficult for you easy for me
There was a song on the hit parades back in the 70s or 80s called ‘Difficult for you easy for me’. Can someone please tell me who sang it. Jack Henson and his orchestra has a track with the same title on his Ballroom dancing record but it doesn’t sound like the same tune and it has no lyrics
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Jun 09
Warp20 (1989 – 2009)
Warp Records is an English record label that has been at the forefront of electronic music for 20 years. The label has been home to many of the greatest exponents of IDM (Intelligent Dance Music – an off-putting, but descriptive name for the genre) such as Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Autechre, (Chris) Clark and Boards of Canada.
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May 09
Luminous – a festival curated by Brian Eno
And you thought festival season was over….
Sydney Opera House will be the place to be at the end of May & beginning of June as Brian Eno, composer, performer, producer & writer arrives on these shores as curator of the inaugural Luminous festival.
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Mar 09
Get on this…yeahhhh on it.
Matt and Kim. Playing in Melbourne 1st of May. Playing elsewhere also but I don’t care. I will be there and if you have a head, some sort of brain, an inkling of logical thinking, pistons for legs and some sort of hearing device that allows your brain to comprehend music you will be too. Seriously though, pistons for legs would be awesome.
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Feb 09
Fuyuki Yamakawa: body musician
Armed with a bone conduction microphone and electric artificial larynx, performance artist/body musician Fuyuki Yamakawa drops a flurry of skull-thumping, mouth-tweaking beats.
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Feb 09
Burning the Midnight Oil
So, in the last couple of days, that old music machine Gudinski has been working overtime pulling together a hastily arranged benefit concert for the survivors of the recent Victorian bushfires, which have been dubbed “Black Saturday”.
Old Mickey G has outdone himself this time and managed to reverse some never-ever-agains that most had thought banished to the annals of music history.
Bands reuniting for the gig include Midnight Oil (resplendant with the Federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett), Icehouse, Hunters and Collectors (so much for all those desperates who fought tooth and nail to get into Selinas in ’98) and Split Enz from over the ditch.
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Feb 09
Call It A Lesson Learned #2
The second in a series of essays on what I may (or may not) have learned from music. The first essay can be found here.
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Mar 10
The Defamation of Ben Drew
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