Posts Tagged: parklife
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Oct 08
Hawnay Troof: Ding Dong Lounge
Before I begin this review I should make one item quite clear. I am not the messiah of the musical review world. I do not know much about the differences between breaks and loops except that one sounds warm and inviting after a day spent laboring over Simone de Beauvoir’s treatise on the foundational tracts of contemporary feminism and the other, with an added –y-, brings forth memories of family holidays spent cowering in the corner as an old Uncle belted out another vicious hymn on an out-of-tune piano.
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Sep 08
Live Music and The Upsides of Being Poor
Electroheads from far and wide assemble once a year for epic Parklife festivities. Tomorrow international giants Peaches, Soulwax and Diplo are a few to grace the stage for Parklife 2008 at Melbourne’s picturesque riverside park, Birrayung Marr. Unfortunately, having exhausted every possible avenue for a free ticket, having failed to form a James Bond-inspired fence-jumping strategy, and having observed the -$13.72 in my bank account, it looks like I’ll miss out this year.
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