Wonderboyf and I thought about going to Soundwave but I already had tickets to see Billy Connolly. Billy was fabulous and I am in no way unhappy that we went to that instead of Soundwave. There wasn't a whole lot of bands on the line up I was keen on seeing - except Queens of the Stone Age. So Wonderboyf had bought tickets for us to see QoSA play a ( Read more... )

I spent the weekend mostly at the Come Together Festival at Luna Park. I took Miss JD on Saturday to see her favourite band, The Butterfly Effect and they were great! Frenzal Rhomb before them and Gyroscope after them were ok, and I'll leave it at that ( Read more... )

Ok, so writing for another blog is becoming a little bit addictive.

Originally I was going to write here about my music shopping trip with ACoopers4me but it seemed more appropriate to put it in as an opinion piece for Timber and Steel so take a look see at my Folk Music Shopping Odyssey piece. You can comment here or there (but there's more fun because I' ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to tell you all about this great new Australian Music Blog which focuses on the Folk and sometimes Indie scene ( Read more... )

You all know I love the Snowdroppers, some of you have seen them, some of you haven't. Just saw this video of them documenting their tour last year and, well, it gives you a bit of an insight in to their jovial nature which is, I think, a major part of their appeal.

Take a look for yourself.

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And at some time I'll actually review them or at least ( Read more... )

My latest musical obsession, The Snowdroppers have been lining up the gigs thick and fast. I have meant to blog about them after no less than 4 of their gigs I've been to in the last month and a half, but haven't found the time. And now I'm preparing to head out to their next, sure to be ABSO-FUCKIN-LUTELY FANTASTIC gig, their Anti Valentines Day ( Read more... )

You're not supposed to call it that. oh well ( Read more... )

Musing after reading this article on the "25 Things" Facebook Meme, a meme that I for once did not do, though was tagged at least 6 times ( Read more... )

Because doing actual work on your first day back from Holidays is for dweebs. I used my iTunes (697 songs) - my iPod Shuffle died months ago ( Read more... )

Put your music player on random ( Read more... )