Just as ‘The New Pornographers’ sounds like a bunch of sleazy midnight DJs, and ‘Arcade Fire’ should refer to a group of pretentious, I’m-so-indie-I-shit-converse tossers, ‘Radical Face’ makes me think of skate-punk pre-teens who travel to gigs in their Mum’s mini-van.
First impressions aren’t everything…
Posted in The Happy Corner | Tagged Arcade Fire, ben cooper, bon iver, debut album, first impressions, ghost, ghosts, Haunted, houses, In Rainbows, iron & wine, oh ye denver birds, radical face, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, The Books, The Middle East, The New Pornographers, The Postal Service, Welcome Home, Wrapped in Piano Strings | 1 Comment »
Posted in Close to Home | Tagged brisbane, Fat Boy's Cafe, live music, music venue, new ownership, Rave Magazine, ric's bar | Leave a Comment »
Not that anyone noticed, but I haven’t actually added anything to The Fruitbowl for a while. I assure you I have an excuse. A really, really good one. So, as a way of announcing my return, I thought I’d provide a run-down of the albums I’ve been listening to since I temporarily plummeted off the side of the blogosphere a little while back.
Also, my mp3 player is still broken.
Posted in Ripest 10 | Tagged 90s, albums, an horse, andrew bird, armchair apocrypha, ben cooper, berlin EP, betony dircks, crooked rain crooked rain, dear nora, explosions in the sky, ghost, hazards of swimming naked, if you were fruit, katy davidson, lion island, mountain rock, not really scared, one beat, our lines are down, pavement, radical face, rearrange beds, ric's bar, riot grrrl, shiver like timber, sleater-kinney, Sunset Sounds, the great escape of houdini and me, the lovely eggs, the troubadour, the zoo | 2 Comments »
Local Brisbane band Wipedoubt have been on the scene for over a year now. Frontman and lead singer, Joel Smith, answers a few of my questions on fame, fortune and surf music.
Posted in Close to Home | Tagged brisbane, Elvis, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, Marbo, Perth, Scene Magazine, Sydney, Wipedoubt | 3 Comments »
Brisbane band Taken by the Silence will not be classified, or in their words, marginalised, into a specific genre. They are rock, progressive, punk and metal, wanting not a pigeon hole but the opportunity to make music which is real and new. One quarter and frontman of the band, Michael Hardgrave, talks about the band building a reputation around Brisbane for delivering raw and intense live shows. Continue Reading »
Posted in Close to Home | Tagged 299, Bar 388, cyndi lauper, Mariah Carey, Rosies, Taken by the Silence, the zoo | Leave a Comment »
Apparently punk rock used to be dangerous. The Sex Pistols were the cause of many sleepless nights for over-excited community groups and kept the censorship boards as busy as a pedophile at a Wiggle’s concert. Nowadays Frank Carter occasionally lays some tough love on rambunctious audience members and Tom Gabel glasses people at bars. Whatever happened to men like GG Allin?
Posted in Your Trend Offends | Tagged anarchism, cedar street sluts, Frank Carter, gg allin, hated, murder junkies, scumfucs, student film, texas nazis, todd phillips, tom gabel | 2 Comments »
I have always been intrigued by music that I find scary and of ambiguous or unfamiliar intentions. Like most humans, I enjoy a quick peek behind the black curtain from time to time, a glimpse of the other side available in documentaries about serial killers or books about acclaimed Satanists.
Posted in Crime Watch | Tagged aenima, anton lavey, black metal, burzum, church burnings, corpsegrinder, dead, euronymous, gaahl, gorgoroth, headbangers journey, mayhem, maynard james keenan, metal, norway, norwegian, oslo, per yngve ohlin, satan, serial killers, stabbing, tool, varg vikernes, world of warcraft | Leave a Comment »
Brisbane duo DZ have been doing the internet rounds for a while now. Their first single, ‘The Mess-Up’ has got to be one of the best film clips I have ever seen. Simplistic and funny, it just shows band members drinking an entire bottle of Jagermeister in three minutes. As you would expect, the ending is quite messy… Continue Reading »
Posted in Close to Home | Tagged Biffy Clyro, DZ, I heart hiroshima, Jagermeister, Melbourne, myspace, Ruined my Life, strobe lights, Tame Impala, The Mess Up, Valley Fiesta, Victoria | Leave a Comment »
For the first half of this interview I had trouble deciphering anything Mike Nugent of lo-fi gurus New Gents had to say. Skype can be a bitch at the best of times, even more so when the subject is eating a family bucket of Hot & Spicy KFC and is distributing their enthusiasm accordingly.
Chicken aside, New Gents have something to say. Whether it makes much sense or not probably depends on your experience with stoned musicians, but nevertheless, people are listening…
Posted in Close to Home, Uncategorized | Tagged ambient, Berlusconi, coke, Facebook, Hot & Spicy, KFC, lo-fi, New Gents, Patrick Bateman, Paul Keating, Sinatra, Skype, stoned, Suisse Guard | Leave a Comment »
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