Sat 17 Feb – Good Vibrations Festival

I really wanted to plan this out, say it properly, get all my thoughts and feelings articulated correctly about Saturdays Jam presents Good Vibrations festival in Sydney.

But deal with a dot point rants

*On arrival, you notice that the grounds were full. To the brim. Everywhere was a thoroughfare. 36000 people milling about in the sun. For the space, they had oversold it by at least 10000 people. The grounds were just a fenced in pen, with no scope for sitting under any bar 1 tree, and without the provision of ANY…

This had been one of the best BDO's in years. Heres how it all went down…

Chris and I woke early, and managed to get the train out there at a reasonable hour. Actually, our train wasnt even full - the joys of going before 11am…
We rushed inside and made our way over to the Green Stage to check out Laura Imbruglia , the girl with fantastic lyrics, country punk sensibillities, gorgeously straight up crowd banter and an amazingly concerned expression on her face as she sings. Her, with a guitarist that was missing at the New Pornographers show,…

It has been quite some time since ive put up a last.fm post of my own, but i figure its probably time. I have recently acquired a whole bunch of new music, partly from the Gentle Force's care package from the sides of the indie piles he recieves from his work, as well as some sent to me by the Cyclic Defrost cats, who amazingly have agreed to let me review for them - a daunting task that i hope i can live up to - but is probably the thing i really need to start feeling writing again…

As…

Just put it on shuffle and then actually write a little something about the first five songs or so. Hopefully it should involve readers a little more.

1. nite eats day (feat beans)

Off the Two/Three album, which i still cant decide whether i really like or find a little much (leaning towards like on hearing this song), Beans words arent too bad, and the wonderful minimal, dark electro hop of Dabrye kinda does rule. No doubt though, the uninitated would find this fucking iritating.

2. Even Flow

Cam put this on his goodbye mix tape to me when i…

I was playing relatively early set at the August edition of Ug for 2006, coming on after Jemist had warmed up the still smallish crowd in the way a man with a deep record collection can - spanning decades, genres and moods.
My intention was to be relatively different to sets ive played of late, so less of the funk, more of the cool records, with indie overtones. A rough, not in order set list of what i played (i just took the records i remember playing out of my box, so some might well be left out), also im…

So. On Sunday just passed, a whole troupe of us went off and saw DJ Shadow. The show was good - a mash up at the start of some old gear, onto the David Banner collab, next to the disapointing stuff he did with Chris James, then a Lateef The Truth Speaker section, and finally a mash of old and new to end the show.

So finding that some leakage had occured, i procured his forthcoming album off the net, and im not gonna harp on about it too much, i just wanna say that the David Banner…

I joined Nick and Mark to co-host 2xx's fantastic Psycho Therapy Fridays, 11pm-1am, 2xx 98.3fm if yr in Canberra, although i believe its syndicated across a fair bit of the Australian nations community radio… here is what we played

Spiderman
Who's Got the Light?
Wholesome (plaid remix)
Raspberry Beret
The Wreckoning
You Gots To Chill
Jump Around (Pete Rock remix)
Rock the Whole Planet
Saturday Night Holocaust
Good Morning
When the Shit Goes Down
52 Girls
Tache
Bring It On
The Breakdown
Song for John Walker
Cold as Hell feat. Beans
Please Pass Me My Anti-robotics
Sixes Last
My Love…

I went digging this weekend, and came out relatively happy this lot all up for under $100

wax

Fuck Me On The Dancefloor (Rapster, 2003) 12"
Quadraplex (Ninja Tune, 2001) EP
Council Estate Of Mind (Low Life Recordings, 2005) LP
Appetite For Disctruction (Studio !K7, 2000) LP

plastic

These Pictures (self-released, 2005) EP
Steppin' Razor (self-released, 2005) EP
And The Sea Closed In Over Us (UAR, 2004) LP
From Anuva Planet (Creative Vibes, 2000) LP
Sleeper (Creative Vibes, 2002) LP
How It Goes (Springman, 2004) LP

The wax was tough - there was so much more i wanted to get,…

super fun teenage death squad says:
evening darlink

this doom vs doom stuff is hawt says:
hello my dear
whats going on?

super fun teenage death squad says:
very, very little
my mp3 plare has finally died.
but its undewr warranty and I have the receipt

this doom vs doom stuff is hawt says:
excellent about the warranty
if i was to get a plare today, i think the only factor i would consider (given that they all freeze) is that iPods can upload the stats of the songs you have played on them to last.fm
then my charts might…

Im sorry, i am genuinely killing time before I go out to hang with a friend who came up for the Wolfmother concert, but her tickets fell through…

With this meme, you take your top 10 artists, punch em into googlism, and see what the first thing said about them is…

the new pornographers is no ordinary pop band
sleater-kinney is for lovers
give up the ghost is now playing on college and aaa radio stations accross the us including kpig
the grates is to flip out and kill people
princess superstar is miss america
Sorry, Google doesn't know enough…