ugh that always ends badly! mongrels, spring '09

undies were good, not amazing.. RA was in very fine form as was vince's voice, however the almost complete lack of pre-LMB songs was REALLY disappointing to me (no lick the boot ;_;) and it really wouldn't have killed vince to at least approximate the original melody of some songs..

i don't know if this was their first show back or not, so there's probably still bumps to be worked out. will go & see em at EBC in dec..

reckon it musta been the first show. they were going under an alias, after all!

tru

Ah good, I feel a little less silly about skipping now. As it turned out we got home and basically fell asleep cz we were stuffed.

Was good to see yers all last night tho mongs!

http://www.msquaredrecords.com/m_squared_images/live_poster_09_270.jpg

hmm

yes but sydney

Whats with every old band ever reforming,lately.

probably something to do with the complete vacuum of new australian bands that are worth listening to

that's just from a local perspective though

Never thought of that, yeah. Perth seems to be where its at these days.

it does? i haven't heard a new perth band since cartman

think canyons are from perth

dat's all i got

Radarmaker, the Tigers, Empire of the Sun, Hoopers Store.. bunch of robs friends are in bands too, seems like everyone is over there.

there was institut polaire but they moved to melb i think. and the zebras are from perth maybe? i like them.

Yeah IPs are in Melb now, they also have their alter-ego band Jack on Fire.

Thats another thing perth seem to do a lot of:people are all up in each others bands heaps.

Rob did this nice aussie music mix last week FWIW:

http://rooftopaccess.net/audio/ausmix.mp3

0:00 - Adam Trainer - South China Sea II
2:47 - Gate - Frozen
6:42 - I/O - Climatic Shift
10:43 - Pivot - Blood Rise Red Dawn
17:48 - Gotye - Heart's A Mess (3am mix)
23:27 - Chris Cobilis - It's Your Legacy
28:11 - Hunz - Draw The Line
31:43 - Abe Sada - Sedition
37:55 - Pivot - Helps None But Hurts None
43:19 - Rooftop Access - Hats Off To You, Simon Tempest
50:19 - Black Cab - Rescue
54:45 - Ghost Of 29 Megacycles - Twilight's Last Gleaming
61:55 - Hoopers Store - Sticks Falling On The House Stream
65:39 - Qua & Stina - Green Robin
68:04 - Luke Nathaniel Slater - Seahorse
72:52 - The Tigers - Names & Things
75:36 - Radarmaker - Squibbon

i never got the multiple bands thing, but maybe it's different for non-songwriters? i don't like spreading my ideas thin, there's barely enough of them as it stands

Luke Slater (that's my friend L1v's bro) is awesomely talented and really needs to be signed by someone.

Yeah Rob's always doing about 4 diff projects, now he's trying to start a post metal band!

lol i saw the "luke s" bit and was about to launch into a rant

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Haha not that one!

Some horrible Becks stage at some Sydney festival has

January 14 – Severed Heads, The Reels, Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), DJ Set

Huh, that'd be kind of cool to check out.

interesting. so 3llard has reformed himself?

apparently not http://tomellard.com/january.html

Some horrible Becks stage at some Sydney festival has

it's shitty when it's packed, but I've seen some great shows there.

cosign. not completely whelmed by the initial lineup for the festival tbh, not compared to last year (i mean this year), but def looking fwd to the above-mentioned as well as The Books, Toumani Diabate, Trevor Jackson, John Cale....

less whelming than this year is a good thing, it was an expensive month! if the 9am $25 tix booth is in effect I'll probably try a bunch of the white-people-in-recital-hall things. the Circa 1979 day of lectures with Ellard, Cale, Roger Grierson etc will be cool. interested in DJ Yoda's A/V thingy.

how are we all on this lovely oaks day

Shithouse. Hello!

wooo

Huzzah for stress *flails*.

Eh. I'll live.

nice day innit

we had interminable all-monring staff meeting, BUT free lunch also

smashed dem chicken wings

ooh now you're talking

frequent barely-touched plates of "gourmet" sandwiches leftover from meetings was the only good thing about working at 4nz

LOL I remember that at 44PTee as well. Tho people always left the crap ones.

drunkjen

woe is me!!

drunken because of woe or vice versa??

who can tell, at this point

more toast will help!

For once I have forgone my thursday suds!

http://www.theage.com.au/national/car-slams-into-carlton-bakery-20091106-i0li.html

whoops! this was filou's, i went past in the tram this morning and wondered wtf had happened!

Going to prob go to Pause for drinks after work to try and forget how crappy my life is going atm, if anyone wants to come with.

I don't like the cartoon man they use for their store, so I'm not too upset by this.

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SO no takers fr Pause? I'll be there at about 6 with R and N anyway.

not i, am working 2nite

^^^ Not "eric banarama"

think more fiji

??? Making a conscious decision to watch as little news as possible. Except for anything Ladette to Lady orientated obvs.