ugh that always ends badly! mongrels, spring '09

yes, lesser cities to the south obviously can't support that level of culture

if by culture you mean germs in a petri dish

zing zang!

Come on, in 2010 they’ve managed to sign POWDERFINGER to HEADLINE. If that’s not ascending the top of the cultural pinnacle after 18 years, what is?

bdo providing the powderfingerbang

I think the BDO is one of Sydney's greater gifts to the larger population centres around Australia, the small cities if you will, especially as those large towns become increasingly sophisticated and cosmopolitan, discovering the world of international culture to which only Sydney has really been privy for so long.

*sbigh*

moley you cad. Have at you.

Sorry

So you should be, Melbourne will always be #1 dammit *shakes fist*

well i appreciated you sharing your vision, it's hard to see the bigger picture when you're stuck in a provincial backwater.

Ha!

I take it none of you will be coming? I find large festival events disorienting myself. All that noise coming from every direction, all those people, the heat etc...

yeah nah, i'm way too old for festivals and the like

went out on friday evening and felt like going home after 20 minutes, couldn't handle all the youth

Yeah same here - even if more than a few bands I loved were playing I'd be hard pressed to justify it, esp if they still have it in that shadeless dustbowl its been held at recently. I cant be out in the sun, I get sunstroke very easily.

Also, I am old.

Sideshows, moley!

Sorry moley, I couldn't pay $100+ for an event headlined by Powderfinger and look at myself in the mirror ever again.

I am willing to help out if you need a dude to insult random indie kids who wander the wrong way, through.

No sideshows, sadly.

It's very much an under 25's thing isn't it? The rest of us have lives, wives, hives etc.

Yes, Im starting to think so. Which is why havening a 25 year old bloke is a little problematic for me, ha.

Young men are your weakness. You just like the sweetness.

I take it none of you will be coming?

see previous comments about unavailability of tickets before you even being added! could totally make a decent arvo of Mastodon, I&S, Dexter's 10-piece live thingy and mostly hanging out in the Silent Disco or Lilypad inbetween

but Muse, Powderfinger, Grinspoon and Eskimo Joe as four of the top six headliners on initial lineup would only inspire scum, teenagers, and teenage scum to have bought tickets already

I'm under 25 and I'm already too old for it!!

Besides, I really can't stand people.

Especially people who enjoy Muse.

^is this why you are rarely on last.fm

musanthrope

highly amusing

you musn't do that to me

oh god i'm going back to music trivia at the townie someone please school me on shitty 90s australian indie

Jim's yer man there.

(lol sorry)

no no no, Jim should be sorry for knowing

pfff

Sorry I only know shitty 80's Australian indie.

What meanst thou by shitty? I mean we have yer Ratcat/Undies/Falling Joys/Clouds/Fauves/Spiderbait/meanies kind of area... thats not shitty tho.

Well, ok Ratcat were a bit shit.

I beg to differ!

I liked their very early stuff! Baby's got a gun and She's gone were cool songs. When they became chart darlings I rather went off them.

Ha, bandwagon jumper! I knew Ratcat when they were Mousekitten.

LOL at musanthrope

I knew Ratcat when they were Mousekitten.

ha!

many lolz in mongreltown

So last weekend my friend Ash (who is also in R's band, when R is in Perth anyway) was playing in his other band at a small pub in perth, and Eddie Vedder wanders in for a beer, and likes them, and stays for thhe whole set, and invites the band backstage the next night at the PJ gig. Many lols.

the question is do they actually like pearl jam

Hahah probably not, though I nave NFI really.

But he also gave them props in front of the entire PJ crowd, you cant buy that kind of publicity. lucky barstools.

vedder seems pretty laid-back; would bro down with. much as i liked nirvana way better, don't think you'd want to bro down with kurt, y'know?

would smell a bit for starters

lulz!

has the seattle crew ever hung out with grunger d00ds, outher than when c0urtn3y crashed jergins' party??

I think that on its own was muchos hilaro!