Tag: "Grace Darling"

Kirin J Callinan @ Grace Darling
0 Comments. 189 Views. Posted 23 Apr 2013 @ 1:37pm.
As far as Kirin J Callinan performances go, the two-night return stint at Grace Darling was relatively conventional fare. Returning to solo mode, Kirin opened each set with a classic (Thighs Saturday, She Sunday) before showcasing material from his just-announced debut album.   Support came from The Shags Experience aka The Impeccable DJ Swim Between The Shags And His Moog, which pretty... Read More
Tim Guy
0 Comments. 162 Views. Posted 11 Apr 2013 @ 12:49pm.
Melbourne singer-songwriter Tim Guy has just released his fourth album, but unless you’ve been living in New Zealand, his name will probably be new to you. Guy started his musical career by taking his first home-recorded demo to a Bic Runga soundcheck during an Australian tour. By luck, the demo found its way into Runga’s hand, she signed Guy to her label, and he moved to New Zealand to record... Read More
James Teague
0 Comments. 238 Views. Posted 26 Mar 2013 @ 12:50pm.
I can’t help imagining James Teague in primary school singing Advance Australia Fair in his wildly odd voice, with its weird pronunciations and insanely cool tremolo thing. “Sorry, the what tremolo thing?” he asks and then chuckles bashfully. It’s a rare moment of acknowledging praise by the young Perth folk/country/psych-rock artist, who is about to undertake a tour to... Read More
Kirin J Callinan Announces 2013 Solo Shows
0 Comments. 600 Views. Posted 26 Mar 2013 @ 9:48am.
Experimental maverick Kirin J Callinan has announced a pair of special Melbourne shows, returning to Grace Darling in solo mode in the lead-up to his much-anticipated debut album. After a series of shows with an amorphous backing band in the past year, Kirin returns to solo mode for two nights at Grace Darling - the first venue Kirin sold out.   These shows mark Kirin's first Melbourne... Read More
James Teague Announces Melbourne Performances
0 Comments. 265 Views. Posted 26 Feb 2013 @ 12:39pm.
Channelling some of the more inspired moments in the annals of folk, country, blues, psych-rock and pop, James Teague has announced a bevy of Melbourne shows this March. James will be hitting the road for his first full national tour, backed by his band of musical comrades and with a new single.   Check out Where Sorrow Is Forgotten (in the Great Divine) on Soundcloud. Read More
Q&A: The Primary Vs Sleep Decade
0 Comments. 277 Views. Posted 26 Feb 2013 @ 10:49am.
Jules (The Primary) asks Casey (Sleep Decade)...   The ‘Into Spinning Lights’ album was extremely well received by the music press in Melbourne and wider Australia. Besides this show, what’s next for Sleep Decade? We’re currently trying to organize a few more Into Spinning Lights shows. It was really nice to play it from start to finish at NSC with Laura Baxter contributing her vocal parts... Read More
No Escape For The King
0 Comments. 413 Views. Posted 26 Feb 2013 @ 10:20am.
No Escape for the King are a local quintet with an international flavour, with members hailing from the UK, Ireland, and South Africa, travelling Down Under via the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and Canada. This heady cultural mix has brought hidden depths to their music, according to front man Matthew Cheetham. With their debut album, 13 Fjords, launching at the Grace Darling this... Read More
Dear Time's Waste
0 Comments. 584 Views. Posted 29 Jan 2013 @ 7:35pm.
“It was a record that for me, was I guess, simultaneously really personal but also very almost conceptual. It was quite an intense part of my life. I became very immersed in what I was doing, I was only reading and looking for things that would inform it, and didn’t spend much time doing anything else. I was very submerged in the whole process.” says Claire Duncan, who is the creative force... Read More
GANGBUSTERS Returns For Another Year
0 Comments. 312 Views. Posted 25 Jan 2013 @ 11:54am.
Boasting previous success in Canberra, GANGBUSTERS will be taking its new home of Melbourne by storm this February. Hosted by record label Birds Love Fighting, GANGBUSTERS will feature Jonny Telafone, Cat Cat, The Ocean Party, Grand Prismatic, Zone Out, Orbits, From The South, Day Ravies and Anonymere.   Birds Love Fighting are an independent label... Read More
Q&A: The Perfections
0 Comments. 394 Views. Posted 10 Dec 2012 @ 4:32pm.
Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? Panty droppin’, cherry poppin’, heart stoppin’ mother lickin’ garage soul.    What can a punter expect from your live show? Wild dancing and a crazy horn section. And free drinks. And hot ladies everywhere.   What's your favourite song, and why? We are loving JC Brooks and The... Read More
Q&A: Bad Animal
0 Comments. 221 Views. Posted 5 Nov 2012 @ 6:38am.
Define your genre in five words or less: Rock/alternative.   Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? Dark and dirty, blues-driven rock‘n’roll.   If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? Maybe someone like Howlin’ Wolf, ‘cause I think he might like it.... Read More
Broken Splendour
0 Comments. 288 Views. Posted 2 Nov 2012 @ 3:38am.
Melbourne has long prided itself on being one of, if not the best city in Australia in terms of the variety and availability of live music. So renowned is Melbourne’s live music scene in fact, that in recent years it’s begun to draw comparisons to Austin, Texas – long considered to be America’s mecca of live music. It’s a comparison that Thomas Vecera, the mastermind behind local cinematic folk... Read More
Q&A: Drunk Mums
0 Comments. 357 Views. Posted 16 Oct 2012 @ 10:57am.
Define your genre in five words or less: Post pub rock.   Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? AC/DC playing punk.   What do you love about making music? Getting paid to party.   What do you hate about the music industry? People that think their better then others.   If you could assassinate one person or... Read More
Monks Of Mellonwah
0 Comments. 448 Views. Posted 20 Sep 2012 @ 2:05pm.
Walk its streets long enough, visit enough dive bars and peer down enough alleys and you’ll realize Los Angeles is as much a city where dreams of stardom are crushed as much as it is a city where dreams come true. It’s a notion not lost on Will Maher, lead singer of Sydney-based hard rock troupe Monks Of Mellonwah. Maher and co. recently returned from a whirlwind experience in the city of angels... Read More
The Spitfires
0 Comments. 675 Views. Posted 29 Aug 2012 @ 5:58am.
Sean Regan from The Spitfires has just hustled through traffic from work to his home in Sydney to chat. The band are about to embark on a brief, but kilometre clocking national tour which sees them promoting their new album Songs From The Debt Generation. From the cover of NME, supporting The Cribs to their revolving door of drummers, Sean gives us the lowdown on the band’s unique... Read More
Joe McKee @ The Grace Darling
0 Comments. 523 Views. Posted 28 Aug 2012 @ 2:48pm.
After breaking away from the grand and ghoulish Snowman, former frontman Joe McKee has found a more subtle form of expression as a solo artist. While his old band expertly drew listeners in using suspense and tribal drumming as its main weapons of seduction, in his new incarnation, loops and well-pronounced vowels do all the work. As an environment, the Grace provides buckets of support for... Read More
Sarah Mary Chadwick
0 Comments. 778 Views. Posted 23 Aug 2012 @ 11:44am.
There’s some very painterly, stark ink drawings on Sarah Mary Chadwick’s Bandcamp site which look almost like Joy Hester’s: free lines, deep wet shadows and a lot of feeling conveyed with (what looks like) relatively few flicks of the wrist. That’s the great thing about ink and watercolours: you’ve got to be simple and honest and spontaneous. If you make a mistake then you’ve got to just go with... Read More
Q&A: James Teague
0 Comments. 450 Views. Posted 7 Aug 2012 @ 11:40am.
Define your genre in five words or less: Folk rock party mix.   Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? People will think I sound like a girl. I've been compared to Joanna Newsom... that ain't so bad in my books.   What do you love about making music? I love the way music distracts my soul and offers a few moments of... Read More
Q&A: The Single Men's Drinking Club
0 Comments. 593 Views. Posted 2 Aug 2012 @ 7:32am.
Define your genre in five words or less:  Not suitable for children.   Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? Nick Cave’s car accident, particularly if he had the Beasts of Bourbon on the stereo at the time and if Midnight Oil were driving the tow-truck.   What can a punter expect from your live show? Four battle-... Read More
Q&A: Andy Jans-Brown & Coz*mic
0 Comments. 400 Views. Posted 26 Jul 2012 @ 7:51am.
What do you love about making music? I love being in touch with my intuitive creative side and I love the process of bringing things from my subconscious into the world. It’s still very much a magic process for me even after studying music formally. I also love that music communicates directly from the emotions to the emotions. I always loved having deep and meaningfuls when I was growing up, or... Read More
Q&A: Andy Jans-Brown & Coz*mic
0 Comments. 540 Views. Posted 26 Jul 2012 @ 7:51am.
What do you love about making music? I love being in touch with my intuitive creative side and I love the process of bringing things from my subconscious into the world. It’s still very much a magic process for me even after studying music formally. I also love that music communicates directly from the emotions to the emotions. I always loved having deep and meaningfuls when I was growing up, or... Read More
Joe McKee Album Tour
0 Comments. 790 Views. Posted 25 Jul 2012 @ 10:49am.
Joe McKee is embarking on an album tour this August to launch his debut solo record Burning Boy. Recorded with long time collaborator Dave Parkin in Perth, Burning Boy was written in various countries over a three year period, all over the globe. Burning Boy itself is a bold shift for McKee. Gone is the pulsing rhythm section so often omnipresent in his work, replaced by a breathy and somewhat... Read More
Elephant Eyes
0 Comments. 780 Views. Posted 5 Jun 2012 @ 2:53pm.
North Melbourne Institute of TAFE has a great reputation for producing confident, business-savvy performers and arrangers, yet the fact that the members of Elephant Eyes all met and created their band while in its warm embrace still seems serendipitous. Even meeting truly like-minded friends at high school is hard enough, when you’re still very malleable and don’t think pretending to like this or... Read More
Liz Martin
0 Comments. 742 Views. Posted 24 May 2012 @ 2:26pm.
The adage 'strength through diversity' has been run into the ground. Used ad nauseum by self-help books, religious characters and others of a similar ilk, it’s one of those phrases that’s lost its power through over-use. But every now and then it’s a good phrase to use – take Sydney singer songwriter Liz Martin, for instance. Laid up for months after painful surgery on her hip, and mourning the... Read More
Number Station
0 Comments. 1,018 Views. Posted 24 May 2012 @ 2:14pm.
Winning the coveted triple j Unearthed competition over five years ago (back when there was a single winner as opposed to fragmented competitions throughout the year) looks like a recipe for immediate success. Just ask Grinspoon and Missy Higgins, to name a few. But sometimes a band just isn’t ready to launch into a trajectory of national ascendance at that point and with broken wrists, house... Read More
60 Seconds With... Wall Of Mirrors
0 Comments. 695 Views. Posted 22 May 2012 @ 10:16am.
Name:Emma Stuart.   Define your genre in five words or less: Hard to answer actually. ‘Genreless'?   If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why?Dave Brubeck, I reckon he'd give me some good time signature tips. (I've always been intrigued by unusual time signatures and contrasting rhythms.)   When’s the gig and with who... Read More
Woollen Kits @ Grace Darling
0 Comments. 779 Views. Posted 8 May 2012 @ 1:16pm.
  The rest of the world need to start listening: Woollen Kits are one of the best bands nobody’s ever heard of. With their self-titled debut out on R.I.P Society Records, these are the types of dudes who could go far internationally. They could easily hob-nob with constant purveyors cool such as Goner or Hozac Records and do, because they’re just that adaptable. It’s hard to imagine these... Read More
60 Seconds With... Store Bought Cool
0 Comments. 993 Views. Posted 24 Apr 2012 @ 12:15pm.
Five words that describe your genre:Rock’n’roll garage pop.   When and why did you start writing and playing music?Like a lot of people reading this, I can’t imagine not writing or playing music. To write is obviously to express, and rock music is one of the greatest methods of self-expression ever. Store Bought Cool have all been performers and players of music since teenage years, to stop... Read More
Q&A: The Leafs
0 Comments. 946 Views. Posted 1 Dec 2011 @ 9:21am.
So then, what's the band name and what do you 'do' in the band? The Leafs. I sing and play a guitar with all the strings tuned to the same note.   Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? One magazine said our first single sounded like Springsteen's Born To Run being covered by half of Pixies. That's pretty cool. We've also... Read More
Chatting With Secondhand Heart
0 Comments. 945 Views. Posted 24 Aug 2011 @ 9:35am.
We're Jess and Lily from alternative pop rock group Secondhand Heart . We sing, play keys and guitar. We are 2 of 5. Jess writes songs and brings them to practice sessions we all try and throw around a few ideas to see what sticks, it's highly experimental and lots of fun!   We started out about 5 years ago members have changed but what makes Secondhand Heart has stayed the same. We... Read More
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