Tag: "Jimmy Hawk"

Jimmy Hawk And The Endless Party : Liberty Sunset Blue
0 Comments. 741 Views. Posted 9 Aug 2012 @ 10:06am.
Back in 1975, with the California hit parade producing hit records faster than Jimmy Carter could strangle his vowels, and the cocaine as plentiful as Richard Nixon’s paranoia, there did seem to be an endless party going on. From Fleetwood Mac to The Band, from David Crosby to Robert Evans, life looked pretty damn good – if only the drugs would keep working.    Jimmy Hawk And The... Read More
Jimmy Hawk and The Endless Party
0 Comments. 799 Views. Posted 28 Oct 2011 @ 8:24am.
If Jimmy Hawk's debut album Echo Park was the "breakup album," then his sophomore with new band The Endless Party is the "make-out album," as the Melbourne singer/songwriter jokingly puts it. Inspired by a period of a lot of partying and healing of old wounds, the self-titled follow-up is a step in quite a different direction from the lo-fi folk of his debut. "It's a very percussive... Read More
Dead Parties
0 Comments. 2,439 Views. Posted 13 May 2011 @ 11:32am.
So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band?  “Dead Parties and I play the guitar and sing.” Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? "We like to soak our guitars in pools of reverb and delay and we also like to shake a tambourine so you could call us, in your preferred order, indie, shoegaze, psych."   What... Read More
Jimmy Hawk and The Endless Party : Meet Me At The Party
0 Comments. 2,687 Views. Posted 11 May 2011 @ 2:06pm.
Jimmy Hawk reminds of Jens Lekman – his music has a warm, homespun flavour, but his songs are deceptively clever. On the surface, Meet Me At The Party is a slip of an indie pop tune with a very light heart, but the swinging rhythm and the bluesy vocal croon are carefully crafted. Another great song from one of Melbourne’s best. Read More
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