Tag: "Want"

Take The 21 Challenge
0 Comments. 1,467 Views. Posted 30 Apr 2012 @ 5:02pm.
  What could you do, or even do without, every day for 21 days to help homeless young people? Take the 21 Challenge, that’s what. OFA’s 21 Challenge is your chance to help homeless youth by doing something you love, perhaps something you don’t love, or maybe something you’ve never done before, for 21 continuous days in June. Unlike similar challenges, it’s all up to personal preference what... Read More
Moroccan Kings
0 Comments. 600 Views. Posted 26 Apr 2012 @ 6:54am.
  Moroccan Kings are major up-and-comers on the Melbourne alternative rock scene. Though they fit fairly comfortably within our musical landscape, the outfit are doing things just a little differently. They’re set to release their brand new single, Grizzly Bear, with accompanying video, and while the song itself is ready to go, it's been a mad scramble to have the self-made video ready... Read More
Jack Vidgen : Lean On Me
0 Comments. 947 Views. Posted 25 Apr 2012 @ 7:02pm.
  You know what, fine. You want to have your little culture-decaying reality series, you go right ahead. Get middle Australia to boo and hiss and applaud like bunch of Pavlovian Hunger Games-watching bitches while you trot out inanimate goofball after inanimate goofball with the presumption that Australia’s Got Talent and Kyle Sandilands is the right pig to sniff it out. Go nuts, please.... Read More
Loki
0 Comments. 653 Views. Posted 17 Apr 2012 @ 4:04pm.
  When Jonathon O’Neill, vocalist of Melbourne four-piece Loki answers the phone on a Friday night, he’s in the middle of reading a good book. While many through the city are gearing up to spend their hard-earned dollars on possible liver damage, O’Neill opts for My Heart Wanders by Pia Jane Bijkerk.   “It’s about a lady who’s traveled around and made homes around the world.... Read More
60 Seconds With... The Indian Skies
0 Comments. 579 Views. Posted 2 Apr 2012 @ 7:19am.
  Define your genre in five words or less. Fuzzy, goodtime, PsychRock.   If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why?  Mozart, so we could give him LSD and he could arrange some strings for our next album.   When’s the gig and with who? Tuesday April 3, with our very good friends Michael Shaun, and Centre & The... Read More
Q&A: Ian Rickard
0 Comments. 690 Views. Posted 24 Feb 2012 @ 6:30am.
Define your genre in five words or less: Melodic pop/rock.   So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? Dude, that guy can sing!   How long have you been gigging and writing?I’m 23, and I wrote my first song when I was 14 or 15, but I’ve only taken it seriously the last two or three years,... Read More
Apocastrip Wow!
0 Comments. 1,666 Views. Posted 15 Feb 2012 @ 12:50pm.
  “It was lovely lying in bed, luxuriating in my curlers naked, talking to you.” Julie Atlas Muz manages to purr even when her throat is cigarette-style croaky after sleep. She’s on the phone in Sète, France, yawning constantly. From what I’ve gathered during our conversation, she’s really coming across as a reserved type. Muz is an experienced burlesque performer with signature acts that... Read More
Portugal. The Man
0 Comments. 1,525 Views. Posted 9 Jan 2012 @ 8:01am.
  When soaring Portland, Oregon [by way of Alaska] rock collective Portugal. The Man (yes, the errant full stop is part of their title) touch down in Aus­tralia for the upcoming Laneway Festival, you can forgive them for being a little overcautious in regards to the storage of their instruments. You see, the band’s entire arsenal of gear went missing along with their tour van in Chicago... Read More
Mogwai: Earth Division EP
0 Comments. 1,152 Views. Posted 6 Jan 2012 @ 10:43am.
Scotland’s hardest working merchants of distortion are back with a follow-up to their mostly acclaimed Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. In typical Mogwai fashion, the five man band have taken what is perceived to be their sound on yet another detour. The Earth Division EP finds their tried-and-true aggression being expanded to explore all of its melodic scope. Hell, you could go as far to... Read More
Moriarty
0 Comments. 976 Views. Posted 6 Jan 2012 @ 9:29am.
  Taking their name from the lead character of Jack Kerouac’s absolutely brilliant classic work On The Road, Moriarty, a six-piece theatrical old world musical troupe (with country underpinnings!), first formed in 1995 in France. Consisting of members born mostly to American parents, their music is nearly impossible to describe. Equal parts French pop, Irish folk, country and western, soul... Read More
Wooly Bully Needs Your Help
0 Comments. 2,557 Views. Posted 20 Dec 2011 @ 5:24pm.
One of the freshest additions to North Melbourne's thriving Errol St district is after your support, with record/comic store/cafe Wooly Bully facing a challenge to a Change Of Use permit application. Wooly Bully has quickly been established as a favourite hangout for those after LPs, comics, coffee and bagels.   As well as serving up quality goods, Wooly Bully has featured a number of... Read More
Shabazz Palaces
0 Comments. 1,341 Views. Posted 8 Dec 2011 @ 8:07am.
The word 'hype' can be used to surround many acts, but the fact of the matter is, at the best of times, we don't see those acts living up to that standard. Shabazz Palaces isn't one of those acts. Rather, they're the type of act that keeps listeners on their feet as they portray the rare ability to constantly keep their audiences guessing. Now getting ready to head down under for the Sugar... Read More
Cameras
0 Comments. 1,226 Views. Posted 1 Dec 2011 @ 9:03am.
Cameras have been giving Australians their daily dose of exquisite moodiness for over three years, so it's about time something good happened to them. The Sydney band are hitting the trifecta this month; they just got back from a killer stint in the US, they're about to embark on a headline national tour, and their debut album has been released on both sides of the equator. Not bad for a group of... Read More
Ciecmate
0 Comments. 868 Views. Posted 18 Nov 2011 @ 9:15am.
It was probably about 15 years ago that Ciecmate was hanging out with mates while having a few drinks. One of his boys had a rap book - a book of rhymes. He explains, "We were all messing around with graffiti and stuff but I was immediately taken aback. I got my own book of rhymes and got some cash together and bought basically the worst equipment I could buy! I had this crappy Boss drum machine... Read More
The Count With... Private Life
0 Comments. 1,254 Views. Posted 28 Oct 2011 @ 8:24am.
Name/Band: Private Life (Renee Cassar and Jamie Barlow)   Ten bands everyone should know about:   Beach House, Twin Shadow, Blonde Redhead, Spoon, Lizzy Mercier, Pavement, M. Ward, Alexander, Dirty Projectors, Ainslie Wills   Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party:   Jamie is head chef around here, so he says he needs; "people" but I kindly pointed... Read More
Fly My Pretties
0 Comments. 1,548 Views. Posted 30 Sep 2011 @ 9:22am.
To say that New Zealand collaborative outfit Fly My Pretties is a mere “collective” would have to be the understatement of the year. Made up of a revolving cast of musicians, Fly My Pretties was originally founded in 2004 by Mike Fabulous and Barnaby Weir, from wildly popular Wellington reggae band The Black Seeds. For their fourth visual/performing arts extravaganza, Melbourne fans should take... Read More
The Australian Film Television and Radio School
0 Comments. 1,525 Views. Posted 8 Sep 2011 @ 9:51am.
Budding filmmakers, illustrators, producers, designers and creative types of all ages who happen to have no academic background need not abandon their dreams and creativity, because AFTRS [Australian Film Television and Radio School] College is holding two open days over the coming weekend. The days will provide potential students with an overview of the available courses as well as offers... Read More
Vidal Sassoon
0 Comments. 2,009 Views. Posted 2 Sep 2011 @ 8:34am.
" I had done some work with the producer, Michael Gordon, in the past and I had met Vidal (Sassoon) in the past a few times doing some other projects and interviews with him. It was Michael's idea, he was a hairdresser and so it was his idea to make this a tribute to Vidal in lieu of his eightieth birthday. Because I had met Vidal a number of times in the past and just knew how influential... Read More
Josh Pyke
0 Comments. 3,176 Views. Posted 17 Aug 2011 @ 9:31am.
While King Clovis, one of the rulers of France from the fifth to the eighth century, was on a pilgrimage to the Holy City, his two sons rebelled against him. In an act of punishment for their disloyalty, their mother, Bathilde, severed the tendons in their hamstrings and set them adrift and oar-less on the river Seine. Eventually the princes ran aground and were taken in and cared for by... Read More
Loadstar
0 Comments. 1,608 Views. Posted 20 Jul 2011 @ 2:00pm.
As an artist, what do you do if you are on one of the most successful drum and bass record labels in the world? For Hospital Records artists Gavin Harris aka Xample and Nick Hill aka Lomax the answer is to combine forces! They decided to take their music to the next level late last year when they launched their collaboration as Loadstar and they haven't looked back.  The recent revival of... Read More
2011 Triple R Radiothon
0 Comments. 1,940 Views. Posted 13 Jul 2011 @ 1:56pm.
With four weeks to go the countdown begins to Triple R's 2011 Radiothon! It's that time of the year again when all of you Triple R fans rally together to support your favourite independent, non-profit community radio station, 102.7 FM.   The guys down at Triple R are asking you, their dedicated listeners to keep in tune with this year's theme, 'Choose Your Destination' and remain a part of... Read More
Glasfrosch
0 Comments. 2,453 Views. Posted 26 Jun 2011 @ 12:45am.
  Name/Band:   Glasfrosch   Define your genre in five words or less:   “Um, experimental pop/art-rock.”   Someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say?   “Hahaha, that never happened.”   How long have you been gigging and writing?   “Glasfrosch kinda started in about 2007, but we’ve... Read More
Catch Release
0 Comments. 1,433 Views. Posted 6 Jun 2011 @ 11:00am.
What's your name and the name of your band? "Tom Lee-Richards, Catch Release."   What do you reckon people will say you sound like? "We experiment with some unusual textures in our music, combining soul and folk influenced melodies with edgier jazz chords and some classical instrumentation. There's a focus on playful and nostalgic lyrics made even more dreamlike as they float around... Read More
Tom Lee-Richards
0 Comments. 2,497 Views. Posted 3 Jun 2011 @ 11:01am.
What's your name and the name of your band? Tom Lee-Richards, Catch Release   Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? We experiment with some unusual textures in our music, combining Soul and folk influenced melodies with edgier jazz chords and some classical instrumentation. There is a focus on playful and nostalgic lyrics... Read More
Heaven Is A Plate On Earth
0 Comments. 2,120 Views. Posted 31 May 2011 @ 9:51am.
So seeing as I didn't get raptured last week, I decided that I was going to make the most out of the rest of my life stuck on Earth by eating heaps of good food. I mean it's all good being in heaven with neverending supplies of soft cheeses, but isn't the joy of eating something to do with limits? The whole point of it all is that you can only eat so much so you have to tailor that amount to be... Read More
Write In Your Face For Government Grants
0 Comments. 3,449 Views. Posted 12 May 2011 @ 2:49pm.
Write in Your Face is back again in 2011 with another lot of government funded grants for young and emerging writers who are trying to do something different or innovative with our humble English language. Write in Your Face is a program funded by the government through the Literature Board of the Australia Council. That sounds a bit complicated but all it means is that for new writers who are... Read More
Melbourne Cabaret Festival In July
0 Comments. 2,956 Views. Posted 10 May 2011 @ 3:52pm.
The second Melbourne cabaret Festival will happen in Emerald Hill Arts And Culture Precinct in July. With more than 100 performers in 36 cabaret shows from comedy cabaret, musical theatre, New York style, vaudeville, edgy and queer shows, the second Melbourne Cabaret Festival will feature a whole range of fun stuff that will appeal to almost everyone.    One of the features is A... Read More
Register Now For Melbourne Fringe
0 Comments. 2,192 Views. Posted 10 May 2011 @ 3:09pm.
It might seem like far, far away but registrations open for Melbourne Fringe next month. If you want to be involved in the Melbourne Fringe Festival (one of the biggest and best Fringe Arts festivals in the country) you can register between May 23 and June 3.    To register you'll need a title for your show (so think of one, stat!) and an image as well as a confirmed venue, show times... Read More
60 Seconds With Oh Mercy
0 Comments. 2,065 Views. Posted 2 Mar 2011 @ 10:44am.
With Oh Mercy just having released their latest musical masterpiece, Great Barrier Grief, and about to head out on a three month tour I could think of no better time to talk to the genius behind the band. I chatted to Alexander Gow about everything music.   Tell me about the making of Great Barrier Grief. "I went to Brooklyn where I stayed a couple of months working on the album tracks... Read More
Kristina Miltiadou
0 Comments. 2,274 Views. Posted 8 Feb 2011 @ 9:21am.
Kristina Miltiadou's long black hair is flying around as she frantically adjusts herself before finally flopping down for our interview. Her strong, dark, beautiful features are striking and as she speaks, her eyes light up and bat demurely at me. Let's just say she's… formidable.   On stage she's even more intense. As a solo frontwoman with backing band, Krissy dominates... Read More
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