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The Drones @ The Forum
0 Comments. 164 Views. Posted 30 Apr 2013 @ 1:28pm.
Mixing it up slightly for tonight's support slot, King Gizzard And The Lizard took a more measured approach – whether it be out of reverence for the man who inspired the title of Garage Liddiard, or simply a less-attacking stratagem to comply with their role as the night's warmup. Playing tracks from their recently released Eyes Like The Sky was a curious choice, especially when performed sans... Read More
The Drones
0 Comments. 721 Views. Posted 17 Apr 2013 @ 9:48am.
The Drones’ career has played out in three acts: the first came with the band’s conception in Perth, the bastard offspring of The Gutterville Splendour Six. Featuring original members James McCann and Rui Pereira alongside notional leader Gareth Liddiard, The Drones begged, borrowed and stole its way into the gutter of Australian underground rock. The second act came with The Drones’ break-... Read More
The Drones : I See Seaweed
0 Comments. 2,633 Views. Posted 27 Feb 2013 @ 6:15am.
Gareth Liddiard has never been one to shy away from expressing the way things are and he again goes straight for the jugular on his band’s latest album, I Sea Seaweed. In the past, the Drones-eye-view has been entrenched in the surrounding landscape and its people. So while there’s something quintessentially Australian about The Drones, with their passionate local fans lapping up their visceral... Read More
ATP I'll Be Your Mirror @ Westgate Entertainment Centre and Grand Star Reception
0 Comments. 807 Views. Posted 26 Feb 2013 @ 10:56am.
Precursor to everything, it was hot! Held in the scant, industrial confines of Altona North, the site for ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror was a wonderfully dated oasis, desperately in need of refurbishment on the outside, sparsely adorned inside: no doubt a hub for gymbaroos, bookish tennis and '80s consumerism.   Rolling into the large Stage One at the most intense moment of the day I’m witness... Read More
Neil Young and Crazy Horse Announce Support Acts
0 Comments. 696 Views. Posted 22 Feb 2013 @ 4:50pm.
Neil Young and Crazy Horse have announced that Husky as well as The Drones will support them at their Melbourne shows next month.   Indie folk four-piece Husky will support Neil Young and Crazy Horse at each of their arena and A Day On The Green appearances. The band released debut LP Forever So in July last year to much critical acclaim. They’ll be joined by experimental rock... Read More
The Drones Announce 2013 National Tour
0 Comments. 611 Views. Posted 20 Feb 2013 @ 8:59am.
Fresh from curating the Australian return of All Tomorrow's Parties, The Drones have announced a national tour to celebrate the launch of their first studio album in a long while, I See Seaweed. The tour will be The Drones' first since their return to support their extensive DVD compilation A Thousand Mistakes.   Support comes from King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard. Read More
The Drones : How To See Through Fog
0 Comments. 819 Views. Posted 30 Jan 2013 @ 7:17pm.
The sixth Drones’ record is due for release in March and the opening salvo is a staid, tense and bitter lament. It has a broken soulfulness that is completely unaffected, piano notes that drop like rain and a flat throb in the chorus. Atmospheric and angry and dark, the gravitas of this tune is immediately familiar; it could only be one band, and that band continues to be brilliant. Read More
More Acts Added To ATP's I'll Be Your Mirror
0 Comments. 697 Views. Posted 9 Jan 2013 @ 8:47am.
Following on from All Tomorrow's Parties surprise announcement of its return to Australia, a second batch of artists have been added to the two day event in Altona. Curated by ATP and The Drones, the second announcement brings Pere Ubu (performing The Modern Dance), Crime And The City Solution, Kev Carmody, Oren Ambarchi, Ben Frost, Dan Kelly Dream Band, The Stickmen, My Disco, Civil Civic... Read More
Spencer P Jones And The Nothing Butts
0 Comments. 463 Views. Posted 18 Dec 2012 @ 12:34pm.
When James Baker, Spencer Jones’ former partner in inebriated rock’n’roll crime and certified Australian rock’n’roll legend, rode into town with his current two-piece folk-punk band The Painkillers, neither Jones nor Baker had any idea of events to follow. Jones was already part-way through recording what he expected would be a solo record at Andrew McGee’s Empty Room studio in regional Victoria... Read More
Mike Noga
0 Comments. 1,425 Views. Posted 26 Jun 2012 @ 8:48pm.
Mike Noga has been present in the Australian music scene for a while now and is probably best known as the drummer for that little indie rock band that just keeps on giving (both in itself and via its many spin-off projects), The Drones. After the release of his second solo album last year, The Balladeer Hunter, Noga enjoyed a run of shows throughout Australia including support for Band Of... Read More
Gareth Liddiard @ Regal Ballroom
0 Comments. 745 Views. Posted 10 Apr 2012 @ 1:29pm.
  Jarrod Quarrell is an arresting artist. It becomes clear why the freedom of experimenting under the pseudonym of Lost Animal was a more enticing pursuit for Quarrell than St Helens, as great as that band was. Even with the talented Shags Chamberlain by his side, it’s Quarrell who captivates the attentive audience with his expressive mannerisms. It’s impossible to remain still when those... Read More
Gareth Liddiard Solo Show
0 Comments. 1,319 Views. Posted 9 Feb 2012 @ 9:48am.
One of Melbourne's finest songwriters, Gareth Liddiard, has announced an intimate solo show for this March. Currently penning new tracks for his upcoming album, Liddiard is soon to be heading over to Japan with The Drones for ATP's I'll Be Your Mirror in Tokyo. Before jet-setting, he's announced a special solo show to treat Melbourne audiences once more, with support coming from Lost Animal. Read More
The Drones - Thursday October 13, The Corner
0 Comments. 1,169 Views. Posted 25 Oct 2011 @ 11:14am.
Why has our mere year-long depravation of Drones felt like an eternity? We've been gifted a run of more than consolatory solo projects in the meantime, but the Australian music landscape just wasn't the same without The Drones. Thankfully the tour celebrating the launch of new live DVD A Thousand Mistakes looks like the beginning of a more absolute return of the group as a collective... Read More
The Drones
0 Comments. 1,697 Views. Posted 7 Oct 2011 @ 8:54am.
The Drones are the kind of band that keeps you awake at night. It's their haunting, indomitable fortitude; the heavy conscience; those arcane, twisted and grave lamentations spilling out like a maniacal speech; the stifling tension, raw grit and cathartic deliverance. Above all, they're an untouchable live band, but trawling through a box full of live footage for the assembling of their four-and-... Read More
Glenn Richards
0 Comments. 2,596 Views. Posted 23 Aug 2011 @ 2:25pm.
Glenn Richards made the difficult move to Hobart a few months ago. Although it pains the Melbourne singer-songwriter to be away from home, he needed to isolate himself in order to write his next batch of songs. "I've spent most of the morning writing a new tune that I'm really happy with," says a palpably enthused Richards from his basement studio. The Augie March frontman has always said that... Read More
Dan Kelly's New Video
0 Comments. 1,927 Views. Posted 8 Mar 2011 @ 1:31pm.
The video for Dan Kelly's latest single, Gap Year Blues, from his AMP and ARIA award nominated album, Dan Kelly's Dream, was released this week.   The track has been described as a retro futuristic ballad, that ruminates on the futility of long distance love. The video was directed by previous Kelly video director, Johann Rashid, and illustrates Kelly's sentiment of long distance love,... Read More
Cloud Control Win The AMP
0 Comments. 2,214 Views. Posted 4 Mar 2011 @ 9:10am.
 It's been a great year for Cloud Control, and now they've gone and won themselves the Australian Music Prize, $30,000 and some very, very well-earned praise.   Beating The Holidays, Dan Kelly, Sally Seltmann, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Gareth Liddiard, Tame Impala, Pikelet and Richard In Your Mind (although The Holidays snagged The Red Bull Prize for $15,000) they'll now... Read More
Dan Kelly Releases New Single
0 Comments. 1,686 Views. Posted 23 Feb 2011 @ 4:38pm.
Gap Year Blues, the new single off of Dan Kelly's AMP and ARIA award nominated album, Dan Kelly's Dream, is set to be released ahead of Kelly's upcoming tour.   The track has been described as a retro futuristic ballad, that ruminates on the futility of long distance love. The single will be accompanied by a music video to be directed by Johann Rashid. Kelly will take his solo show to the... Read More
Mike Noga To Tour With Band Of Horses
0 Comments. 2,024 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:22am.
Mike Noga's solo career is on the up and up.   In between drumming for The Drones and Glenn Richards, Noga has finally finished recording the follow up to his acclaimed 2006 debut solo album Folk Songs.   The new, as yet untitled album will be released in March. As if that wasn't enough, a copy of the record landed in Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses' hands, and Noga has now been... Read More
Dimitron: Benefit for Dimitra
0 Comments. 1,527 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:17am.
Unfortunately, it's not quite as often as in times past that you see people banding together to help each other out. With the 'progress' of modern society leaving people more and more individualised and less connected to others, the world has become a cold place for many people.   Melbourne's music scene, however, has long upheld a tradition of community... Read More
Glenn Richards
0 Comments. 2,386 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:20am.
As a lyricist, Glenn Richards is – undeniably – in a league of his own. Stirringly evocative, literate and perceptive, Richards writes with poise and purpose.   While Augie March take a well-deserved break, the singer-songwriter has released a new album under his own name, but it’s not exactly a solo record. It’s been a few years since Richards and his brother Chris... Read More
Glenn Richards
0 Comments. 1,737 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
As a lyricist, Glenn Richards is – undeniably – in a league of his own. Stirringly evocative, literate and perceptive, Richards writes with poise and purpose. While Augie March take a well-deserved break, the singer-songwriter has released a new album under his own name, but it’s not exactly a solo record. It’s been a few years since Richards and his brother Chris, Dan... Read More
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