Tag: "The Living End"

The Living End @ The Corner
0 Comments. 261 Views. Posted 22 Jan 2013 @ 1:07pm.
I will admit, regrettably, that I attended The Living End’s show with a firmly instilled and rather smug sense of irony. It was, after all, many years since the band first enamoured my 13 year old self with their anti-authoritarian anthem Prisoner Of Society. It was also many years since I totally dismissed them as mainstream fodder, so revisiting their debut self-titled album seemed an apt way... Read More
Q&A: Kingswood
0 Comments. 515 Views. Posted 11 Dec 2012 @ 10:21am.
So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? The band’s name is Kingswood (NOT The Rubens). I (Justin) drive the van.   What do you reckon people will say you sound like? We sound like the love child of Queens Of The Stone Age and Led Zeppelin, who fornicated with the love child from Band Of Skulls and Jimi Hendrix, and then they had a child with the love child... Read More
The Living End
0 Comments. 550 Views. Posted 6 Dec 2012 @ 10:10am.
Towards the end of the ‘90s, the Antipodes was good to guitar-heavy Australian music with Jebediah, Regurgitator and The Whitlams hauling arse up the indie charts. When Melbourne trio The Living End unleashed their double A-side release Second Solution/Prisoner Of Society, it promptly collected jewels across genres when it was the only Australian single to get up there in the sales charts,... Read More
The Living End Add Even More Melbourne Shows
0 Comments. 842 Views. Posted 10 Sep 2012 @ 12:13pm.
After selling out The Corner a whopping nine times with their retrospective tour, in which a different album is played through each night, The Living End have added two more Melbourne dates. The Living End will now perform Roll On once more, plus a special under-18 performance of The Living End.   Tickets to all other Melbourne shows have sold out, so get in quick! Read More
Living End Announce Encore Show
0 Comments. 689 Views. Posted 19 Jul 2012 @ 2:07pm.
In a career that sees the band approaching their 20th year together, Melbourne punk staple the Living End have announced a little-over-a-week's worth of shows at the Corner Hotel, each evening the band performing one of their six albums in full. However, after a high demand for the The Living End performances, the band have had to announce a fourth show. The Living End was the band's 1998 debut... Read More
Core - July 4, 2012
0 Comments. 614 Views. Posted 5 Jul 2012 @ 8:32am.
Get excited! Melbourne’s much loved Smith Street Band have set a release date for their new album as well as announcing a huge headlining national tour this September. Poison City Records revealed this week that the Smith Street Band’s second album will be titled Sunshine & Technology and will hit stores on August 24. Melbourne will get an album launch on August 25 at The Tote. Shit yeh!... Read More
The Living End Retrospective 2012 Tour
0 Comments. 1,097 Views. Posted 2 Jul 2012 @ 9:36am.
Well you can't accuse The Living End of doing things by halves. While most bands are content with recreating a single album in full on tour, The Living End are going all out and performing all six of their albums in full over seven massive nights. The schedule is as follows:   Tuesday December 11 - The Living End Wednesday December 12 - White Noise Thursday December 13 - State Of Emergency... Read More
Stonefield
0 Comments. 832 Views. Posted 10 Apr 2012 @ 2:10pm.
  What started out as jamming in the family shed soon turned into something extraordinary for Stonefield. Coming from a tiny rural town just north of Melbourne, the four Findlay sisters – Amy, Hannah, Sarah and Holly, were just coming to the end of recording their first EP, Through The Clover, when their mum mentioned that they should apply for triple j’s Unearthed competition. Apprehensive... Read More
Yacht Club DJs Tour
0 Comments. 1,597 Views. Posted 9 Feb 2012 @ 10:04am.
Beat are proudly presenting Australia's own mash-up maestros the Yacht Club DJs, when they hit the road throughout March and April on the “They Mostly Come At Night...Mostly” tour.  Frightening both capital cities and regional towns, including Toowoomba, Byron Bay, Gold Coast, Geelong, Ballarat, Hobart, Wollongong, Canberra and Newcastle, Yacht Club DJs take to the stage with their take on... Read More
Snakadaktal
0 Comments. 6,183 Views. Posted 29 Nov 2011 @ 9:09am.
Triple j unearthed winners and latest signing to I Oh You records, Snakadaktal seem almost too good to be true. The teenaged band are a perfect synthesis of the best lo-fi pop produced in the last decade. All strange, laid back but urgent arrangements with catchy melodies and thoughtful lyrics, they're at times reminiscent of the retreating wave of French pop vocalists in the tradition of air and... Read More
Pyramid Rock Final Lineup Announcement
0 Comments. 2,388 Views. Posted 23 Nov 2011 @ 3:52pm.
Following on from ripper first and second lineup announcements, this year's Pyramid Rock has put the cherry on the cake with a third and final batch of lineup additions. Leading the charge will be recent Beat cover stars Blue King Brown. Also ringing in the new year will be The Delta Riggs, Nick Thayer, Light Year, DJ Cecille, Westernsynthetics, and to make you lol irl we have funnymen ... Read More
The Living End : For Another Day
0 Comments. 913 Views. Posted 16 Nov 2011 @ 12:53pm.
For Another Day sounds oddly like Snow Patrol, all hearty, emotional and stadium-rocking in scope. The lyrics, though kind of vague, are full of bolshy platitudes about lively deeply and bravely: "We will win the fight, step into the light, only fail when we don't try…If we only have our rights for another day, if we only have our hearts for another day, then we will have our time again." No... Read More
The Living End - Thursday September 8, The Palace
0 Comments. 1,324 Views. Posted 20 Sep 2011 @ 1:48pm.
In a 2006 interview, The Living End’s Chris Cheney declared: “Please quote me on this. I am not playing Prisoner Of Society when I'm 32, 33 years old.'' Fortunately for the sold-out crowd at The Palace on Thursday and Friday nights, Cheney is not a man of his word. Voted number four in triple j’s Hottest 100 Australian Albums Of All Time, The Living End’s self titled debut became the soundtrack... Read More
Core - September 7, 2011
0 Comments. 1,083 Views. Posted 7 Sep 2011 @ 10:06am.
Brokencyde, largely believed to be one of the biggest musical abortions of all time, have announced their first ever tour to Australia this October. I wanna be the bigger person here guys, but fuck it's difficult to avoid the temptation to bleat endlessly about how appalling this band is in every single sense of the word. It'd bring tears to my eyes were it not so genuinely fascinating how... Read More
The Living End : The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating
0 Comments. 2,623 Views. Posted 3 Aug 2011 @ 9:57am.
While groovy dance beats replace the usual pinch of rockabilly in The Living End's sixth album, it's no less enticing. The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating opens with In The Morning, a heady concoction of steady percussion, direct guitar thrashing and Chris Cheney's familiar voice lamenting suburbia.   The following tracks are bear a similarly gritty theme, yet the tantalising... Read More
The Living End
0 Comments. 1,621 Views. Posted 27 Jul 2011 @ 1:31pm.
The Living End's singer/guitarist Chris Cheney and family moved to New York from February to April 2010 to get into a new headspace for songwriting, and Cheney also lost his father during the recording sessions. The result of all this upheaval is The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating . Album number six is 40 minutes and 4 seconds of classic Living End but with a renewed focus on... Read More
The Living End To Repeat Performance
0 Comments. 1,374 Views. Posted 13 Jul 2011 @ 10:40am.
After swiftly selling out their first date in Melbourne, modern-day rock legends The Living End have announced a second Melbourne show.   After eager fans snapped up tickets to the first show at The Palace, a second night has just gone on sale for the launch of The Living End's sixth LP, The End Is Just The Beginning Repeating.   As well as crafting one of the finest Australian rock... Read More
The Living End : The End Is Just The Beginning Repeating
2 Comments. 2,306 Views. Posted 21 Jun 2011 @ 11:34am.
The Living End marshal every cliché of our collective existential crisis (I think I’m the dead-eyed office worker, you may be the model citizen or the “restless and bored”) and bang them all together in this epic emo charger, which has all the urgency of a coming apocalypse and all the heroic optimism of an X-Men movie. My Chemical Romance and 30 Seconds To Mars would be awful proud. Read More
Over Reactor : Lose Your Delusion
0 Comments. 3,157 Views. Posted 20 May 2011 @ 5:05pm.
This Melbourne duo certainly have a 'throw everything at it, up-to-and-including the kitchen sink' approach to making an album. Having fewer members to please and placate than the typical band, creatively Over-Reactor obviously simply let it all hang out musically, and do whatever they hell they want to do. The band, for the uninitiated, are Ezekiel Ox, the indomitable former frontman of the... Read More
Splendour Lineup - O RLY?
3 Comments. 2,652 Views. Posted 13 Apr 2011 @ 11:31am.
It's 10.15 now so you've probably already read about this on your phone waiting at the train station, but let's give some mention to Splendour In The Grass, that huge festival that moved up to Woodfordia last year and celebrated its new venue with a huge party. This year is set to be pretty big as well, with the lineup featuring all kinds of hugeness, including the hugest of them all, Kanye... Read More
Falls Festival Day One
0 Comments. 1,166 Views. Posted 25 Jan 2011 @ 1:52pm.
How weird. Joan Jett ringing in a New Year? Considering she was last relevant in music circles in 1982, it was an odd choice for Falls to go with a heritage punk act. The vast majority of the crowd wouldn’t know her, and it’s even more odd when – after a number of false starts and a sound outage onstage – she tried to get Falls to countdown to 2011 three times. Last... Read More
Galleon
0 Comments. 2,198 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:17am.
It took a lot of guts for Galleon frontman Nick Deegan to kiss his old band Foreshore goodbye. Considered something of a superstar band in their hometown of Adelaide, Deegan’s previous group had grown used to supporting heavyweights INXS and Nickelback in massive venues like the Entertainment Centre… But something was missing, it didn’t feel quite right, according to... Read More
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