Great performance of a wonderful song, one sure to go down in Australian legend.
Courtney Barnett T-Shirt Watch: Batpiss are a sludge metal band from Melbourne, just released a new album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AixU9XKgXFc
This is such a weird thing. Some context: Channel 7 is a commercial free-to-air TV station here in Australia, aimed squarely at the baby-boomer market for advertising and programming. That means not many people watching this show (except all those who tuned in especially) would have the foggiest idea who she is.
It is indeed like a 60 Minutes profile, but we don't have the added bonus of large-audience talk shows with awesome music on all the time, like in the US. Indie here is very 'separate', instead catered to primarily by radio by the government-funded youth station Triple J and various community radio stations in their respective cities. Courtney's been all over those.
Also the shirt she's wearing in the interview is Darren Hanlon, he's a bit of a legend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyi19WZ_zmw
Good call, that link works for me. Excellent, excellent track.
I did a quick check to see if it was on Youtube by searching 'penetrating eye', a life tip: DO NOT DO THIS!!
Blechh.
I didn't get any of the specials but I did pick up one each from Eat Skull, Lost Animal and New War. Three very great doing-the-dishes records that's for sure.
I saw them in early 2012 and Hook wasn't there. He's been announced as a solo support for the Happy Mondays tour here in a few months; I don't think he's playing with New Order.
Mess + Noise have an awesome feature on Australian guitarist/weirdo Kirin J Callinan that flicks between the recording of his upcoming debut album and his infamous Sugar Mountain set earlier this year:
http://www.messandnoise.com/articles/4568052
Really great Grungecake piece by Gavin DeCantillon on white kids dropping the n-bomb:
http://grungecake.com/content/media/columns/beer-and-a-shot/soft-a-vs-hard-r
I don't like their reviews either, but I think they stay away from the musical content because this is 2013 and the album is almost definitely streaming somewhere on the internet. If you want to know what it sounds like you can just go and listen to it.
Festivals here in Australia hit some kind of critical mass in the late 00's where they suddenly became insanely popular, selling out in seconds. One or two years later the same thing started happening to Coachella and Lollapalooza and it seemed to take everyone in the US by surprise too.
I still head along because down here it's usually the only way to see most of the bands on the lineup until next time they tour, 2 or three years later.
I've also been to Lolla in the US which felt like an Australian festival only bigger and with more drugs, and Roskilde in Denmark which was a different beast entirely. They book that one full of headliners and buzz bands too, but also a heap of arty, off-trend genres and and out there music. It's the only time I've found a major festival to be really exciting, and all the others seem like they are going through the motions by comparison.
A major festival could be amazing if it's well curated and unique. Instead, everyone books variations on the same lineup and presents an interchangable show as a result. I saw an interview with the lady in charge of one of Australia's most popular: Splendour In The Grass. She said she'd love to go back to the fetival's more quiet, hippy-ish roots and stop booking the current batch of international festival acts. But she won't, because it's worth fat cash to get Phoenix and Blur this year, or whoever it turns out to be.
It's a shame but it reflects, in a way, a similar problem with the music itself: what we consider more artistically valuable usually makes far less money.
What? I'm glad Grinderman back. Everyone who enjoys music or has trouble in the bedroom should be glad Grinderman is back.
Don't ever call me plain again.
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