I’d never really seen any band crowd fund successfully before, but I spose if anyone is gonna do it in Adelaide, it would be The Honey Pies. I think they were going for $3000, of which you could contribute anything you wanted. $30 got you a whole swag of goodies and $100 got you even [...]
My mate Luke has recently started a podcast to do what he does best – promote Adelaide music. It’s a pretty professional affair, with Luke providing some commentary and spinning some great tunes. Reminds me of listening to Home & Hosed. http://blog.playpauseplay.com/2011/10/play-pause-play-podcast-episode-five.html
WOAHHHHHHHH! Hot damn. This shit was off tap. It was like an international artist’s touring production. Old abandoned theatre. HUGE stage. Full on lighting rig. Avid endorsed sound guy. Gigantic inflatable spaceman (one of those ones from the fringe). Merch stand run by Dangerfield. An actual spaceman dancing on stage. A guitar solo in an [...]
The Amcats – Peggy Sue (Official Music Video) from Andrew Shanks on Vimeo. The Amcats recently SMASHED New York. Played CMJ and all that shit. Pretty fucking sick. http://www.theaureview.com/interviews/the-au-interview-at-cmj-shane-and-renee-of-the-amcats-adelaide
Check it. http://thebatterykids.bandcamp.com/
My friends’ band scored the soundtrack to this Yellow Pages ad. Pretty awesome hey. Check out their wares here: http://radiospectacular.bandcamp.com/album/sugar-baby-honey-child http://www.radiospectacular.com/
Just some half ass tracks that I’m never gonna finish, so I’m just gonna throw ‘em out there. http://soundcloud.com/savetwofour
DEJA. Totally. Rad night with rad peeps. http://www.theaureview.com/melbourne/deja-the-grace-darling-hotel-melbourne-26-05-11
I have struggled to write this review. Not because of Amadeus in any way, rather I’ve just been doing A LOT of writing lately for both the AU review and my day job. But I have known what I wanted to say about these guys since watching them bust out some smooth tunes in the swank [...]
I lose my shit over these guys. And I’ve worked out it all comes down to one thing: the music. When I write bass riffs, I’m attempting to come up with something like what they play. Of course I don’t even come close. The new single is tight, it’s condensed and about as radio friendly [...]
I’m so postmodern that I just don’t talk anymore, I wear different coloured t-shirts according to my mood. I’m so postmodern that I work from home as a surf life saving consumer hotline. I’m so postmodern all my clothes are made out of sleeping bags, I don’t need pockets, I’m a pocket myself. I’m so [...]
I cannot stop listening to this. Heaps looking forward to the album. http://deja.bandcamp.com/album/lp-preview
I’ve never really taken a lot of notice of the International Songwriting Competition emails that always flood my inbox, but I was interested to see the finalists released recently. And it seems Australia did pretty bloody well. 46 finalists by my count. Good one. Shame there’s no Adelaide representation, but overall a good result for [...]
Band posters are awesome. Back in the 60s and 70s they were awesome, and looking back at all the old posters is cool. So I figured I’d start collecting some of the awesome ones I see in Adelaide. An archive of the history of Adelaide’s music scene in graphic form, if you will. Or if [...]
I saw a lot of live music over the three days of Fuse, including a mind blowing set from my boys The Battery Kids on Friday night at Producer’s Bar. On Thursday night, at about 12:30am and after a very long day of conferencing, Melbourne electro-pop band DEJA took to the stage at Producer’s Bar. [...]
Fuse Festival was seriously the best thing I’ve ever done. It was awesome. Networking, relationship building, getting new ideas, meeting new people, talking about music, promoting the Adelaide scene. It was 72 hours of hard work, too many cigarettes and no sleep but I would do it every day. Meeting the managers behind some of [...]
The Battery Kids’ Shannon Juvan and I sat down today and finally got our online presence totally sorted. You can now find everything Batty Kids at http://thebatterykids.com/ From our main site you can hear our songs on Myspace, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, review us on Unearthed, watch our videos on Youtube, [...]
Like Leaves had their debut album launch on 14 January 2011, setting the bar pretty damn high for the new year in Adelaide. I was well stoked by their impressive album artwork (above) that was done by ex-Young & Restless member Ross Paxman. That is some guru art right there. http://rosspaxman.blogspot.com/2010/12/like-leaves.html Not only were Like [...]
If you live in Adelaide and love music, you gotta love Spoz. This institution of the scene is always there, up the front with his point and shoot camera taking thousands of photos just to get four or five shots for his Rant. His annual Spoz awards are a great stocktake of the year in [...]
The Battery Kids are moving to Melbourne. Come see them off at our awesome farewell/Christmas party.
WOW. HOLY FUCKING WOW. The Honey Pies are quite possibly one of the best bands I have ever seen. What a massive launch party. Check out my review here: http://www.theaureview.com/adelaide/the-honey-pies-jive-adelaide-12-11-10
Luke Penman writes a blog supporting Adelaide’s music scene called Play/Pause/Play. It’s pretty awesome. What is even more awesome is that he’s always supported The Battery Kids too. As part of his series on bands the should be played on Triple J, we got a mention. I’d have to say, I do agree with him… [...]
On 22 October The Battery Kids played a rocking showcase as part of the Coopers Alive festival, with Before the Aftermath and Saving Savanah. It was a fucking kick ass rock show, with three solid performances and a reasonably full house of people ready to party. Check out the photos from the night here (Thanks [...]
Epic show. Great setting, lots of booze, cops got called, some guy was dancing atop wine barrels. All in all, a good night. http://www.theaureview.com/adelaide/the-swiss-bird-in-hand-winery-adelaide-27-08-10
Last Thursday (19th August) I finally managed to make it to Psychetronica Adelaide, an event that founder Daniel Feuerriegel describes as combining live art, music, visuals (VJing and electronic expression forms) and other types of expression (art architecture, communal animation). Psychetronica is a bit fringe and experimental, and it features artists you’re not likely hear [...]
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