March 2010
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Loudspeeka Cassingle! And Launch Party!
Throw your hands in the air! P-p-party! Party!
It’s been a while coming, and it kind of happened by accident, but my rave-rap anthem Loudspeeka is geting a cassingle release!
You can stream it here:
And if you click into my store, you can pre-order a copy of the CASSINGLE, which will be in a glorious plastic case, on a printed colour cassette with a shiny inlay. You will...
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My Minor Inconveniences Are Now Your Page Six News
For those of you that don’t live here and so might have missed it, Perth was hit by fairly major storms on Monday. Not, like, Haiti-level major, but for a small city where exciting things are generally thought to “happen somewhere else”, that place usually being Melbourne, it was kind of a big deal.
The back half of my house flooded and my car broke down, forcing me to run...
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New Single Announcement WEDNESDAY!!!
I don’t know how to break this to you, so I’m just going to say it. It’s important, so I’m going to shout it in caps.
I HAVE A NEW SINGLE.
IT IS COMING OUT ON SATURDAY APRIL 3, WITH A PERTH LAUNCH AT MOJO’S BAR IN FREMANTLE.
I WILL ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH ARTISTS TOMORROW.
YOU WILL ALSO BE ABLE TO STREAM IT AND PREORDER IT FROM TOMORROW.
I can’t tell you...
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It's Not That We Can't Ever Have What Jarvis...
Jarvis Cocker is a pretty fascinating guy to watch. I mean, in a broader, overall career sense, as well as in the way he moves around a stage. His band Pulp were my favourite band from the time they put out Different Class to even a couple of years after their last record together. I usually get bored of things, but I can keep coming back to their records and I think I’ve actually...
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Kinetic Carnival Will Blow Your Head Clean Off
I’ve mentioned this in an earlier post, but I’m really excited about this show: I’m playing the Kinetic Carnival, a new film festival bringing together people who are into using film in wierd ways. It is a pretty exciting program, including Supermarket from South Australia who I actually suggested on a whim after they played with me in Adelaide and the festival director...
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In Which The Artist Rants For Many Paragraphs...
I was having a fairly shitty morning playing Debt Collector (my least favourite game, but being a self managed artist in an industry where nobody likes to actually pay anyone, it’s one I have to play every so often), and feeling pretty shit.
Suddenly my brain became fixated on the idea of hearing of Montreal’s party jam Misguisings. And almost instantly upon pressing play on the...
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Drinking In Fremantle And Not Hating It
Went out drinking last night with some friends and stumbled across this new place calling itself The East End Bar & Lounge where The Bog used to be. Thought I’d let you know about it in case you’re in the area, as this kind of place is definately to be encouraged.
It’s really nice inside - big old, comfortable chairs and beautiful curtained walls. It’s definately the...
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6000 Red Want To Be Like You
Geoff Baker, who you might know from my sleeve notes as the gentleman who recorded my vocals for the Bash Myself EP and has been helping me lay some down for the new album too (along with other things, he’s a bit of an enabler), was until fairly recently in a band called 6000 Red.
They did pretty well, getting some interesting ad placements in the US like this one:
But the...
[REC] Return To Studio-ing.
This image is irrelevant. I am not this man. This is not my gear. I never wear denim. I have fuck all resources.
So I’m back to recording, in between working on stuff for my upcoming Perth and Melbourne shows. I’ve been hammering away on some tracks I used to really enjoy playing but that musically didn’t fit anymore into what I do; one of them is this semi-industrial thing...
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John Whitney Is Better At Being A Pioneering 70's...
Title says what I wanted to say. His work is pretty awesome, he basically invented the lifestyle Flash animation nerds around the world enjoy today. Painstakingly sitting around computers, inputting pretty mathematical patterns and colours. This is my favourite thing of his, but if you’re in the mood for looking at pretty digital things, search his name on YouTube and see what comes up,...
Another Post About A Male Strip Club
So this should be fun. On March 19 I’ll be taking over the Republic’s Horror Shop show. Last time I played The Horror Shop, it was when it was running at Shape, which provided a thousand hilarious audience reactions from the electro emo hipsters in attendance - there were awesome people too, which meant there were people to share those fucked up reactions with.
The Republic is a...
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Tomás Ford's Disco Bunker: Thoughts On It.
I’m still recovering from my time in Tomás Ford’s Disco Bunker eight weeks eight days later.
It was a pretty awesome experience, I’m kind of weighing up how I thought it went; on one hand theatres are agonisingly middle class, a conventionally seated crowd is really hard to work with and I think the ticketed nature of the event priced out a few people I would have liked to be...
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I Also Want To Ride A White Horse
Had a power fun spoken word gig at The Moon this arvo. Though I’d set aside this arvo for blogging, I still haven’t had a sec to chill out since Disco Bunker, so I will blog about the AWESOME goodness of that gig tomorrow.
Meanwhile, I’m watching Goldfrapp videos. The new one (above) is pretty hilarious, almost as good as a track I only recently discovered because it was...
Disco Bunker Flashbacks
Photo by William Buck for FasterLouder.com.au
Well, what a terrible dribbling of shit that last post was.
Coverage for Disco Bunker is slowly starting to seep out of the media; FasterLouder have posted this great gallery of shots from the shows which give you an idea of what you missed out on, and Spaceshipnews have posted the first review and incidentally made me their first “Band Of The...
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TV. Why, TV? Why?
In the two days since my Disco Bunker (which went off by the way), I’ve had some time to chill out and watch TV. Which is awesome (will post about it tomorrow).
Unfortunately, everything I’ve seen has been SHIT.
I am currently watching Ross Noble recreate Billy Connolly’s 90’s Australian travelogue show. Almost shot for shot. Why is this happening? Surely he is better...