June 2010
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Flashback To Awesome
Sometimes I forget how awesome I am. Luckily, now there’s YouTube to remind me. Power awesome. This is from 2007, at the end of my first national headlining tour. The show is at Shape and it was fuuuuuun.
I miss those shoes.
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High Fives To Kids Of 88
I just wanted to correct something I blogged earlier. I mentioned how I was looking forward to the Kids Of 88 show last night but that they possibly weren’t really my kind of thing. They definately were. It was like Perth band Harlequin League covering Kylie Minogue’s electro tracks with a live show that reminded me a bit of Hot Chip. Anyway, you would have totally loved them....
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Gaining A Singing Voice, Losing Vowels
Pivot. Well, “PVT”, officially, but I will be entering their new record on my iTunes under “Pivot”, because I don’t let American metal bands decide anything about the way I conduct my business.
Anyway, this is just a quick blog post because they’ve just put this out and I love it. The bit where it slows down in particular is really powerful and I can only...
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Miles To Go Before I Sleep
When you put things on a list, they look so much less difficult than you know they are going to be.
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I Raped Yr Song, Dude.
I’m sorry, Zack. I’m really sorry. This remix was supposed to be awesome. Something is going wrong.
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Rockingham Famous
From the Sound Telegraph, Rockingham’s local paper. I was also in the Weekend Courier the same week, but I’ll give you this one as it’s a slightly better interview on my part.
Anyway, if you didn’t know before, I grew up in Rockingham. It was a bit of an odd place for a gentleman of my nature to grow up, what with its’ working class industrial area/naval town kind...
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I Hope You Leave Enough Room For My Fist Because...
I’ve just posted a new video blog at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS66Ms8xYSA
Which features a bootleg remix of the theme from The Running Man that I’ve been tinkering around with for a while now. There’s a content claim on the video, which means I can’t post it here and it’ll probably be taken down over the next day or so.
But at least you can go and get...
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Kids Of '88
So I’ve just confirmed to play a set with an act from New Zealand called Kids Of 88 at Mojo’s on the 27th of this month; they do a kind of pop/electro thing that reminds me of a more indie version of TV Rock or Rogue Traders, something like that… if I can say that without it sounding like an insult. You know what I mean. It’s a different kind of band for me to play...
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Ill Advised Late Night Public Image...
This is my new thing. Video blogs. I dig them. I plan to do more of them as they are extremely self indulgent fun. To kick things off, I’ve done two this weekend for you:
This whole thing started because I was messing around with the vocals for Nice and started craving the attention I get on stage. Turns out from stupid ego-based bullshit, beautiful things can grow.
I’m...
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Boomtown Boombox: Snow Bros
I’m not sure if you were at my Amplifier gig for the WAMi’s a little while ago; if you were, you may have seen the act before me, Snow Bros.
They’re a Perth production duo who have just put out a very nice collection of beats called Second Mystery. It’s got a cartoon spy theme groove to it and I must say I’m feeling rather partial to it at this late hour while I wait...
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I Am Sitting In A Video Room.
I’ve just come across this fantastic bit of video (thanks to this Gawker article); its’ inspired by the Alvin Lucier piece recently performed in Perth by the new music ensemble Decibel with Peter Holland on vocals, I Am Sitting In A Room.
Sound artist Ontologist has taken the original concept of that piece in a very different direction and has ended up with one of the more elegant...
May 2010
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Kylie Requires Serious Statistical Analysis
What are the actual stats on this? Are people who wear foundation really more likely to fornicate with each other? Is it really possible that Kylie has been with that many people (luckily she dates mostly actors so casting this video would have been easy)? How much plastic surgery can you have before your face starts to take on a rubbery, bouncy appearance? Is this song meant to make me feel...
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Patricia Piccinini Freaks Me Out
This is a still from the first work I ever encountered by Patricia Piccinini, Plasmid Region. I’d never felt such a strong sense that I was about to vomit, just from watching a video. These things mutate and change and it’s seriously, amazingly disgusting. Or it was at the time anyway. Taken along with some other work from her flooring We Are Family exhibition, she instantly became...