Thanks to Keith Parsons for the photos. Last Saturday night Melbourne’s hardest working band, The Basics, played a wonderfully energetic, humorous, and fun show at the Northcote Social Club, very ably supported by Georgia Fair, who themselves seem destined for very big things.
Continue readingGig Review: Powderfinger @ The Sidney Myer Music Bowl, 29th October
Powderfinger played their last Melbourne show to a sold out, enormous, and lovestruck crowd at the Sidney Music Bowl last night. It was a fitting farewell to the Australian music stalwarts, who played a remarkably well balanced set full of old classics. They overcame the inherent problems of playing a venue such as the Sidney […]
Continue readingGig Review: Boy And Bear @ The East Brunswick Club, 23rd October
Last night Boy And Bear played what I believe was one of their first ever Melbourne headline shows. They have developed out of sight as a band since I first saw them at Homebake last year, and this was easily the most complete set I’ve seen them play to date.
Continue readingGig Review: Yacht Club DJs @ The Corner Hotel, 16th October
Without sounding like toooo much of a pretentious dickhead, I honestly believe that a part of writing is accepting that there are some things which words simply cannot adequately describe. The Yacht Club DJs set at the Corner Hotel on Saturday night was one of these things.
Continue readingGig Review: Cloud Control @ The Corner Hotel, 1st October
Last Friday night was no less than my seventh time seeing Cloud Control live, so it’s safe to say that there were few surprises. However there’s a good reason they’re my most seen live band, and they put on a show that demonstrated this perfectly.
Continue readingGig Review: The Good China @ Pure Pop Records, 19th September
Yesterday, The Good China played an intimate and achingly beautiful set to a capacity crowd at the iconic Pure Pop Records courtyard (which admittedly is about 40 people). It was a stunning, albeit short, set, and I couldn’t have been more impressed.
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November 1, 2010 
