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PEATES RIDGE! Artist Applications open AND second round of tickets on sale!
Friday, 03 July 2009
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Sunday, 14 June 2009
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Thursday, 11 June 2009
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Wednesday, 03 June 2009
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| Sky Larkin - The Golden Spike |
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
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Sky Larkin - The Golden Spike
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
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Gentleman Reg, Jet Black - Review
Thursday, 28 May 2009
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Bloc Party, Intimacy: Remixed - Review
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Girls I've had Sex With ... Lou Reed Eatcha Heart Out!
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Thursday, 07 May 2009
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Leaves of Glass
Tuesday, 05 May 2009
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is undoubtedly a criminal thing for anyone to christen an album, let alone one as good as this. But then again, to paraphrase old Bill S., what’s in a name? Those whom we call Phoenix by any other name would still sound as sweet.
Footy season commenced in Melbourne with changed spectator rules. Swearing has been banned and every transgression now incurs a fine: $150 per word. This means footy now costs X for admission, program, two pies, a half a dozen beers, plus sets you back a week’s pay if your team is shit and swear-worthy.
I started to scrawl this in the hours after the death of Michael Jackson, with pen and paper due to an absentee laptop. So what would probably have been some sort of factual obituary has instead by necessity become more of a stream-of-consciousness spillage. And although I hesitated in choosing this topic to write about, the impact of the death of Michael Jackson has been too great to ignore. In the short time that has passed since official confirmation of his death, I have read some 47,735 Facebook notifications, heard a hell of a lot of (mostly bad, recycled) jokes, and attended an impromptu street party/MJ tribute.
Laputa: Castle in the Sky – now that was a movie. It had everything: pirates, robots, mysterious flying cities … the whole shebang. Cross that sense of fantasy with the kitchen sink lyricism of British poet Philip Larkin and what do you get? Sky Larkin, a band whose debut album The Golden Spike blends head-in-the-clouds optimism with gritty proletariat psalms.