The Orstrahyun (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
How The Angels Helped Create Grunge By Darryl Mason Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, in an interview with Kathy McCabe, praises The Angels : I grew up on (The Angels albums) No Exit and Night Attack...That is the Australian music that meant so much to me, maybe because me and my friends were the only ones who knew them." Here's the (now pretty hilarious) album cover, and name change, the American...
Trinketization (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
First band I went to see was Skyhooks, though apparently I was taken to Sunbury Festival, but I do not remember (first international act I saw was Deep Purple, followed soon after by the Sweet). Anyway, Australia had some fine live bands allthrough the seventies, and thanks to things like GTK, Meldrum’s Countdown and Rage, [...]
captains dead (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
photo by kjell b persson honestly, i can barely pronounce their name. im guessing its something like ambassador but with a “s” in front of it? the band is sambassadeur hails from somewhere that isnt probably within a few thousand miles of my zip code of 70115. if i was a bit more educated, i [...]
The Vehicles Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
By Graham McKenzie There are two options for buying car insurance. One is going through insurance middlemen and independent agents to buy the insurance. The Direct Car Insurance option is the other one in which we buy insurance directly from an authorized insurance company. This can be illustrated with an example. When you have pain in your joints and fell sick, you have two options. You can either...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I have recommended separately a new collection of music writings by Robert Forster, formerly of the Go Betweens Without wishing to steal his thunder, Word readers may be interested / amused in his list. My personal favourite is #7, closely followed by #10. 1 Never follow an artist who describes his or her work as dark. 2. The second last song on every album is the weakest. 3. Great bands tend to look...
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A few more postgame chats like this, and I might start following the 12 man game on a regular basis. The CFL has fined Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach Mike Kelly $2000 after a profane discussion was heard on the team’s flagship station after a 48-13 rout at the hands of Montreal yesterday. From the [...]
Electric Skeleton (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
I have a bit of a confession to make: Although I was impressed by what very little of Oh Mercy’s material I had heard, the real reason why I bought Oh Mercy’s In The Nude For Love EP was because I liked the title. And I really hope I’m not the only one, firstly because it [...]
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Are the Replacements going to be inducted? Sonic Youth? Husker Du? Joy Division? The Go Betweens? Pavement? Guided By Voices? If they’re not, it’s bullshit: for people who actually still really, truly care about rock and roll, these are the bands that have carried on in the tradition the Hall of Fame has always held dear. But if they are inducted, the Hall of Fame will surely lose the...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Robert Forster of the Go Betweens has put out a collection of his writings on rock'n'roll related topics. Reviews etc. I understand he wrote also for the Sunday Times as well as Australian publications. It is a good read. http://theincblot.blogspot.com/2009/10/interview-with-robert-forster-aut...
mithering times (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Yesterday was this blog's first birthday and although I fully intended to post something, I never felt quite in the right mood. I exceeded my initial target of posting, on average, at least once a week. As for the direction of the blog, that's something which has evolved during the year, and I'm still not entirely sure what sort of blog this is. In some ways, it's a personal blog with most of the personal...
Grubtunes (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
This week's band of the week is a four piece from Australia with a childish, twee-like charm but that records sophisticated pop not unlike The Go-Betweens if they had a modern Phil Spector producing them. The band of the week is... THE CRAYON FIELDS!!! This Melbourne band sounds like a lot of other bands, but luckily they're a lot of really kick-ass bands. Imagine the ornate beauty of The Zombies...
Another Lost Shark (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Brisbane icon, Robert Forster, is about to dish out the facts in his first book, The 10 Rules of Rock ‘n’ Roll: Collected Music Writings 2005 – 2009 (Black Inc). As one of the founding members of The Go-Betweens (along with the late G.W. McLennan), Forster is responsible for penning some of this country’s best loved songs. [...]
The Plummet Onions (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
One of the exciting things about London when I moved here was the chance to see bands play live: awesome bands, and lots of ‘em. Everyone plays London. Now that I’m leaving in a few weeks I’m reflecting back on who I’ve seen. I have not wasted my gig-going opportunity. The list of bands I’ve [...]
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Streets named after musicians are ten a penny these days. But the Go-Betweens having a bridge renamed in their honour is a real rock'n'roll accolade It is a truth not universally acknowledged that the Go-Betweens are the greatest Australian band that ever lived. To know them was to love them. The only problem being that very few people actually got to know them. Each and every Go-Betweens release...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
It's not often a band finds its name transferring into the world of architecture. Only the most famous of pop's figures -- Beatle John Lennon , for instance -- usually find their moniker on solid concrete and steel. A round of applause, then, to the good burghers of Brisbane, Australia, who named the city's latest bridge over the Brisbane River the Go-Between Bridge, in honour of indie band the Go-Betweens,...
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