So if Bowie last week needs no intro, these blokes don’t! Once again they’re some big hits below but I do like to dig around back catalogs of artists/bands so it’s not all just the greatest hits? Maybe, this ten … Continue reading Top Ten Tracks: The Rolling Stones
So seems I did my fave books last weekend, might be time to name my fave films now! I’m calling my fave movies the ones I repeated watched like again and again, not anything else! These are the ones, well … Continue reading Great Watching: Top 50 Movies
I do listen to music from overseas, it’s not just all Aussie music! Here’s one from this year I totally dig! So as kind-of now part three of playing catch-up of releases this year I’ve not yet blogged about. He … Continue reading New Music: With Animals by Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood
After yesterday’s post and being December I might just try to pile my blog sky high of new albums of 2018 I haven’t blogged about yet, OK? Well, I’ve got two albums today! I think the band Harmony might have … Continue reading New Music: Double Negative by Harmony + Doming Home by Tom Lyngcoln
So I’ve not really blogged much about new albums this year at all but when I have I’ve really totally love it even if my new music so-called not reviews are bloody useless! I guess, the point is just for … Continue reading New Music: Body by The Necks
If you were thinking it got a bit odd in yesterday’s post? Well, you haven’t yet seen today’s! I don’t what the hell NME newspaper/magazine was thinking back in the early 80’s but I guess it’s kind-of cool. But my … Continue reading Portrait Of The Artist As A Consumer: Blixa Bargeld of Einstürzende Neubauten
Digging around trying to find some more of my fave artists doing some kind-of fave music or stuff lists! I’ve come across one for The Fall front-man, singer-songwriter from 1981. Smith off course passed away earlier this year and maybe … Continue reading Portrait Of The Artist As A Consumer: Mark E. Smith of The Fall
Right, this might be totally bonkers to just pick out only ten tracks for someone like him because well, I’ll miss out so much! Maybe, I should done more than just ten for him but didn’t, oh well maybe I … Continue reading Top Ten Tracks: David Bowie
Another yearly playlist today after another list of books. Seem right to have to blog a pile of music after not having any yesterday, hey? We hit the mid-50’s now! My 20 tracks that I picked from 55 should be … Continue reading Playlist: Where I Was In…. 1955?
My blog turning a lot of lists, not that’s a bad thing really! So someone asked for something like this once and I think I did promise to blog something like this a longtime ago or both? Anyway it’s a … Continue reading Great Reading: Top 50 Books
Hunters & Collectors – Human Frailty I’m not sure there’s a more important record to me. I mean, not necessarily in the obvious ‘this influenced me’-way but much more generally. It’s certainly the first album I treasured as my own. Sure … Continue reading Baker’s Dozen: Liars’ Angus Andrew’s Favorite Albums
The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers I think this has been a touchstone for a long time. It’s a real classic art-rock album. It’s art-rock which is what I do! It’s a brilliant proto-punk art-rock album and I’ve always … Continue reading Baker’s Dozen: Ex-The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey’s Favorite Albums
Also a few bonus tracks too! So this is one hell of a crazy cover from, I guess one hell of a crazy album. This new Sun Kil Moon called This Is My Dinner just release at the start of this … Continue reading Cover Versions: AC/DC’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Singer by Sun Kil Moon
Is it too soon for the next yearly playlist? Oh well, here it comes now anyway! I’m down to just 20 tracks for this year and it’s first time without an Aussie opening the playlist! Which are these songs… The … Continue reading Playlist: Where I Was In… 1956?
So after last week with Tori and her piano, I figure it would be good or great to do PJ and her guitar next! Well, Harvey has gone off and learn other instruments and by the end of my little … Continue reading Top Ten Tracks: PJ Harvey
We got a couple of brand new HTRK tracks a couple of days ago, off course I’m blogging them today! Right, some artists I listen to no matter what! Most likely blog about them now too! So lately which is … Continue reading Wicked Songs: Dying of Jealousy & Summer Rain by HTRK
Plus also could be sub-titled what he’s been up to in 2018. Mark L’s had a pretty busy year and to kind-of to finish it, he’s done a cover song BTW which is on a whole album of The Wall by … Continue reading Cover Versions: Pink Floyd’s Nobody Home by Mark Lanegan
Seems there was not much music in yesterday’s post, mainly a list of books and movies here’s a playlist today! Off course, I was nowhere at all! I have said somewhere on this blog before, I was born in late … Continue reading Playlist: Where I Was In… 1957?
What was the process like? Did all of The Drones have to agree on each band? Yeah, we had to agree on everything until we ran low on ideas, I think. Basically all we had to do was think up … Continue reading Live Gigs: ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror 2013 Melbourne curated by ATP & The Drones @ Altona: Books, Movies etc. (Part Three)
Flashback live gig continues! So the next day could be even better than the first one really, even if that was totally insane day and night! I should have really just sleep in the car-park or something but I guess … Continue reading Live Gigs: ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror 2013 Melbourne curated by ATP & The Drones @ Altona: Sunday (Part Two)
Flashback live gig! These two days at ATP festival in Altona just outside Melbourne 2013 will go down in history as the best one they put on in Australia. The first day was Saturday February 16th curated by ATP themselves … Continue reading Live Gigs: ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror 2013 Melbourne curated by ATP & The Drones @ Altona: Saturday (Part One)
So after my last week’s top ten tracks post, who can follow that? What about Tori Amos? She seems like the right and a great artist to do next! I’ve just got to totally mix it up, you know? I … Continue reading Top Ten Tracks: Tori Amos
Part 1. Geography a. Tell us about your hometown. Born in South London. Migrated to Melbourne in 1991. Lived here under a permanent resident visa ever since. b. Name your favourite bands from your neck of the woods. That’d be … Continue reading Citizenship Tests: Liam Andrews from My Disco
Part 1. Geography a. Tell us about your hometown. I still live in my home town. It’s called Warragul. It’s 100 kilometres south-east of Melbourne and I work and live there during the week and play gigs and party in … Continue reading Citizenship Tests: Marcus from The UV Race
Part 1. Geography a. Tell us about your hometown. I was born in Mackay in North Queensland, but grew up just outside of Atherton which is deeper into North Queensland. It’s a predominantly rural area and I didn’t have to … Continue reading Citizenship Tests: Cec Condon from The Mess Hall
Part 1. Geography a. Tell us about your hometown. Perth. Slumber town. It’s stunningly pretty and grotesquely hideous all at once. Void of any culture until you dig deeeeep beneath the surface. And there you will find a goldmine. b. … Continue reading Citizenship Tests: Joe McKee from Snowman
Part 1. Geography a. Tell us about your hometown? [Geelong] Big Ford factory, industrial town. Basically a huge country town. In my early 20s, I used to hang around the Torquay vert ramp with the skaters and we used to … Continue reading Citizenship Tests: Adalita from Magic Dirt
Your album Ex Tropical uses a lot of instruments and sounds you might not regularly hear on stage – so how has the transition been to performing it live? It’s been good. I’ve got most of the sounds on my … Continue reading Interview: Jarrod Quarell for Ex Tropical by Lost Animal
After last Monday’s top ten tracks post, who’s better metal than Metallica? Well, Megadeth off course! I They always won for me because they were always the underdogs compare to the well oil machine of the formerly. The leader of Megadeth … Continue reading Top Ten Tracks: Megadeth
Is it true you were a skinhead in your early Perth days? That’s what Kim Salmon likes people to believe. But I was never a skinhead, although I might have had short hair. I was never a signed-up skinhead. There … Continue reading Interview: Brian Henry Hooper in 2009
‘Shark Fin Blues‘ This song is reliable like a good dog. When we, or our audience, suck, we can play this and it’s like a reset button. It was written in Collingwood over the top of a Karen Dalton banjo … Continue reading Track By Track: Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By The Drones
‘The Cat’ Walking down the street in New Farm where I used to live, there was this large Maori family that lived about a block away in a big red brick house – the daughters would sit on the back … Continue reading Track By Track: The Cat by Ben Salter
‘Cherry Cherry’ I went into this album with a clearer set of ideas of stories that I wanted to tell and themes for songs. In my notebook, above the title ‘Cherry Cherry’ I wrote a little note to myself that … Continue reading Track By Track: To the Dollhouse by Melodie Nelson
‘The Decommissioner‘ Inspired by a khaki combo spotted in American Apparel, our hero goes on an eco-terrorist spree through Gippsland. Pursued by the feds, he forms a secret indie band with the help of other like-minded individuals, and tours the … Continue reading Track By Track: Dan Kelly’s Dream by Dan Kelly
‘Mount Beauty’ “To climb Mount Beauty!” There is no Mount Beauty. There’s a town [in north-eastern Victoria] but no Mount as such. What a letdown. At a recent show a Mount Beauty resident let me know (by way of heckle) … Continue reading Track By Track: In Blood Memory by Jen Cloher
So what 80’s act can I follow Madonna with in my top ten posts? How about Metallica! They’re now on yet another world tour but I totally disliked that last new album Hard-Wired from two years ago, everyone else seem to think … Continue reading Top Ten Tracks: Metallica
