I’m going to ended this month of June with my Marianne Faithfull TTT post today. I think everyone must know who she is, by now? But let’s try a forgotten about her well-known boyfriend of the 60’s which I don’t … Continue reading Top Ten Tracks: Marianne Faithfull
OK, it’s back to back book posts yesterday and today, finally at almost the end of this month it’s my little write-up today which is simply a book about another great 80’s Aussie band which I’ve just finished but was published … Continue reading Great Reading: Grant & I: Inside and Outside The Go-Betweens By Robert Forster
OK, after saying I was going to blog about this book earlier this month, here’s my little bit about it now. It’s about the great 80’s Aussie band The Triffids and singer-songwriter David McComb. It’s book I recently read they … Continue reading Great Reading: Save What You Can: The Day of The Triffids by Bleddyn Butcher
To me, love for an entire album is an increasingly rare experience. It takes you back to a time, or a place, or most importantly, the people. You listen to the album over and over, so much so that when … Continue reading Love Letter To A Record: Du0 on No More Shall We Part by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
So it’s even more Aussie 80’s music for this Sunday and making it back to back this and last weekend! I just did finish reading Robert Forster’s wicked book about them called Grant & I which I should post a … Continue reading Top Ten Tracks: The Go-Betweens
Yesterday, on Aussie radio was the broadcast of a live on stage at Hobart Town Hall interview with Warren Ellis and here’s the link to 55 minute full length podcast. Off course, I’ve gotta blog something about it today because … Continue reading Double J’s Take 5: Warren Ellis’ songs in the key of Waz
At the very start of this month I’d blogged a live piano Cave doing T.Rex cover and he’s now start the U.K. leg of his Conversations tour. He’s bring out this rarely live played Grinderman track now. This one live … Continue reading Ratting With Terriers: Nick Cave (solo & live) doing Grinderman’s Palaces of Montezuma
Everything’s Fucked: Dirty Equation: Everything’s Fucked: That’s all three live clips that have popped up on YouTube as filmed live from this show on May sixth this year, one song twice from different seats which the first one has a … Continue reading Ratting With Terriers: Dirty Three @ Sydney Opera House/Vivid 2019
Paradise the brand new song by Tropical Fuck Storm was dropped sometime earlier this 24 hours. Also the word is out the new second TFS (Tropical Fuck Storm) album entitled Braindrops will be released August 23rd on Flightless Records in … Continue reading Shall Be Released: BRAINDROPS by Tropical Fuck Storm + Playlist: Gareth Liddiard’s Favorite Albums on Vinyl
OK, here’s an artist not yet covered in my kind-of art gallery blog posts and my two cents about it! For those non-Aussie readers of my little blog, you might know or not know? The well-known or some what famous … Continue reading Great Art: Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles of 1952
Right, I’ve gotta post a blog about this band because they’re such a killer live band! I wasn’t going to do any Monday morning blog posts anymore but it’s been a couple of days already now after the Saturday night … Continue reading Live Gigs: West Thebarton @ Rosie’s
Well, I did post on Friday David McComb singer-songwriter of The Triffids’ fave songs and albums. So it’s a no brainier, I’m picking my own fave of his song this Sunday. I don’t know if you know them or know … Continue reading Top Ten Tracks: The Triffids
Clyde McPhatter – A Lover’s Question (1958) Laura Nyro – Sweet Blindness (1968) Al Green – Beware (1973) Kraftwerk – Ohm Sweet Ohm (1975) Van Morrison – T.B. Sheets (1967) Dave McComb of The Triffids wrote out endless lists of stuff … Continue reading Playlist: The Triffids’ Dave McComb Favorite Songs & Albums
I’m not dead yet and haven’t post anything about this in a very longtime. Since the last time blogging about this book, the big news is my 2016 edition of this book/list is now officially old hat already because it … Continue reading 1001 Albums Book: 1967
The Planet Of Straw Men: Antimatter Animals: You Let My Tyres Down: Chameleon Paint: Two Afternoons: Soft Power: Rubber Bullies: New song or cover or something? It sounds like it should be an old Drones song but it’s not! The … Continue reading Ratting With Terriers: TFS 2019 Euro tour
So today art blog post is about the upbeat theme: hypodermic syringes! I don’t know? If you know Bacon artworks? He did quite a few so-called Lying Figure paintings which I with most likely get back to blog post about them sometime … Continue reading Great Art: Francis Bacon’s two paintings of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe of 60’s
Callahan has a brand new album coming out next week so seems like a good time to name my faves here on my blog. Some songs from the new one are already streaming but I’m not counting any of them … Continue reading Top Ten Tracks: Bill Callahan/Smog
So here’s Friday’s art blog gallery and just like earlier this week doing a second follow-up post on one of my fave artists already featured here on this blog but way back a few months so it’s forever ago. You … Continue reading Great Art: Martin Kippenberger’s paintings of 1983-4
Far away but better sound: Close-up: So that’s two solo live versions in Stockholm and Amsterdam just last month, he’s been playing the song written by Marc Bolan on his Europe tour. Ratting with terriers on YouTube when I should be doing … Continue reading Cover Versions: T. Rex’s Cosmic Dancer by Nick Cave (solo & live)
So that’s the band called Fucked Up who they have been doing a series of songs based on Zodiac years as 12″‘s over the last few years now, if you don’t know what that blog post title means? Fucked Up … Continue reading Playlist: Fucked Up’s Zodiac Series
OK, the first art blog post after my month off and before intro more new artists I’ve not blogged I’m going to do an artist I’ve blogged before but it seems like a very longtime ago now! Philip Guston is … Continue reading Great Art: Philip Guston’s 1976 paintings
So second post back after last month off blogging, here comes one all about HTRK! So more Aussies, the second or maybe third Aussie act of 2019 in my little TTT posts? In my mind they’re the best long running act … Continue reading Top Ten Tracks: HTRK
Off course, I’m back here after a month off blogging with now my part five of this year! At least my own diary of music listening, totally packet full blog post today! This time I’m not counting anything I’m planning … Continue reading What I’ve Been Listening to in May 2019
