OK, I haven’t done a cover song blog post in a little/long while and I can’t believe I’ve not done this before! But seems they’re well, two main members Fiona Kitschin and Gareth Liddiard now calling The Drones now defunct … Continue reading Cover Versions: All the Covers The Drones ever did
Salty foam, your daddy’s most Classic pin-up of the California coast I couldn’t trust your heavy stare The poly-cotton all circles and squares You didn’t drown in the water While the dollars fell like rain You looked in that blue … Continue reading Wicked Songs: Who’s My Eugene? by Tropical Fuck Storm
Jezebel: Dog Eared: I’m Here Now: Words From The Executioner To Alexander Pearce: I Don’t Ever Want To Change: Work For Me: I Looked Down The Line And I Wondered: Are You Leaving For The Country: Sixteen Straws: “I’m recording, … Continue reading M+N’s Article: Gala Mill by The Drones
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 giving the heads up yesterday on social media a brand new shiny song was coming today which meant I wanted it then so just all really proves the internet made me very impatient now! The song entitled The Planet … Continue reading Wicked Songs: The Planet Of Straw Men by Tropical Fuck Storm
Where the bloody hell is this gone? After the last post and while I’m at it! Why don’t they just release the full No Country For No Man live movie score/soundtrack sometime? They must have recordings of it, right? I’ve got … Continue reading TFS No Country For No Man original live film score
Edit (19/01/19): So after posting an old version of this a few days ago with a pile of video clips/songs missing but trying to get into my old youtube account to edit it, which that is just totally impossible! So … Continue reading Playlist: The Drones’ Rage Guest Programmers in 2009
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)
‘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
Are you able to remember all of the new lyrics live now? Yeah. It helps to have written them, you know. I’ve probably gone over them a million times. And they rhyme. I have no idea how actors remember all … Continue reading Interview: Gareth Liddiard for I See Seaweed by The Drones
Yet another brand new cool track by TFS already, bloody amazing output! The eighteenth edition in Famous Class’ LAMC split series featuring an unreleased A-side track from one of the label’s favorite band’s, backed with a B-side track from a … Continue reading Wicked Songs: The Happiest Guy Around by Tropical Fuck Storm
After about a couple of weeks of listening to this brand new album comes the Aussie tour and I’m so silly to got to both west coast dates, here’s what happen! But first a little about my little views of … Continue reading New Music: A Laughing Death In Meatspace by TFS + Live Gigs: TFS @ Badlands & Mojo’s
A Laughing Death in Meatspace track listing now with song time lengths: 1. You Let My Tyres Down – 5:30 2. Antimatter Animals – 5:14 3. Chameleon Paint – 4:30 4. The Future Of History – 4:25 5. Two Afternoons – 4:33 6. Soft Power … Continue reading Shall Be Released: A Laughing Death In Meatspace by TFS (Song Times) + Live Gigs: TFS @ PBS FM Studio’s in Melbourne
Side A: Rubber Bullies Side B: Stayin’ Alive It’s been out for a few days so I’m a little late but I’m still waiting for the 7″ color vinyl, why can’t they just email it? Off course a promo video for the … Continue reading Wicked Songs: Rubber Bullies by TFS + Cover Versions: Bee Gees’ Stayin’ Alive by TFS
1. You Let My Tires Down 2. Antimatter Animals 3. Chameleon Paint 4. The Future Of History 5. Two Afternoons 6. Soft Power 7. Shellfish Toxin 8. A Laughing Death In Meatspace 9. Rubber Bullies I’ve found track listing, right … Continue reading Shall Be Released: A Laughing Death In Meatspace by Tropical Fuck Storm (Track Listing)
So my obsession with this band continues with one whole blog post just about the album cover artwork! So that’s front and back cover below: If that’s not the most insane great album cover artwork, I don’t know what is? So … Continue reading Shall Be Released: A Laughing Death In Meatspace by Tropical F Storm (Cover Artwork)
Aussie’s Tropical Fuck Storm (TFS) – You Let My Tyres Down Brazil’s FingerFingerrr – Rollz Royce Indonesia’s The Trees & The Wild – Zaman, Zaman That don’t called it the Perth International Arts Fest (PIAF) for nothing! Last year my big highlight was a Melbourne … Continue reading Live Gigs: Tropical F*** Storm + FingerFingerrr + The Trees & The Wild @ PIAF Festival Gardens
Well, that didn’t take long! TFS new B-side cover was originally by Aussie 80’s greats the Divinyls released on the album Temperamental in 1988. Now in 2018 on yellow vinyl with Fiona Kitschin and Erica Dunn on main vox for TFS. … Continue reading Cover Versions: Divinyls’ Back To The Wall by Tropical Fuck Storm
New song with the video clip to You Let My Tyres Down, the number three song and the next in line of their 7″ singles set. Now with the debut album now announcement today, titled A Laughing Death In Meatspace coming … Continue reading Wicked Songs: You Let My Tyres Down by Tropical Fuck Storm + Shall Be Released: A Laughing Death In Meatspace by Tropical Fuck Storm
Oh My by The Drones written by Gareth Liddiard from the album Havilah (2008) and the lyrics are: People are a waste of food You’ll never hear the end They’re only ever happy When they’re burying their friends And they … Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday Theme: Natural Disasters
Side A: Side B: Right you cunts, cocks and assholes I’m back now with the most friendly and welcoming back greeting I can think of! Did you like it or could you have miss me at all? So what happen quickly … Continue reading Wicked Songs: Soft Power by Tropical Fuck Storm + Cover Versions: Lost Animal’s Lose The Baby by Tropical Fuck Storm
OK, double posting today because you can listen to this online and my 7″ single came in the snail mail. If you don’t know this song here it is on bandcamp, track number 14 or second last song but you … Continue reading Cover Versions: The Nation Blue’s Mansion Family by Tropical Fuck Storm
The Drones live @ The Triffid, Brisbane, 6th May 2016 Setlist: Private Execution, The Minotaur, Boredom, To Think That I Once Loved You, Then They Came For Me, I See Seaweed, Six Ways To Sunday, I Am The Supercargo. The Drones live @ … Continue reading Live Gigs: The Drones 2016 Live Recordings @ The Triffid, Brisbane & PBS Radio, Melbourne
Well, this is the big one I’ve been waiting for all year since hearing one of my fave singer-songwriter Gareth Liddiard was starting to do something new. Now it’s a totally brand new band to go with it but he’s … Continue reading Wicked Songs: Chameleon Paint by Tropical Fuck Storm
So somewhat following last Friday’s post here’s another one about this very new band called Tropical Fuck Storm which are yet to even release a song! But I do have music in this post and because I get a little … Continue reading Introducing: Tropical Fuck Storm
I guess this is a no brainier after yesterday’s post. I’ve wanted to for a while now to put all these together in the same post but haven’t for some reason. So with a couple of extras here it is … Continue reading Cover Versions: The Drones’ Shark Fin Blues by Ben Salter & Missy Higgins
So here’s a Friday arvo post, still trying to get back into this blogging thing but not been a total success. Anyway here’s a song and then the album too. This still got to be my fave Gizz song, even … Continue reading Wicked Songs: Garage Liddiard by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Edit (30/3/17) so I’ve been now corrected by The Drones twitter account, thanks guys. It’s his new band called National Cocktail Favourites but I do hope you’re letting NGV website person know too because that’s where I got it from. So … Continue reading Cover Versions: Jonathan Richman’s Vincent Van Gogh by Gareth Liddiard’s Cocktail Favourites
So Wednesday’s post has to be this, just uploaded today to YouTube is full gig recorded last year in HD at the Melbourne pub The Tote. The Drones leader Gareth Liddiard called this venue their spiritually home when these … Continue reading Great Watching: The Drones Live @ The Tote 2016
Well, both The Drones and Gareth Liddiard played shows at the Fremantle Festival this year. Yes, that’s pretty much the same artist but one gig he played solo and the other one with his long time band. I’ve never seen him perform both shows like these with only a day in-between, it’s always the band and/or solo shows/tours. It’s a pity they didn’t book three gigs with that side-project called MK-Ultra which is him on electric guitar with a drum machine and Dan and Steve on keyboards playing Drones songs but I don’t know if anyone else want to see that, … Continue reading Live Gigs: The Drones & Gareth Liddiard @ Fremantle Festival
“Shut up! We’re recording” Is the first thing you hear on this album just before the opening guitar chord starts. It’s the producer Aaron Cupples shouting at a dog barking but you can even hear crickets in the background too … Continue reading Classic Albums: Gala Mill by The Drones
The 100th post today! To celebrate I haven’t done a Playlist post since getting back into my blog thingy here over the last couple of weeks now. I’ve not done one on The Drones really too, they’re in two posts as kind-off footnotes … Continue reading Playlist: Best of The Drones Live from YouTube
So getting I’m back into my thingy here in the last few days. I’m trying to do at least one post under a few titles I had going before like: my New Music well, two of them and than Shall Be Released also … Continue reading Wicked Songs: Elevator Operator & Pedestrian At Best by Courtney Barnett
Well, The Drones were on the Aussie TV show called Rage last night and it was the best night watching the idiot box for a long time. If you you live oversea or never heard of this TV show, what … Continue reading Playlist: The Drones Rage Guest Programmers
Well, seems my last post here on my thingy was about a newish Rowland S. Howard cover I might pull a few others up here too. We have two These Immortal Souls tracks today, first by The Drones and then … Continue reading Cover Versions: Rowland S. Howard/These Immortal Souls’ Crowned by The Drones + Hyperspace by Gareth Liddiard
They did played this one too on the weekend, I forget to included in the setlist on that post. It was played pretty early on in the night too, like third track in or something. Well I’ve found this video … Continue reading Wicked Songs: The Minotaur by The Drones
