Archive for July, 2007
Thursday, July 12th, 2007
Suzanne Vega
FROM THE VAULT – SEPTEMBER 1996
Inescapably, the image that still hangs the most of Suzanne Vega is old, six or seven years. It’s got something to do with bohemianism or, more precisely, the romance of bohemianism. And a lot more to do with her loft in New York. It’s indefinably young and ineffably timeless.
Somehow, [...]
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Thursday, July 12th, 2007
Screaming Trees
FROM THE VAULT – 1996
Indianapolis, the roadshow has come to town; warm, dusty, petrol head heaven Indianapolis; butane, baby - fire up, spin the wheels and burn rubber. Home of the big race, the Indianapolis 500 - life and death on cambered turns so banked that one mistake and you’re a lightning smear to [...]
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Thursday, July 12th, 2007
Midnight Oil
FROM THE VAULT – NOVEMBER 1997
Midnight Oil had a peculiar tone. The music contained an unmistakable atmosphere of the suburban Australian life I was part of. Underneath the bland, safe surface, a jerky agitation, an itch I recognised. I too had known many restless summers and held fast to precious places, places without a postcard. [...]
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
The Frames
Great live moments come in all shapes and colours, but when the great Irish singer/songwriter Luka Bloom joined his countrymen, The Frames, onstage at the Metro Theatre in Sydney for a version of the Elvis Presley classic, Fools Rush In, it was five minutes of sheer heaven. The predominantly Irish crowd sang along in fine [...]