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Friday, July 4th, 2008
Sigur Ros shine, again
Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
EMI
**** (4 stars)
It’s perhaps fitting that Sigur Ros appear naked on the album cover because this, the great Icelandic band’s fifth album, is largely its most stripped back and bare. That’s not to say those epic signature atmospheres are entirely absent. Festival builds magnificently over its 9 minutes-plus to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Alternative, Indie, Music, Review, Rock by Mike Gee
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Top 50 Australian Albums Of All Time - Really?
Australian rock’n’roll is 50 - and I am proud to have been part of it for well on 35 years now as a writer, broadcaster (on public radio and online), TV identity (minimal exposure, thankfully), occasional promoter, scriptwriter for the ARIA Awards, and more. And if sounds like I’m pushing my own barrow - there’s [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Music, Musings, News, Roots by Mike Gee
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Joan as Police Woman
Image via WikipediaJoan Wasser, aka Joan As Police Woman, is at home in her Brooklyn apartment. She says it’s a mild 21C outside and pleasant in the borough that claims to be “Home to Everyone From Everywhere!”. It’s then that it hits me: Joan sounds like Fran Drescher in The Nanny. Fran comes from Queens [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Alternative, Indie, Music by Mike Gee
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Regurgitator
It’s a long way to the top if you want to … and Regurgitator have. Now they don’t as much. In their halcyon days The Gurge as we fondly dubbed ‘em, sucked a lot of you know what, danced around in videos with animal suits on - Which Warner’s heavyweight executive was in one of [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Electronic, Music, Pop, Punk, Rock by Mike Gee
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Fame is a strange beast; it isn’t the same monster for everybody. For Rodrigo Sanchez, one half of the successful cult classical guitar duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela, fame is a challenge, particularly on a personal level. It’s principal ally, success, confronts most of what he calls home; its friend, money, means he has to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Music by Mike Gee
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Anti-Flag
Politics and music have long gone hand-in-hand. Unfortunately, political flagwavers have sometimes come and gone with the rapidity of their beliefs. Those who tried using politics as a rallying [read ‘selling’] point for an audience rather than offering a committed, solid belief, most rightly, didn’t last. But there are many more who have proved their [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Music, Punk by Mike Gee
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Air at the Sydney Opera House
Air, Live at the Sydney Opera House.
No Comments » - Posted in Music by Mike Gee
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Sara Storer
Sara Storer, former Golden Guitar-winning country superstar, now all-round singer/songwriter, makes big decisions. On her latest record, Silver Skies, she eschewed the bush balladry for a more popular, at times folkie, sound. Now she’s moving in on the inner-city gig circuit. And obviously isn’t afraid of a challenge.
The Victorian-born, richly talented Storer, who now lives [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Music by Mike Gee
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Roisin Murphy
Roisin Murphy is a character. Poised to appear in Australia at the V Festival, she’s been tipped off that the Reid brothers, Jim and William, better known as the songwriting partnership that drives feedback and sustain dark rock merchants, The Jesus And Mary Chain, are on the bill. This titillates her no end. “I don’t [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Electronic, Music by Mike Gee
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Sigur Ros first film - heima
‘heima’ is icelandic for ‘at home’ or ‘homeland’ and this film follows the band as they embarked on a series of free concerts in Iceland.