one fellow's political coverage, music ramblings and general hijinks across decades under a range of guises at several locations often in a state of awe.
It didn’t take too long for Honeycomb to fill the space, unoccupied by people, with some excellent noise which would have fit in anywhere between the Sandringham in Sydney’s inner city to the Swanbourne here in Perth.
With three-piece popsters Superscope warming up the crowd I took a note of my surroundings – there were a hell of a lot of women here to see riot grrrls Babes in Toyland and they were all ready to mosh really hard.
This is interesting: colleague Roy Wadia on our Our Interactive World project from eons ago…
SYDNEY–Our house on ELECTION NIGHT 2004 is DON’S PARTY… or rather, Shauna, Adam and Stephen’s housewarming party. Ya bloody mongrel. Political opinions mandatory. Knowledge of the movie, eh, assumed. If not, click this. Get on the hustings and forward this link on. We BBQ the declared opposition during the evening. And if it’s close, we’ll … Continue reading “Mental Notes: October 2004”
SYDNEY–Tracklist of The Weekend Overhang – FBI 94.5FM Sunday 7-10am – follows. WABS–In Melbourne, staying in St Kilda Thurs May 13-Tue May 18. See Resume & Contacts for contact details, I’d love to catch-up with all the Melbs/Prrrth posse while there.
TAIPEI–Where did the winter go? It’s a sweet warm 27 degrees today in the clutches of winter, more like a Perth spring at the moment. Plus I’m busy plotting my return to HK, so it’s busy Adm time. Peso DJ playlist for the past two Fridays (that I was in the country!) follows. Want to … Continue reading “Mental Notes: December 2002”
TAIPEI–Back in the Peso saddle, playlist follows. Got the new Primal Scream. Hot. And the Nirvana single. Eerie. Lectured at Jing Wen Chi Shu (university) Saturday, and having a basic aversion to news lately because of US warmongering, missed that a sniper was strolling Anji’s neighborhood. Found out as I was deconstructing the information achitecture … Continue reading “Mental Notes: October 2002”
Peso playlist Friday October 4, 2002 Feeling very sick tonight. Bad cold again. But I do have the Nirvana single, downloaded from a Polish Nirvana fanclub website. Sweet. Sorry Kate Shannon, still breaking Universal Music embargos after all these years :P Gusgus – Cold Breath ’79 Primal Scream – Autobahn 66 (Evil Heat) Stereolab – … Continue reading “Mental Notes: October 2002”
Metropolis Fremantle With the demography of their audience swinging wildly between conservative listening-led folk canoodling their partners and dancefloor-bound style councillors hip to the remix craze sweeping the Anglo world, Everything But The Girl could hardly please everyone all of the time.
A compilation of reviews for a bigger coverage assembled from several writers. For several thousand music fans, ravers and simple masochists, the first belly laughs of this final Big Day Out were to be had before reaching the ground. Note the frantic screams of the woman station guard as hundreds of kids tried to pile … Continue reading “Big Day Out 1997, Bassendean Oval, February 2, 1997”
