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Pixies – Brisbane – 31 July 2010

By |August 6th, 2010|Categories: Live Reviews|Tags: , , , , , |

A few nights before this Pixies warm up concert for Splendour in the Grass, I had a vivid dream. In it I was the tour manager or press officer for the band and they were being put up in a luxury hotel with a huge swimming pool which they were swanning around in and (in)famously not getting along and refusing to do the show. It ended with me giving them a “look all the great rock’n’roll bands are dysfunctional, but when you’re on stage for that hour and a half you come together, that's when you work, that's when you function!” speech. And then I drove them to the Zoo in a black hummer.

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The Faint – Australian Interview with Jacob Thiele about Faciinatiion (Static, 2008)

By |October 3rd, 2008|Categories: Interviews|Tags: , , , , |

It may come as some surprise that for a band who always seem to be on the cutting edge The Faint have actually been in existence for over a decade, combining punk attitude and guitars

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Atlas Sound – Sydney – 19 June 2009

By |June 19th, 2009|Categories: Live Reviews|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

I'd be surprised if the majority in attendance were familiar at all with Atlas Sound, but the crammed in masses of which Webcuts was one of the last to make the cut, were calling out requests that even Cox felt too obscure and unplayable.

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Robert Lurie – No Certainty Attached – Steve Kilbey and The Church

By |May 27th, 2009|Categories: Book Reviews, Reviews|Tags: , , , , |

Slighty less than groundbreaking, but no less worthy, biography of Australian poet, musician and icon, Steve Kilbey of The Church.

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