Big Day Out 2014 @ Metricon Stadium, 19.01.2014: Part 2
After The Drones have mostly emptied the Red Stage tent, Grouplove pack it out to capacity. Within half a song it’s clear that the band’s main influence has to be the Eurovision Song Contest. There’s no way a band could come up with a song like their opening song, the sort of thing you’d tune […]
Mudhoney + feedtime + Gravel Samwidge @ The Zoo, 18-01-2014
Once again it’s very slim pickings for music festival sideshows in Brisbane in 2014. I think the Mudhoney show at The Zoo, the night before the festival starts its Australian dates at its new Gold Coast location, might be the only Big Day Out sideshow in town this year. Knowing that there’s a long day […]
Big Day Out 2014 @ Metricon Stadium, 19.01.2014: On Film
I normally like to keep things roughly chronological on This Is Not A Photo Opportunity, even though it usually means a massive backlog around festival time when there just isn’t the time to keep up to date. I’m going to break with convention to put up a few posts from this year’s festival season with […]
Mudhoney + Precious Jules @ The Zoo, 05.12.2011
Back in the day I never got into Mudhoney. I don’t know why but they never really did anything for me. I had friends and housemates that loved them, so got to hear bits and pieces from their earlier albums but the songs just never grabbed me. I’d seen the band a few times down […]