Tame Impala + Mini Mansions + Koi Child @ Riverstage, 21.11.2015
Three albums in and why Tame Impala are so well liked is still a mystery to me. I say that as someone who bought the first couple of albums to try to work out; it reminds me of when I bought the Wolfmother album to try to understand what that fuss was all about. I […]
Parklife 2013 @ Brisbane Botanic Gardens, 29.09.2012: Part 2
The Presets were Parklife’s main stage headliners, a somewhat risky proposition given that when the lineup was announced and the tickets went on sale, they had yet to release their third album. They get a reasonable crowd but The Riverstage is nowhere near as busy as it had been during the afternoon for the likes […]
Parklife 2012 @ The Botanic Gardens, 29.09.2012 – Quick Round Up
It’s been a quiet few months post-Rave. Truth be told, I have been away from Brisbane for a large proportion of the last two months, with work taking me down to Canberra and Sydney before a four week stint in Victoria. I did go to a few gigs while in Melbourne but one was Patrick […]
Splendour In The Grass 2010 – Day 2
To my surprise my alarm wakes me up on Day 2, meaning that (1) my make-shift tent didn’t fall over; and (2) it hasn’t rained during the night. After some more extensive tent repairs (involving snapping off the broken one inch piece of tent pole and putting the tent back together properly, albeit with one pole an […]
MGMT @ The Tivoli
One of the most obvious signs of the onset of old age in your average music fan appears to be the annual comparison of albums bought versus album included in the music media’s end of year polls. Whereas through your late-teens and throughout your twenties a ‘score’ of ten, twelve or maybe even a fifteen from a typical top […]
