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You Am I – Convicts

Tim Rogers and You Am I have been plying their trades for decades now, racking up some serious mileage and a few bloody great records along the way. Rogers is one of Australia’s hidden songwriting talents and it is perhaps his band’s straight ahead balls Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:15 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: CD, Reviews, Oz Bands, Rolling Stones, You Am I, The Who, AC/DC

I see you, up their starting fires or how I fell in love with The Go-Betweens

To say The Go-Betweens have taken over my life at the moment would be a huge understatement. Quite like Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Tom Waits; my life can be easily divided into halves. My life before the Go-Betweens and my life after. Ultimately when it Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 5:38 PM by Lloyd | 3 Comments

Filed under: CD, Reviews, Talking Heads, Bob Dylan, Oz Bands, Velvet Underground, dvd, The Go Betweens

The Blues Explosion

Isolation.TV traces a blues/garage rock trajectory that begins with the Doors and The Stooges in the mid sixties and arrives at the current crop of garage rock stars that includes Australia’s Rocket Science and Holland’s zZz. So I picked up a second hand Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2007 6:21 PM by Lloyd | 4 Comments

Filed under: Rocket Science, Oz Bands, Feature, Nick Cave, Iggy Pop, Junior Kimbrough, Blues Explosion, zZz, RL Burnside

You Am I – The Cream & The Crock

I spent a good few years living in Australia and the first Ozzie band that I was introduced too, while living there, was You Am I. My mate Jon was an avid fan and so he excitedly introduced me to their back catalogue, while I introduced him to the Springbok Read More...

Posted Thursday, June 14, 2007 5:45 PM by Lloyd | 2 Comments

Filed under: Reviews, Sonic Youth, Oz Bands, You Am I, Smokin Popes

The Smoking Popes - At Metro

The first time I came across the Smoking Popes was a few years ago. A friend played an acoustic bonus disc that had come with the new album by Australian rockers You Am I, titled The Temperance Union. The two bands had hooked up for a tour some time back Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:39 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: CD, Reviews, Oz Bands, You Am I, dvd

Sunrise over the sea - The John Butler Trio

What if I was a dreadlocked earth warrior? What if I was really into blues roots music about saving the planet, kind of like the Woody Guthrie for the Greenpeace generation? What if I was born in a forest and hang dream catchers in my room? What if my Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 12:06 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: CD, Reviews, Oz Bands

Fiercely independent: Interview with Josh Cunningham from the Waifs

Josh Cunningham, the guitarist from the Australian folk/blues band The Waifs, was recently in South Africa. I caught up with him to chat about the band's future plans Tell us how The Waifs formed back in 1992? Initially the two sisters Vikki and Donna Read More...

Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 5:38 PM by Lloyd | 1 Comments

Filed under: Interview, The Waifs, Oz Bands

Fame is a strange reality: Missy Higgins Interview

Australian jazz and pop sensation Missy Higgins is on tour in South Africa. I caught up with her to chat about her meteoric rise to fame How did you get started in the music industry? I won this radio-station competition when I was 17. My sister sent Read More...

Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 5:19 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Interview, Oz Bands

The Australian Invasion

I went to see Missy Higgins last weekend in Jozi, although I was not expecting much (she's not exactly my type of music), I was truly surprised. This girl has an incredible voice and really knows how to write a hook-laden song. She played with Josh the Read More...

Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 4:26 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: The Waifs, Live, Oz Bands