Archive for 'Brag 377 (August 30)'
Live Review: Basement Birds @ Metro Theatre, Friday August 20
BASEMENT BIRDS Metro Theatre Friday August 20 Ah, music fans. They’re a fickle bunch. While a decent-sized crowd welcomes support act Ohad Rein (aka Old Man River) onto the stage, their attention fluctuates. While they are willing to clap along to the hits from Rein’s first record, they are easily distracted during his (very promising) [...]
Posted: September 6th, 2010 under Brag 377 (August 30), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Andy McLean, Basement Birds, The Brag
Live Review: Eels, Laura Imbruglia @ Enmore Theatre, Saturday August 14
EELS, LAURA IMBRUGLIA Enmore Theatre Saturday August 14 I tried to get to the Enmore earlier than I did, because the first act on the bill tonight was listed as “Ventriloquist”. I can only assume it was not an actual ventriloquist, but I cling to the possibility that it may have been [it totally was [...]
Posted: September 6th, 2010 under Brag 377 (August 30), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Caitlin Welsh, Eels, Laura Imbruglia, The Brag
Interview: Martina Topley Bird
Martina Topley Bird Stripped Back By Alex Young If you were lucky enough to catch Massive Attack at the Opera House Forecourt earlier this year, you would have witnessed a young British woman in fluorescent pink heels stun the audience with a magical opening slot – before performing with the trip-hop pioneers in a spine-tingling [...]
Posted: September 6th, 2010 under Brag 377 (August 30), Interviews, Music, Uncategorized.
Tags: Alex Young, Martina Topley Bird, The Brag
Interview: Concrete Blonde
Concrete Blonde Still Bloodletting Mike Gee Nearly two decades ago, Concrete Blonde frontwoman Johnette Napolitano and I spoke for nearly 90 minutes about her alien abduction experience. It was a story that eventually ran worldwide – and when we revisited the topic in 2002, she told me, “Eight million people can’t be making up the [...]
Posted: September 6th, 2010 under Brag 377 (August 30), Interviews, Music.
Tags: Concrete Blonde, Mike Gee, The Brag
Interview: Underworld
Underworld Toughest Of The Infants Chris Honnery Art is about looking at the same things with different eyes,” Underworld frontman Karl Hyde affirms in an affable, measured tone as we gaze out over Sydney Harbour from his room at the Four Seasons. “You’ve only got one pair of eyes, but your perception has to keep [...]
Posted: September 6th, 2010 under Brag 377 (August 30), Interviews, Music, New.
Tags: Chris Honnery, The Brag, Underworld