Archive for 'Music'
[MUSIC: Interview] Yacht Club DJs
Yacht Club DJs
Those Party Guys
By Rick Warner
“Yeah, I am the whitest, nerdiest man alive,” laughs Gareth Harrison aka Gaz, one half of the Yacht Club DJs. “I’m trying to cover it all up with tattoos but I’m failing.” He’s telling me how his studio work ethic is affecting his tan, not to mention his health. [...]
Posted: January 10th, 2012 under Brag 443 (December 19), Interviews, Music.
Tags: Rick Warner, The Brag, Yacht Club DJs
[MUSIC: Interview] Bob Log III
Bob Log III
Black Cherry’s New Year’s Eve
By Benjamin Cooper
Black Cherry has always been an infamously rocking fixture in Sydney – two years of working behind the bar assured this writer that the night amounts to a master-class in partying. Jumping venues throughout the inner-west to its present home at Marrickville’s Factory Theatre seems to have [...]
Posted: January 10th, 2012 under Brag 443 (December 19), Interviews, Music.
Tags: Benjamin Cooper, Black Cherry NYE, Bob Log III, The Brag
[MUSIC: Interview] Hanggai
Hanggai
Mongolian Punks
By Benjamin Cooper
There’s a touch of the mystical in the mountains and plains of Mongolia, and awestruck Westerners are not the only ones to be enraptured. Ilchi, frontman of Beijing-based group Hanggai, is also taken with the power of the country – especially its music. “When I first saw it, it was very strong [...]
Posted: January 10th, 2012 under Brag 443 (December 19), Interviews, Music.
Tags: Benjamin Cooper, Hanggai, Peats Ridge Festival 2011, The Brag
[MUSIC: Interview] The Kooks
The Kooks
Everyone’s A Critic
By Bridie Connellan
“On a turbulent aeroplane, we got struck by lighting and it was shaking in the storm. I had my last song lined up since I thought we were going to die. It was ‘Wuthering Heights’.” A few months ago, Hugh Harris had an Almost Famous moment – “But instead of [...]
Posted: January 10th, 2012 under Brag 443 (December 19), Interviews, Music.
Tags: Bridie Connellan, Falls Festival, The Brag, The Kooks
[THEATRE: Interview] L’Effet De Serge
L’Effet De Serge
By Roslyn Helper
What can you achieve in one minute on stage? This is the question theatre-makers Phillippe Quesne and Gaëtan Vourc’h, from the experimental Viviarium Studio in Paris, asked themselves when devising L’Effet de Serge (‘The Serge Effect’), about a man who puts on short lo-fi living-room shows for his friends and neighbours. [...]
Posted: January 10th, 2012 under Arts, Brag 443 (December 19), Festivals, Interviews-arts.
Tags: L'Effet De Serge, Roslyn Helper, Sydney Festival 2012, The Brag