The Brag

ARTS VS SCIENCE, TIM & JEAN, JINJA SAFARI
Metro Theatre
Saturday August 21
Jinja Safari win the hearts of the swelling crowd instantly, with a high-energy set boasting frenetic bongos and the boys ricocheting across the stage like beach balls. Their enthusiasm is contagious, and there are crowd clap-alongs before we even reach 9pm. A pretty cracking start [...]

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Posted: September 6th, 2010 under Brag 377 (August 30), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Art vs Science, Jinja Safari, Jordan Smith, The Brag, Tim & Jean

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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) new songs. When [...]

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Posted: September 6th, 2010 under Brag 377 (August 30), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Andy McLean, Basement Birds, The Brag

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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 – ed.]. [...]

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Posted: September 6th, 2010 under Brag 377 (August 30), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Caitlin Welsh, Eels, Laura Imbruglia, The Brag

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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 version of the [...]

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Posted: September 6th, 2010 under Brag 377 (August 30), Interviews, Music, Uncategorized.
Tags: Alex Young, Martina Topley Bird, The Brag

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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 same thing. That’s [...]

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Posted: September 6th, 2010 under Brag 377 (August 30), Interviews, Music.
Tags: Concrete Blonde, Mike Gee, The Brag

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