The Brag

There was a man flashing his bare arse from the stage of a lesbian hot-spot. There were pterodactyls circling the grand upper echelons of the Enmore Theatre. And there was the surprise act, billed as Kids In Dust, reforming for the first time in several millennia. It was Dig It Up!, and it was the [...]

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Posted: May 6th, 2012 under Brag 460 (April 30), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Belles Will Ring, Benjamin Cooper, Died Pretty, Dig It Up! The Hoodoo Gurus Invitational, Enmore Theatre, Gooch Palms, Notes Newtown, Redd Kross, Royal Headache, Sly Fox Hotel, The Brag, The Green Room, The Sonics, The Sunnyboys

Over the last two-and-a-half decades, Mark Lanegan has worked in a variety of formats that showcase his plethora of skills – from the grunge of Seattle’s Screaming Trees through his time in Josh Homme’s rocking Queens Of The Stone Age and more recently, three collaborative albums with former Belle And Sebastian singer Isobel Campbell. Tonight [...]

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Posted: May 6th, 2012 under Brag 460 (April 30), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Benjamin Cooper, Blues Funeral, Mark Lanegan, The Brag, The Hi-Fi

Jesus, every time I venture to The Standard, it’s full of the most gorgeous people I’ve ever seen. In a faded NBA t-shirt and old jeans, I always feel the need to retreat to some shadowy corner and hide my fashion mediocrity from groups of bohemian girls and bearded, tattooed dudes. Tonight, as WA’s Pond [...]

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Posted: May 6th, 2012 under Brag 460 (April 30), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Pond, Rick Warner, The Brag, The Gooch, The Laurels, The Standard

Under Lanie Lane’s eye, the Hordern tonight becomes the scene of a Hollywood Western shootout, the femme fatale and her audience duelling at ten paces. Lane fires out a series of clever mid-tempo blues numbers, the punters fire back blank stares. Backed by a three-piece band and their beautiful vintage instruments, Lane’s shots are the [...]

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Posted: May 6th, 2012 under Brag 460 (April 30), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Chris Martin, Cold Chisel, Hordern Pavilion, Lanie Lane, The Brag

Cabins use their opening slot as an opportunity to test out some new songs ahead of the release of their second album. The newer material seems to have moved away from Bright Victory’s territory and into a harder sound more their own making – rather than just the sum of their record collections. The band’s [...]

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Posted: April 29th, 2012 under Brag 459 (April 23), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Cabins, Michael Hartt, The Brag, The Treatment, Tumbleweed