Archive for 'Live Reviews'
[MUSIC: Live Review] Harvest Festival @ Parramatta Park, Sunday November 13
After the non-start that was Soundwave Revolution, the promoter’s inaugural Harvest Festival needed to be rather spectacular. And they had a good head start: the people who were put out by the Revolution non-event were more than sated by the mammoth lineup for the 2012 Soundwave (who would have guessed that Slipknot would ever be [...]
Posted: November 28th, 2011 under Brag 439 (November 21), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Bright Eyes, Harvest Festival, Mercury Rev, Nathan Jolly, Portishead, The Brag, The Flaming Lips, The National, TV On The Radio
[MUSIC: Live Review]Rat VS Possum, FLRL, Fishing @ FBi Social, Friday November 11
It’s a real shame that the ground floor merry-goers in the Kings Cross Hotel, who sat watching a guy do acoustic Nirvana covers for hours on end, couldn’t have been replicated numerically two floors up at FBi Social, where a number of truly innovative artists were playing that night.
Sample connoisseurs Fishing (two thirds of Sydney’s [...]
Posted: November 28th, 2011 under Brag 439 (November 21), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: FBi Social, Fishing, FLRL, Matthew O'Neill, Rat Vs Possum, The Brag
[MUSIC: Live Review] Passenger, Stu Larsen @ The Gaelic Theatre, Friday November 11
Mike Rosenberg has the most polite fans on the entire planet, and it’s credit to his wide-open heart that he managed to sell-out the Gaelic almost entirely by word of mouth. You’d have to see Passenger live to understand it – which isn’t too hard, as he busks most days he’s on tour.
Opening with the [...]
Posted: November 28th, 2011 under Brag 439 (November 21), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Passenger, Robbie Miles, Stu Larsen, The Gaelic Theatre
[MUSIC: Live Review] Gold Fields, Millions @ Oxford Art Factory, Friday November 11
The unassuming Millions shuffled onstage to a healthy crowd, lead singer sporting a brown sloppy joe and buzz cut, and the guitarist wearing a Wu-Tang tee. Their brand of surf-tinged garage-pop is intelligently simple (if that is even a thing), and they made the whole crowd wish they were smoking some jays somewhere near Nimbin. [...]
Posted: November 28th, 2011 under Brag 439 (November 21), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Gold Fields, Millions, Oxford Art Factory, Rach Seneviratne, The Brag
[MUSIC: Live Review] Bright Eyes @ The Enmore Theatre, Monday November 14
There was a certain injustice to seeing Bright Eyes by sunlight at Harvest the day prior to their official sideshow. But in the dimly-lit confines of the Enmore Theatre, the band find their ideal landscape, the intimate setting affording them the space and attention required for their sparser side. With frontman Conor Oberst expressing his [...]
Posted: November 28th, 2011 under Brag 439 (November 21), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Bright Eyes, Enmore Theatre, Max Easton, The Brag