The Brag

on White, the cigar-smoking, scotch-drinking Texan with a rough voice and a rougher sense of humour, has worked his way to the top of the comedy food chain, a long way away from where he started 26 years ago. “At one point I was doing a lot of work for one chain of comedy clubs, and they realised I didn’t have anywhere else to work, so they decided to cut my pay by a third and take away my airfare,” he recalls. “So basically I told them to go eat a steaming bowl of fuck.”
White promptly moved to Mexico with his then-girlfriend, and opened a pottery mosaic factory. “But then this thing called the Blue Collar Comedy Tour happened, which is what made me really popular, and they couldn’t tolerate me living in Mexico. So they said, ‘You have to move back to the US if you want to do this.’”

Posted: June 5th, 2012 under Arts, Arts - Interview, Arts Feature, Brag 465 (June 4), Live Comedy Reviews.
Tags: Arts, Arts Feature, Brag, Comedy, interview, Live Review, Metro Theatre, Moral Compass Tour, Ron White, Roslyn Helper

MuteMath The Hi-Fi Wednesday May 16 MuteMath are one of the most crucially underappreciated American indie bands of the last decade. The New Orleans quartet have released album after album of forward-thinking, genre-hopping rock since they formed in 2003, but it’s taken this long to get them down to Australia. Judging by the hysterical reaction [...]

Posted: June 1st, 2012 under Brag 464 (May 28), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Indie, Jonno Seidler, LIVE, Live Review, Music, Mutemath, The Hi-Fi

Shaking my head. That’s how I spent the majority of Kimbra Johnson’s headlining show at the Enmore Theatre. Sure there was a fair bit of jiving, a good helping of grooving and a smidgen of fist-pumping but mostly, in the miniscule periods of downtime between songs, I found myself shaking my head in disbelief. At 22 years old and with only a single LP to her name, Kimbra is not the live artist you’d expect. Having contributed to Miami Horror’s sensational ‘Illumination’, Gotye’d her way into the US late-night television circuit, and answered a call-up from Converse to collaborate with A-Trak and Mark Foster for ‘Warrior’, you’d think she’d be a good live prospect. But nowhere near this good.

Posted: May 30th, 2012 under Brag 464 (May 28), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Brag, Daniel Merriweather, David Seidler, Kimbra, LIVE, Live Review, Music, The Enmore Theatre

“Sydney, how long has it been?” were his first words as he rose slowly through the floor of the enormous love-symbol stage, dressed in a shiny gold-tasselled jacket. Later, as he entered the second hour of a three-hour set – now in a purple jumpsuit – he asked, “What you doing tomorrow? Can you stay here all night?” Goddamn it, we all wanted to.

Posted: May 23rd, 2012 under Brag 463 (May 21), Live Reviews, Music.
Tags: Allphones Arena, Laurence Rosier Staines, Live Review, Music, Prince