THE DEVASTATIONS The Night I Couldn’t Stop Crying < An eclectic Australian band with a lead singer who sounds and looks so much like a young Nick Cave. I think they ended up running away to Berlin, but they were such a great live band when I saw them back in around 2005 or so. Their album ‘Coal’ is absolutely stunning.
GENTLE BEN AND HIS SENSITIVE SIDE Beginning of the End < Very cool and dapper Brisbane band from Australia. Ben Corbett is also one of the frontmen of SixFtHick. I love his style. He’s a very talented frontman.
DAVE McCORMACK AND THE POLAROIDS featuring BEN CORBETT (from SixFtHick, and Gentle Ben and His Sensitive Side) cover ‘I’m Bored’. Not only is Ben Corbett possibly the best frontman I’ve ever seen in any band ever, this video is a perfect example of why I think that’s so. He gives 110% no matter what he’s doing, even if he’s singing a cover in someone else’s band. Also potentially shows the less glamorous side of Australian pub gigs ;)
INSURGE Speculator (Twitter - lead singer @chrisdubrow)
PRIMARY Vicious Precious | Copyright Warner Music Australia 1998. Yes, that’s Sneaky Sound System’s Connie Mitchell, when she was cool.
MANTISSA Mary Mary | Mantissa live at the Melbourne Big Day Out 1993. Recorded by Triple J Network, engineered & mixed by Paul McKercher.
KILLING TIME Dream On | 1992 single charting at #23 in Australia. Killing Time later changed their name to Mantissa. This was one of my favourite songs on Triple J that year. Yes, Triple J USED to play good music.
watching | charge group : run. first single from the sydney band’s LP ‘Charge Group’ to be released early 2012.
watching | blonde on blonde : are you entertained. new music video from local brisbane lovelies. love the twist at the end!
watching | the boys next door : shivers
watching | the lime spiders : slave girl. for you kids, this was the type of sound that earned the genre term “swampy” back when I was…well…a swampy in the ’80s :P
watching | the novocaines : adhere to (@thenovocaines)
watching | the clouds : bower of bliss. saw this band perform tonight for the first time since the early / mid ’90s, and they are still incredible. was i the only person who paid just to see the clouds and left before the wonder stuff and jesus jones performed? probably not. these clouds girls inspire devotion. talent’s funny like that.
