journal of LIVE stuff

( Gigs I've attended in 2009(A.D.) )

( Gigs. 2007AD. )

( Gigs. 2004AD-2005AD )

Fri. 6th of November 2009.
Band competition at The Factory.

Mikey J Woodbridge and band.
http://www.mjwoodbridge.com

Some other performers.

Mishu?

Sat. 17th of October, 2009.
The Annandale Hotel, Annandale.

Many bands played before I arrived at the venue, sorry people.


PIRATE were excellent

SLEEPMAKESWAVES were wonderful

QUIET CHILD were wicked

SHANGHAI were sheer BRILLIANCE!

overall, a great night and awesome gig.

Fri. 12th of September 2009.
The Roundhouse, Sydney. http://www.unswroundhouse.com/

Ouroboros http://www.myspace.com/OUROBOROSMETAL
Only caught the last song or two... good heavy stuff.

Black Asylum http://www.black-asylum.com/
described by a friend as "Baby Triviums". Couldn't tell the comparison myself.

CANNIBAL CORPSE http://www.cannibalcorpse.net/
are great live! With a rhythm section that will shake your spine and spleen, guitars that will shred you to pieces and vocals that will decimate your throat and ears. This American band is there to DESTROY YOU! In a good way of course! A good mixture of songs from throughout their career (from their first album released in 1990 to their current release, Evisceration Plague) and classic songs such as "Butchered at Birth" and of course, "Hammer Smashed Face". Although all songs sounded as though they could have been from the same album, at least this band (only the drummer and bass player are original members) has had a continuity of style if not line-up. The current singer (who has been with the band for about 14 years now) can "windmill" his hair better than anyone - ever! And had plenty of witty remarks and introductions to songs. For example, commenting on the moshpit after the second or third time and something akin to... well, to those in the pit, you better go for it even more because this song has pit in the title... "PIT OF ZOMBIES!!!"
Definitely a band worth checking out!

Supported by ELECTRIC MARY http://www.electricmary.com/

ALICE COOPER http://www.alicecooper.com/
THEATRE OF DEATH http://www.alicecooper.com/blogs/fromtheinside/archive/2009/08/12/331.aspx

Mon. 24th of August 2009
The Sydney Entertainment Centre
http://www.sydentcent.com.au/

http://www.sydentcent.com.au/index.cfm?s=content&p=event_detail&event_id=102125

...it was AWESOME!!!

FeatherFest. presented by Birds Robe Collective
Sun. 04th January 2009.
The ANNANDALE Hotel, Annandale.

BRIAN CAMPEAU (acoustic)

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SHANGHAI
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SuperFlorence Jam
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CAPTAINS

moshcam!

16th of January, 2009.
Beck's Festival Bar set up in Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney.
Part of the Sydney Festival


THROWING MUSES

http://www.moshcam.com/web/#?page=player&type=gig&id=458

5th March, 2009.
The Enmore Theatre, Enmore.

PIVOT

http://www.moshcam.com/web/#?page=player&type=gig&id=515

http://pivotpivot.net

http://www.myspace.com/pivotpivot



GARY NUMAN

http://www.moshcam.com/web/#?page=player&type=gig&id=500

http://www.numan.co.uk

Fri. 05th June, 2009.
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE Concert Hall


KRONOS QUARTET
http://www.kronosquartet.org/

PROGRAM

J. G. Thirlwell / Nomatophobis * Australian premiere

Unknown (arr. Kronos, transc. Ljova) / Oh Mother, the Handsome Man Tortures Me +

Traditional (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Lullaby + Australian premiere

Ramallah Underground (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Tashweesh * Australian premiere

Hurdy-Gurdy (Stefan Brisland-Ferner & Totte Mattsson) / Scatter * Australian premiere

Aleksandra Vrebalov / …hold me, neighbor, in this storm… * Australian premiere

INTERVAL

Hanna Kulenty / String Quartet No. 4 (A Cradle Song) * Australian premiere

Jon Rose / Music from 4 Fences * World premiere

[Plus an encore performance of a piece written by Sigur Rós.]

Duration
1st half: 55 minutes
Interval: 20 minutes
2nd half: 30 minute



http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:ds51B8T-Pk8J:www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/kronosquartet.aspx+kronos+quartet+program+thirwell+Sydney+Opera+House&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au

http://www.last.fm/event/983930
http://www.ilike.com/concerts/venues/Sydney-Opera-House/Kronos+Quartet/10284249

Satur. 30th May, 2009.
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE Opera Theatre


Support by: Palace of Fire

BATTLES
John Stanier is an impressive drumming and reconfirmed himself as one of my favourites. Great to see a drum kit at the fore on stage.
http://www.bttls.com/

http://luminous.sydneyoperahouse.com/Battles.aspx

http://soh.viotv.com/?mediaId=1312b860-d878-4de7-a8da-d0cee98a0193

Wednes. 03rd Jun. 2009
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE Opera Theatre


As part of the Luminous Festival curated by Brian Eno.
http://luminous.sydneyoperahouse.com/Ladytron.aspx

Support by: PIVOT
http://www.pivotpivot.net/

LADYTRON
http://ladytron.com/

( In reply to Aeryxz )
http://aeryxz.com/archives/2009/06/04/ladytron-a-cathedral-versus-love-versus-shame/#respond

http://soh.viotv.com/?mediaId=1312b860-d878-4de7-a8da-d0cee98a0193

After 10pm Satur. 06th of March 2009...

Switchblade Sister Anti-Social Club

featuring

THE MEDICATED LIVE!

preceded and followed by DJ sets by Mzzy, etc.

$10 to get in with the lovely Brad (bass player from Mz Ann Thropik) as door bitch!

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e137/doom_deluxe/MYSPACE%20GRAPHICS/topbanner-club77060309.jpg

http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/37/l_c6c5fb1c4292458a8fcb7a9b990b8a28.jpg

http://www.myspace.com/themedicated

I didn't stay for Bistu/Bitsu though...I would have liked to seen how they play.

29 NOVEMBER 2008

06th of the 09th, 2008.
Big Top, Luna Park. Milson's Point. [Sydney].

Virgin Black were perhaps melodic black metal. They seemed to have quite a bit of backing track, something which the head-liner later referred to (Mikael Åkerfeldt said "Well, at least you know everything we do is live" when his guitar stuffed up and they had to fill time while it was fixed in the middle of a song.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Black

Opeth
"The Lotus Eater" was a big highlight. Also, out of the few songs from Blackwater Park (considering how long their songs are and how many albums they have, they fact that they did more than one is generous), during "The Drapery Falls" there was a big stuff up with Mikael Åkerfeldt's guitar and the drummer, Martin "Axe" Axenrot, "covered (his) arse" by doing an impressive solo, followed by Arch Enemy (etc.) guitarist, Fredrik Åkesson.
There was at least one song from Morningrise and My Arms, Your Hearse, though I admit at this point I have neither album (though I have most Opeth albums).
Encore included another song from Blackwater Park.
http://www.opeth.com/

By the way, I was in the front row on the barrier... left in front of the stage... I can remember there were photographers in the first few songs of each band. Apparently one of them was Damien Radford and here's his album on the triple j website:
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/gallery/opeth_080906/

mon. 29th of the 09th, 2008.
METRO THEATRE. Sydney.
http://www.metrotheatre.com.au/

FAMILJEN from Sweden. And that's the best thing about this duo. They're from Sweden AND the lyrics (plus song titles, EVERYTHING) are in Swedish. Out of the loads and frigging loads of all manner of artists to be exported out of that Scandanavian country, I cannot think of but one other artist that puts the majority of lyrics in Swedish. It's ALL friggin' in English, with the occasional word here and there if you're lucky. Anyways...
The music is good too, but visually, this was the most piss-weak soft and boring "live" act I've seen all year. Two dudes. One singer, who's pathetic dancing was cringe-worthy at best and one dude behind all the electronics, who moved around very little if at all. But like I said, they sounded good (well, the actual mix could have been better) even if the singer seemed to be a giant castrato. I'd been told that Swedish men these days had gone completely soft and I didn't believe it until I came across these guys, because most Swedes I know of are in metal and punk bands. Anyways, I'm whinging again...
http://www.detsnurrariminskalle.com/

In between sets was some DJ that I am not familiar with and he wasn't on stage anyhow.

LADYTRON walked out silhouetted onto an unlit stage, save for the blinding lights shooting out from behind them. Gave a real '60s/'70s science-fiction movie look and feel. Scottish singer, Helen Marnie, completely depicting herself as a 1960s Witch and perhaps she was one in her previous life. They started out with a couple of songs (actually, I think "Black Cat" lead straight in from "Mu-tron" as an intro, but I am unsure. But when the bass beats came in for "Black Cat", they shook right through my body and that's definitely a good thing and the crowd roared. Wouldn't be so good if you had a pace-maker, but if you had one of them you probably wouldn't go to many concerts) from the new album, Velocifero, but every album had a good input. I especially liked "discotraxx". And EVERY Ladytron song with Bulgarian lyrics was brought out, giving Miro Aroyo a good work out, not that any member of the band went into anything remotely resembling a frenzy of energy.
Encore of three songs, including "Destroy Everything You Touch" as the final song, which was to be predicted since they hadn't already played it and it's one of their biggest singles.
http://www.ladytron.com/

Here's some photos:
http://www.inthemix.com.au/photos23/080929-ladytron

WEDNES. 02ND OF THE 10TH, 2008.
THE OXFORD ART FACTORY, DARLINGHURST. SYDNEY.

THE E.L.F. is the goblin-like hunchback from Gerling. I now see why he used to wear a backpack. Quite entertaining for a dude in flanno with a laptop and a mic, drinking beer. A bit creepy though when he squeezed at the air, looking at the audience.

GRAFTON PRIMARY strike me as the Pseudo Echo of 2008... or 1988, considering they're quite retro... though to be fair, they do have some elements that you wouldn't find back then. Good band actually. I'd just heard about them, so it was good to see and hear what they're actually like.

DOES iT OFFEND YOU, YEAH? are a brilliant band from the U.K. who have some great electro-rave tracks, some cool indie-electro tracks and a few adequate pop songs. Very enthusiastic was one of the dudes, the others being a bit more chilled out. Would prefer to be told something other than "LEt me Hear you make some NOISE, SYDNEY!!" though.
Electro celebrity, Har Mar Superstar, came out of nowhere (seemingly) towards the end and crowd-surfed of the stage.
An encore was well in demand, so the band came out again and did a true to the original cover of "Whip It!" by DEVO, even though they made the crowd sing a large part of it.
http://www.doesitoffendyou.com

My first time to the Oxford Art Factory as a venue (it used to be a record store, under a different name). Sound seemed alright, considering it basically is a concrete box. Like Spectrum and the Gaelic, there are some annoying pillars that can block sight of the stage depending on where one is viewing from. Though those same pillars give some stability (and/or danger) to those in the mosh-pit. Some hip young blonde dude called Corey (and he looked like a Corey) introduced himself to me during The E.L.F. I don't know what that was about, but I didn't see him again. I did however see a friend that I went to high school with after I left the venue.

Anyways, here's some photo's from inthemix:
http://www.inthemix.com.au/photos23/081001-doesitoffendyou
I don't know about you, but I don't care to see close ups of the audience just hanging out, but half the photo's are just that. Also, I think it's plain rude to take photo's of one-self and their friends while someone is performing on stage. Especially when they're pointing the camera away from the stage, so that the band/artist isn't even in the background. You can take those kind of photo's anytime, why do it when it means you're ignoring a band/artist that you paid to see? Anyways, I've been meaning to rant about that for a while. Will probably say it again too.

http://www.metrotheatre.com.au/

PomoMofo

SPOD

THE FAINT

Pauly said it best in his entry:
http://badpauly.livejournal.com/1058546.html

Especially "The Faint... as awesome as I expected, rockier than I thought, and mixed the old with the new with perfection."