Tiger Choir (L-R): Hamish Cruickshank, Elliot Taylor and Sam J. Nicholson In life, I am perpetually late. I consistently turn up to work seven minutes after I’m supposed to start, and setting my alarm seven minutes earlier just makes me snooze it once more than I usually would. Stereotypes would have you believe that musicians…
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Upon seeing my friend, Elizabeth Taylor, in the bathroom of a bar one Saturday evening, the girlfriend of a boy who Elizabeth Taylor had slept with remarked: ‘I wish I had a weapon.’ On the one hand, I could understand why this girl would lash out. E.T. had knowingly had sex with her boyfriend while…
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The media and its agents (oh, aren’t they just to blame for everything?) want you to believe a lot of things so they can make money from you. They want you to think you’re unattractive so you’ll spend buy make-up and gym memberships trying to attract Prince or Princess Charming, just like in the movies….
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When I started writing this column, I thought that I would never run out of material. I’m obsessed with my relationships, fickle and do a lot of stupid things. These are all elements that lend themselves to a phenomenal well of subject matter. This remains true, but this week I had very little desire to…
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Adelaide certainly doesn’t deserve all the shit it gets but like most cities, it is unusual to find anything new emerging from it. When you go to a gig of a band you’ve never heard of, you always hope they’re going to blow your mind. Usually they don’t. But one night at a little venue…
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There was once a boy I thought was cute. I would see him traipsing about university and he looked vaguely familiar, but I just assumed I’d seen him at some point at one of the hovels I frequent. On one fateful evening, I run into him at a bar. His name is Jimmy Page (sort…
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As a frequent patron of the Ed Castle, I know what kind of crowd it usually attracts. What’s evidenced by just about every person in the band room on January 2nd 2010, however, is that they are not here for the Ed Castle. They are here because tonight, they are going to be wherever Earthless…
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People’s reactions to being written about tend to vary, but with my recent focus predominantly being on relationships and music, many of my loved ones have managed to fly under the radar. For my parents, the exploitation is dormant no more. While I was studying in the U.S., I undertook a subject by correspondence to…
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The line up at the Ed Castle’s Plus One on the 18th December 2010 is an odd one, not least of all evidenced by the fact that the members of opening act, Oh Minor, don’t seem to have any idea of who is to follow them, beyond the fact that their band name is We…
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I have been living with my housemate, Alice Planetoid, for almost 11 months now. In that time, I would estimate that I have asked her whether her parents are married, on average, once a fortnight, and yet have never managed to commit it to memory. For the purposes of this article, however, I took special…
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Honesty. It’s what we’re told is the best policy when we’re small and unable to make independent and informed judgments. Then you get older and learn that lying often gets you out of trouble. But more importantly, it often also prevents you from hurting people you care about. Several weeks after I started seeing Dracula,…
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As I prepared to interview Sydney band, Lions at your Door, I intently listened to their most recent single, ‘In A Sea’, over and over again. It started as research, but a couple of listens in, I couldn’t stop myself going back to their page and wishing there was some sort of repeat function on…
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1776 (L-R): Chris Cook, Mitchell Ruppe, Nigel Legerwood and Zach Whiton. As divergent as my views are about revivalist music, there are some bands who do it so well that it’s hard to say anything that’s not definitively in support of it. 1776 is one such band. The focus amongst their peers has seen a…
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Grunge and 50s rock ‘n’ roll are not often used to describe the same band. And yet, the members of (relatively) recently formed Betty Airs have somehow managed to infuse their sound with both influences. Theirs is a band creating old music through a more modern filter, whilst being careful not to overemphasise the grunge…
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