God bless those Coldplay fellas, they are having an ‘End of Decade Clearout Sale’ to help raise money for the charity Kids Company.
From December 17 to December 31 on eBay the band will sell everything from instruments and stage equipment, to costumes from the ‘Viva La Vida’ tour, to signed platinum discs, posters and much more…
They even made a video modelling some of the merch – including this guitar that plays alllll the notes!
Now don’t be scared now…. just a little hippie from the hills behind Byron Bay here. Thought I’d say hello and let you guys know what I get up to up here in the forest…
Well apart from all the lovely things that spring to mind when the words “Byron Bay” and “Hills” are mentioned, my day consists of writing songs, listening to songs, swimming in the water hole and at the moment, conversing with the resident python that has decided to get comfy in my kitchen!
You can check him out on myspace.com/loubradley… oh yeah…that’s me… Lou Bradley. And i am a girl in case you are wondering!
And in case you are interested, lately i have been listening to the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. When I came down to Sydney to launch my new album, I went into EMI to meet and play some songs for the folks that work there and I was lucky enough to be given Nitty’s latest album… lovin it! No country fluff there! Well if you made it this far into my blog thing, then thanks for reading.
And you should buy my album… they tell me it’s pretty good! Got a 4 starry in the Sunday Tele on the weekend!
And we all know it’s all about the stars isn’t it? NOT!!! xxx
After winning hearts and ears here and all over the world, the talented Angus & Julia Stone return with their new single And The Boys which has everything that you loved about their first album and EPs and a little bit more… If you’re not singing it after a couple of listens I’ll be very surprised.
Be one of the first in the world to check out their new video!
The video was directed by Kiku Ohe an independent director/filmmaker based in Sydney Australia. Kiku has directed music videos and documented content for a variety of bands including Digitalism, The Presets, Daft Punk, Soulwax/2MANYDJS, The Beautiful Girls, Fait Accompli and Cut Copy. The And The Boys video was all shot on location on the Northern Beaches of Sydney (where the Stones reside) and all effects (like the flying) where created in camera – no green screens here!
It’s about time for another bleak and slightly disturbing cinematic epic in the vein of The Proposition and Jesse James… and this calls for none other than the Kings of Audio Menace: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
The Road is the tale of a father and son’s survival and journey across a barren, post-apocalyptic (and sometimes cannibalistic and toothless) America. Think Thunderdome with fewer cars, colder winters, a better soundtrack, and no Tina Turner.
Nick Cave managed to capture humanity’s future despair in song: “The movie is about the loss of things, the absence of things, the lack of things,” he said. “The lack of the wife/mother is present in every frame of the film. The delicate edifice of the film holds the ache of her absence, tenderly and by the tips of the fingers. The music was composed as a direct response to the film. A light, haunting, simple score with a sense of absence and loss at its heart.”
The Road is is the big screen adaption of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy (author of similarly bleak No Country For Old Men), and is the perfect desaturated and austere post-apocalyptic film for the Festive Season (jks). Check out the trailer below:
After returning to the stage for the first time in three years to perform Bodies, Robbie Williams revisited X-Factor this week to perform a duet with Robbie’s declared favourite finalist Olly Murs to perform Angels… always a winner. The pair did the crowd proud – bro-hugs, pyrotechnics, crowd-chanting, and two handsome chaps in suits.
When in Australia recently, Robbie really pleased fans at Sydney’s Metro Theatre when he asked us to sing Ninjas instead of Angels… check it out here:
I’ve watched Keith Urban’s musical career from almost the start. From the early Tamworth Star Maker win in 1990 to his first album, his release as part of The Ranch and then the solo albums that followed. I’ve been lucky enough to see his career go from strength to strength in the live arena as well. In Brisbane Keith was the guitarist in a pub band called Rusty and the Ayres Rockettes which you couldn’t escape in the eighties. I saw The Ranch perform in venues holding about 200 punters and then his arena debut as support to LeAnn Rimes in early 2002. Fast forward to the present and last night at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena, in front of a capacity 11,000 fans, I witnessed Keith’s full US show and I’m here to say, this is one hell of a show.
The 13 semi’s waiting out front held one of the biggest stages to be fitted into an Australian venue. The reason it’s so big is because of the ramps that come into the crowd ensuring Keith and his band are right amongst the audience. So much so, there were no security barriers around the stage, if audience members wanted to walk up on stage that easily could, although I’m sure the security who are waiting in the wings would have something to say about that. The other major part of the set was the 5 massive video screens that form the back of the stage. State of the art, up close and personal vision that not only featured the band and amazing visual images but also crowd shots with camera placed all over the arena.
We Want War is the bombastic, epic (read seven minute) new single from These New Puritans’ forthcoming brilliant new album Hidden, out January 15.
Crazy video, crazy song and played LOUD, it’s like some indie industrial orchestral aural attack with BIG DRUMS and BIG SWORDS! Yes peeps, BIG FREAKING DRUMS – six foot to be exact – and BIG FREAKING SWORDS. The video was directed by Sydney-based motion-ographer Daniel Askill.
We Want War is a great intro to the sound of new album which is more broodier and steelier and interesting and experimental than we last heard with Beat Pyramid – which was, that’s right, Triple J Album Of The Week!
This band REALLY push the boundaries while still keeping this listenable and this album is super impressive.
AND! You can also download the Album Preview MP3 – a mash up of what’s to come on the new record, by heading to thesenewpuritans.com
“…if it wasn’t for the music there wouldn’t be a bloody t-shirt.”
Richard lush tells it like it is… and I don’t know about you, but I have definitely spent a few drunken nights with my mates pondering, ‘what it would have been like to record the Beatles at Abbey Road Studios, to sit on a sessions, like a fly on the wall watching Lennon and McCartney bicker about lyrics and melodies… if not for a few moments?’ I’ve even debated what it would have been like to be an engineer in the late 60’s, early 70’s in the heart of the revolution that was Beatles Mania. Sadly at the end of the day, I like most people can only speculate, for I was not even a thought in my parents mind at that stage of the game.
However Mr Richard Lush will tell you all about it. Why?? Because this man actually lived it!!! 2nd engineer for about half The Beatles’ back-cat, Mr Richard Lush moved to Australia in the 70’s to continue his engineer career after working for the biggest band that ever was. He’s won numerous platinum and gold albums. He’s done it all, from pop, to classical, film, soundtrack, jazz and even opera. I had the pleasure of extracting as much as I could from this living legends brain… So let’s hear what the man has to say.
TheInSound) Richard, you clearly love what you do! Have you always known you want to be an engineer or is it something you fell into?
RL) I remember quite distinctly my last year at school: my father was very ill passing away just before my final exams… My father, however always wanted me to go into real-estate but I was interested in music and after getting my first guitar from my parents (a nylon classical from Spain) I became much more excited about the possibilities of music. My favorite band at that time was The Shadows. They had an album out at the time and on the back of the cover I remember there was a little blurb between the engineers introducing the album, and I thought “Oh all right!”
I always wondered how music got onto vinyl… if I could work with someone like the Shadows that would be great!! So I wrote a letter to Abbey Rd Studios asking if they had any jobs going, and about a week later I got a letter in the mail saying, “we don’t actually have any jobs available at the moment but we will keep your name on record if anything comes up will be in touch… 3 months later I got a call saying they had something for me and I guess the rest is history… I have been very lucky along the way.
TheInSound) So it started out as a on the job training??
RL) Yah that’s right… It was an apprentice really… I started off in the tape library which is where everyone started. Our job was to work in the tape library 100’s of 1,000 of tapes. Log tapes, take tapes to cutting room, deliver tapes, all 4 and 2 track of course.
TheInSound) Rumours put to rest? I was told that engineers in the early Abbey Rd days used to wear white lab coats like a doctor would… is that true?
I was so stoked this week to find out that Mr. Glenny G and myself will be driving Empire Of The Sun’s CHARIOT from Brisbane to Sydney this coming Sunday.
We’ll be picking the beast up Sunday morning and swiftly moving down through the Sunshine Coast into Byron Bay. Come say hello to us if you see it (we’re super friendly people, seriously) AND WE’LL HAVE SOME CD GIVEAWAYS TOO!!!
If you want to be part of the action LIVE – then we’re going to be ‘tweeting’ the whole thing from our @eyesandearsoz account.
Tell all your friends who live along the coast that we’ll be making the journey and to follow! (Especially if the car breaks down and we need to crash at someone’s house for the week while the engine is being completely restored).
It is far too difficult for this inarticulate writer to express any kind of tribute to such a pivotal, brilliant and fascinating character as Lennon with mere words, so instead we let his own words and music paint the picture – and remember him with a few of our favourite clips (see below).
“I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?” – John Lennon
The face of music was literally changed forever. John lives on. Peace and love! (and basketballs and cigarettes!)
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