I’ve been slack. Really slack. I realised today that I
haven’t written a post for over 10 months. Inexcusable. But to be honest…life
got in the way. I went on holidays (several times), work got busy, weekends got
full. You know the drill.
Anyway, I’m going to try and bring this blog back. And to
start, I thought I’d do a bit of a dot point catch up of past gigs and general
news.
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I went to the inaugural Harvest Festival in
Brisbane last November and loved it! It was a great festival with a fantastic line-up
and a really chilled out vibe. I ended up catching the National, TV on the
Radio, Bright Eyes, Portishead, and the Flaming Lips, amongst others.
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In May, I was lucky enough to see the Purple
One, Prince, live at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. His gig was amazing
with a great set-list, high production values and lots of general
Prince-related awesomeness.
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In June, I travelled half way across the world
to see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in Hamburg and in London. The gigs were
incredible and something that I can cross off my bucket list. Separate gig
review post to come.
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I have tickets to see Radiohead in November!
Major excitement.
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Green Day have announced that they’re releasing
not one new album, but three new records. Uno,
Dos and Tre will be released in September, November and January
respectively. It’s a pretty ambitious project, so let’s see how the albums turn
out. The band’s new single, Oh Love,
came out early this morning and its….ok.
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Weezer announced that they are touring Australia
in January 2013. The band hasn’t come to our fair shores in over 16 years so
there is a lot of anticipation for this tour. Also, they’ll be playing the Blue Album in full!
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers will be headlining the
Big Day Out in January 2013 but seeing as their new record sucks, I’m not sure
I’ll be in attendance. Check out the full BDO 2013 line up here.
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I also have tickets to Harvest Festival 2012.
Gracing the bill are the likes of Beck, Sigur Ros, Mike Patton’s Mondo Cane,
Grizzly Bear, Ben Folds Five, Santigold, Cake, the Dandy Warhols and more!
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I went along to Henry Rollins’ spoken word gig
at the Powerhouse in early 2012. As always, it was amazing and Henry Rollins is
an outspoken genius.
That’s it for now. More to come soon.
