Archive for July, 2009
PARTY TIME, EXCELLENT!
July 31st, 2009 | By
Ladies and gentlemen… the time has come to cast aside the woolly socks and cosy nights in front of the tube to get your indie cool on once again and wig out alongside Brisbane’s finest bands at the Troubadour on Saturday August 8th.
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The bountiful line-up boasts a co-headline of The Boat People, fresh from their third USA tour in nine months, and the Hungry Kids of Hungary who are slotting in a quickie hometown show with their buds amongst national dates with Bertie Blackman and Little Birdy. While the Boaties are kicking goal after goal in the States with their pop-perfect songwriting prowess, the Hungries have been winning hearts back home with their charming grins, playful demeanour and a cannon of indie-pop gems.
The kooky kids from Ball Park Music will kick off proceedings with their unique pop recipe full of sliding trombones and heart-breaking folk, jangly guitars and honky-tonk piano, sad songs about Translink and happy songs about rotten storms.
Dan Parsons then showcases his new band on only their third ever outing. You wouldn’t know it though – the four-piece are old buddies who together effortlessly lead the Parsons project into rockin’ new territory.
And stick around for the after-party featuring the triumphant return of Brisbane’s self-coined ‘freeguardist’ revolving outfit Lost of Love. Featuring Edward Guglielmino, James O’Brien (The Boat People), Jackie Marshall, Lucas Arundell, Mick Elliot and Sam Schlencker (Skinny Jean), LoL’s performances of exclusively improvised material are heralded simultaneously as something that could be the best or worst thing you’ll see this year.
THE BOAT PEOPLE / HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY
DAN PARSONS / BALL PARK MUSIC
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8
THE TROUBADOUR (BRISBANE)
DOORS @ 8PM
TICKETS – $12 (PRE) / $15 (DOOR) – http://troubadour.oztix.com.au/
plus
LOST OF LOVE
playing
THE LATE SHOW @ 1AM
$5 AFTER MIDNIGHT / FREE IF YOU’RE THERE!
Lost of Love, Found Again
July 28th, 2009 | By
Infamous outfit Lost of Love formed in early 2006 after James O’Brien (The Boat People), Jackie Marshall, and Edward Guglielmino decided that Brisbane needed a band that went out of its way to piss off punters.
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Performances of exclusively improvised, never to be repeated material, made Lost of Love instantly, awkwardly legendary.
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Resplendent tales of bar room brawling in loved local venues of yonder, public protests in prominent music precincts highly tolerant of even urine soaked balladeers, and front page mainstream media outcries dogged Lost of Love from the outset. Scoffing in the face of avant-garde, this is considered their proudly presented curriculum vitae.
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Doomed for self-implosion, the turgid assembly lived and ultimately died in early 2008 by their self-coined ‘Freeguardist’ ideals, inspired by a quote in Richard Flanagan’s ‘Gould’s Book of Fish’ –
“Rough work with a soul will always be open to all, including condemnation and reviling, while fine work housing emptiness is closed to all insults and is easily ivied over with paid praises.”
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Today, with no band of term-coining brothers to huddle amongst, poor representation of music related public derision in the mainstream press, though mostly due to the massive LoL-shaped holes in their hearts, Lost of Love have decided to beat as one again.
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Spurning equal measures of seething opposition and intense affection from punters and music industry boffins alike, Lost of Love may be the band you love to hate, or hate to love; either way don’t throw away the opportunity to cast pithy review alongside the rest of Brisbane’s cool kids when they take to the Troubadour stage once more.
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