Perth Music

Be sure to check out local lads The Panda Band as they tour WA before heading out on the Sleepy Jackson national tour. They will be playing the following dates:
Thur 31st August - Prince Of Wales Hotel Bunbury
Sat 2nd September - Fly By Night Club - All Ages 2pm
Sat 2nd September - Fly By Night Club - Licensed 8pm

Special Guests include New Rules For Boats, Jeff Strong and From The Skies (Malcolm Clark’s side project from The Sleepy Jackson)

Little Birdy - Come On Come On

Claire Clarke - My Temptation

Little Birdy will be hitting the road in September to launch their new single, Come On Come On, so the wait is over for Little Birdy lovers and friends. Another date has been added to the original tour, Tuesday 12 September at Ruby’s Lounge in Belgrave, Victoria.
Joining Little Birdy on the road will be one of Perth’s most popular bands, One Horse Town. One Horse Town will be playing all shows around Oz, except Adelaide where the very awesome Special Patrol will be playing .

In Sydney Something With Numbers will be opening the night, and in Perth the heart-breakingly beautiful music from Jeff Strong will be opening both shows .
For more details check the tours section of the website www.littlebirdy.net. Tix to all shows on sale now!
Tour Dates:
AUGUST
Wed 30 Gaelic Club, Sydney
SEPTEMBER
Sat 2 Newcastle Leagues Club, Newcastle
Tue 5 The Zoo, Brisbane
Wed 6 The Great Northern Hotel, Byron Bay
Fri 8 Fowlers Live, Adelaide
Sun 10 Peninsular Lounge, Mornington Peninsular
Tues 12 Ruby’s Lounge, Belgrave
Wed 13 Corner Hotel, Richmond
Fri 15 Prince of Wales, Bunbury
Sat 16 Amplifier Bar, Perth
Friday Oct 27 The Domain, Sydney - Legs 11 – www.legseleven.com.au
A special concert for Breast Cancer Research
with Tim Rogers and Tex Perkins with the Sydney Youth Orchestra, Sarah Blasko, Clare Bowditch, Bob Evans
Sat Dec 20- Homebake. Sold out unfortunately.

You can also download the new Little Birdy single for a limited time from the Triple J website or just get it here.

There seems to be a growing number of ‘rock’ bands that are following a formula of trends that they think makes them ‘rock’. As more and more bands follow these trends it causes rock bands to become almost as fake as engineered pop bands.

One trend that I’m getting sick of is the half mullet. The full mullet almost made a complete comeback but I think people got scared of 80’s memories so it seems that it has turned into the half-mullet. Rock bands have all got these now and I’m getting sick of it. But this isn’t quite as bad as the painted finernails. What once started as a goth and emo trend has come over to the rock bands and it’s catching on like a house on fire. Phil Jamieson, lead singer of Grinspoon and new band The Lost Gospel, was on JTV on Saturday morning and he had pink fingernails. Pink! Painted fingernails on guys just doesn’t shock people like it used to, it just looks stupid.

One final rock trend that I’m getting sick of seeing, I blame At The Drive In for. It’s the big afro on the white guitarist. Off the top of my head I can think of Gyroscope and Wolfmother in helping this trend and they need to stop. Yes rock bands had afros in the 70’s and yes 70’s rock music is making a comeback but that doesn’t mean new bands need to try and look like they have come from that era.

The formula for a rock bands image might as well be constructed from a reality show: Get 4 white guys, let three of them grow half mullets and a bit of stubble, one to grow an afro, paint their fingernails, wear op shop t-shirts (or a shirt with a skeleton on it) and ripped jeans. Record 2 songs about girls, 3 songs about drinking, 1 song about fighting, 2 really catchy songs about nothing, 1 slow song and 1 fast 2-minute song. Call them something that makes no sense but has a ring to it and something that they’ll hate having to explain for the next 5-10 years.

If you’re a rock band starting out, just be yourself because people admire individuality above all else.

Message From The Presidents:

The Presidents of The United States of America are returning to Australia in late October. We apologize for the cancellation of their Spring tour. When the band returns, they will be using a different promoter and so the tickets for the Spring tour promoted by Blast will need to be refunded. Again, to be clear, the tickets you purchased for the April PUSA tour will not be honoured so please refund them where you purchased them. For information on the new PUSA tour, including dates and where to get tickets, go to http://www.presidentsrock.com/tour/. Ticket holders of the cancelled Presidents of the United States of America from earlier this year will NOT be able to use those tickets for the October tour. They need to buy a new ticket from www.heatseeker.com.au.

New Tour Dates:
Sydney - Metro Theatre - Sun Oct 22
Melbourne - Hi Fi - Wed Oct 25
Perth - Metropolis Fremantle - Thur Oct 26
Brisbane - The Zoo - Sat Oct 28

Bob Evans - Nowhere Without You

This Saturday night The Simian Line headline an allstar cast at The Rosemount and have their debut EP coming out very soon.  Supporting the Perth rockers will be Grand Central, The Reserves and The Murmurs.  Doors open at 8pm so get down early and enjoy the rock.
For more info visit www.simianline.net or www.myspace.com/simianline

Eskimo Joe have had an excellent year so far with a platinum album, gold single and new song SARAH being the second most added song to national radio in the last week!

The boys are now half way through their near sold-out national ‘Black Fingernails, Red Wine‘ tour (see dates below for remaining tix). They will also have a brand new website up and running very soon.

Remaining Tour dates:
Thursday August 24 Peninsula Lounge, Mooroduc VIC With Josh Pyke
Friday August 25 - SOLD OUT!!! Forum Theatre, Melbourne VIC With Josh Pyke
Saturday August 26 Forum Theatre, Melbourne VIC With Josh Pyke
Thursday August 31 NEW VENUE : Saloon Bar, Launceston TAS With Josh Pyke
Friday September 1 NEW VENUE : The Grandstand Hall, Hobart Showgrounds TAS With Josh Pyke
Saturday September 2 Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide SA With Josh Pyke
Thursday September 7 Club Capitol, Perth WA With Bob Evans
Friday September 8 - SOLD OUT!!!! Metropolis, Fremantle WA With Bob Evans

OK so I need someone to explain to me how and why clubs are playing remixes of Rock music. Not pubs, but clubs. I went out on the weekend to a club and it had a coverband section and a club music section. Now I don’t know when these two genres became so entwined that they could mix and match but I don’t like it.

It just sounds wrong when an extended Tricky remix of a 50 Cent song blends into a version of Bernard Fannnings ‘Wish You Well‘ that even Bernard himself would be ashamed to put his name to. I seriously doubt that Evermore wanted a room full of 19 year old girls booty shaking to ‘It’s Too Late‘ when they wrote that song. And don’t get me started on a Doof Doof version of a Wolfmother song.

Every 2 or 3 years there’s a new club version of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit‘ which would make Kurt Cobain turn in his grave. I understand it’s a good song but to go completely against the nature of the genre is like prostituting music. It’s the same with Emo music which has come about by blending pop and punk music. Punk music started to be almost the opposite of pop music so the blend just doesn’t make sense.

Anyway it just got on my nerves.