Melbourne’s Eddy Current Suppression Ring aren’t letting success get to their heads, writes DARREN LEVIN. Today’s lug is not for the faint of heart. A rooftop carpark, 10 flights of stairs and a bootload of gear that needs to be carted across Melbourne’s Elizabeth Street - Frogger-style - during peak hour. Eddy Current Suppression Ring’s alliterative bass player Brad Barry draws the s...
After 11 years, Perth veterans The Tigers have finally gotten the mix of experiment and structure right – or have they? MATTHEW GILES reports. The Rosemount Hotel is a venue of perpetual resurrection. Though an award-winning fan favourite and one of the major houses of original music in Perth, it has been renovated and relaunched a number of times since 2001 in an effort to attract bi...
TREVOR BLOCK spoke to SixFtHick’s Geoff Corbett about band dynamics, crowd control and life on the road ahead of the band’s performance at CherryRock008. Toe-tapping live photos by TIM CHUMA. The two front men thing is a kind of unique idea. How do you and Ben [Corbett] divide up the songs? Basically whoever writes the lyric sings the lyric. We somehow wind up with half and half. I...
Melbourne’s all-improvising duo ii is a hard act to pigeonhole. Just don’t call them crunk, jungle or lounge, writes ADAM D MILLS. With sunny park photography by KATY STEVENS and colourful triangle photos by JODI SHANNON. ii is comprised of two humans, Alex Nosek and Jon Tjhia, neither of whom are easily definable by neat musical roles like “guitarist”, “keyboardist” or “drummer”. Ind...
Ghosts, guitars, shoegaze and soul. ADRIAN TRAJSTMAN chats to Tim Hoey of Cut Copy about their new album, In Ghost Colours. On your new LP, In Ghost Colours, the synth sparkle, plump bass and disco haze are still there, but it seems Cut Copy is heading in a more song-based direction with tighter structures and crisp, defined progressions. In retrospect, now that this sophomore album’s...
After nearly a million line-up changes and a sojourn in Europe, Tactics are back. DAVID NICHOLS talks to lead tactician Dave Studdert about the genesis of the band. Talking to Dave Studdert about Tactics, or most things, fills one (me) with a sense of wonder at a musical world that might have come to pass if he’d been given just a little more weaponry for his battalion. Studdert’s ...
SAM FELL sits down with Ben Andrews and gets to the bottom of the spaces that lie between My Disco, while SEAN FENNESSY takes the portraits. Sitting in the beer garden out the back of the Rainbow Hotel on St. David Street in Fitzroy is Ben Andrews, guitarist for Melbourne D.I.Y. math rockers, My Disco. It’s quite poignant we’re sitting here in this particular beer garden together, fo...
A lazy afternoon with a thick passage, fresh vegetables and Baseball who could ask for more. SAM FELL gets his hands dirty talking to Cameron post Animal Kingdom. Photos by BEN BUTCHER, from Russia with love. Wednesday afternoon in Fitzroy is lazy. Brunswick Street bakes slowly in the late summer heat as people wander, lethargic and sweaty, from shop to shop. The cafes are full and ...
In their hometown of Sydney, EMMY HENNINGS discovers Charge Group will not be rushed. Photos by PETER OTTERY. It has become easier, as music fades into a sort of sonic wallpaper – downloadable, portable, phone - in - a - song - from - the - comfort - of - your - couch – to forget about its ritual power. When music is everywhere you lose sight of the fact that it works best when framed...
The ongoing ‘Do The Pop!’ series mark the birth of modern Australian music, PATRICK EMERY is there all over again. While the ABC’s Long Way to the Top history of Australian rock & roll condemned Radio Birdman to a fleeting video image in a collage of also ran Australian rock bands of the 1970s, most narratives of contemporary Australian music recognise Birdman, along with Brisbane...