There’s a lot to be said for “a night out in Brisbane in Melbourne”. Said events occur when hordes of ex-Brisbanites descend en masse upon any given Melbourne venue to witness those Brisbanites who have stuck it out up north playing their brand of whatever it is they play up there. Tonight’s hosts a...
A guitar amp precariously bounces along to the rhythms propounded by Ninetynine. Shortly after a handful of girls – from all ends of the earth, it seems – join it, and the scene bathes in the glow of early nineties community West Coast “alternative” idealism. Only weeks after hearing the news that L...
It’s passé to be big in Japan, but Finland is an entirely different matter. “We’re reasonably popular there, which is quite odd,” explains Ninetynine’s self-effacing vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Laura MacFarlane. “I think that’s just because we’ve got a label there and we’ve actually made the...
With Cameron Potts Ninetynine began the day with Head Gap Studio’s Quiet Achiever, Sloth on the drums, tuning the kit to sound like a Russian Tank. We’d done a day at Sing Sing and a little time later, took our tapes to the headquarters of fine recordings, Head Gap, in Preston. Our Man with the Vibraphone, Barry turns up at the door at 1.30 with a beautiful full-size number from the 60s. Mikes were in place, headph...