dirtylover said about 1 year ago or at 7:57PM on Tuesday, November 6 2007.
http://www.messandnoise.com/reviews/1335581
what a great review
I 've seen them about 3 or 4 times and I dig them
wish I could see them again, but will have to suffice with listening to their first LP as I haven't got their new one yet
scooby and a beer and cd coming up
I bought the new album a couple of weeks back but only started really listening to it last night. The opening track 'A moment of despair' floors me. I've been playing it all day.
Never seen them live.
these guys are fucking great. i keep meaning to get the second LP, as the tracks on myspace sound fantastic. watching ron peno get into the singing is a wonderful thing.
They're probably my favourite Australian act of the last couple of years.
there's not much that compares with them at the moment, in australia at least.
I love them so much, my band covered a Darling Downs song on our album.
just realised they are playing the Vanguard in Newtown tonight
I can't get there, but I strongly advise those who can to get ya arses down there
two of Australia's best songwriters putting there all into some fine melancholy tunes
I just saw them play an hour long set, for free, in the sunlit backyard of Pure Pop Records, in front of about 30-40 people. You could smoke, you could drink (no Port Phillip beer tax on my $11.99 Coopers six pack, bamesjaker!), and they were excellent.
Ron Peno gets better with age- I am looking forward to seeing him reunited with Brett Myers at the Don't Look Back show- and Kim Salmon's guitar and banjo playing was a revelation.
All good. Where were you?
Well, you could have informed people BEFORE the show, TJ...
just sayin'
Seems like Pure Pop Records is an oasis of fiscal restraint in an ocean of gratuitous pricing.
That sounds like the perfect setting in which to see Darling Downs.
Did Kim pull out the electric guitar? He did some mighty fine blues-ish work at the recent EBC show.
The Cooper's were BYO, bames, I got them around the corner, from Acland Cellars, though Pure Pop are applying for a liquor license.
No electric, all acoustic, with about a third of the set on banjo.
I had an interesting chat with both of them afterwards, especially Kim, about the ''Don't Look Back'' shows, but I am not going to spill here.
I'm surprised you didn't bring some of your home brew on site as well.
great video on you tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oML6tZb3A4
Any see the recent East Brunswick Club show? Peno was 20 minutes late, so Kim had to start without him - with Michael Stranges on drums. Apparently it ended OK, though it wasn't the best preparation.