Ranga On Ranga: Bowditch Interviews PM
News posted Monday, August 16 2010 at 11:00 AM.
Related: Clare Bowditch.
In an effort to canvass some last-minute yoof/hipster votes before Saturday’s federal election, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has taken part in an interview with Clare Bowditch on social networking site MySpace. (Christina Hendricks wasn’t available.)
The 40-minute interview, which covered the PM’s “policies and personality behind them”, will be broadcast tomorrow, 6pm, on the site’s new blog space MySpace Today.
Here’s what Bowditch had to say about it: “I asked very direct questions about many of the things that matter to me. I owned up about my JG impersonations, sought advice on how to master her ‘Karate Chop Hands’, and invited her to speak from the heart. She was open and threw in a few surprises.”
In completely unrelated news, Bowditch and her freshly named six-piece The New Slang will take part in the next MySpace “Secret Show” at an undisclosed venue in Sydney on August 18. To attend the event, fans will need to register their mobile for spam at myspace.com/secretshowsau.
Bowditch’s fourth album, Modern Day Addiction, was released on Friday (August 13).
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Clare Bowditch irks me.
This is stupid.
ZOMG, JG is getting IndieCred!
Mr Abbot should ditch the Mountain bike and cop a fixie!
hmmm looks like I'm back on abbott
I know what you mean. I'm sure she is a nice lady but her sultry-Brunswick-earth mother schtick drives me insane.
Coburg ^^^^^
MIA Born Free
MIA Is Evil
Whats with all the glorification of rangas? This sort of thing should not be encouraged. It is not good to draw attention to having red hair. This place disgusts me.
megan washington must be spewing she's not a bloodnut.
she looks too coburg earth mother in that shot.
i like that one song ''you look so good/ah-ha, it hurts'' way more than any of her other stuff.
This pairing is quite well orchestrated. Most of Bowditch's audience would be young, small-L liberal family types, too savvy to vote for Abbott, but not willing to risk a shift to The Greens. Safety cats, all of them.
ha safety cats..not bad
a bad scene that safety cat scene. it's basically brutalism, white walls red wine..chrome furntiture reno'd single fronted shit box's/
Most of Bowditch's audience would be well on their way to middle aged who still listen to JJJ in last ditch effort to hold on to their rapidly vanishing but once alternate youth. I'd also reckon that more than a fair few would have made the switch to The Greens years ago under the veil of dinner party radicalism but with the protection of their inner-city dwelling NIMBY interests paramount.
True. I guess when I think of young families of the arty/yuppie demographic these days, I'm thinking of people in their mid-30s.
Is the phrase ''fucking fluff piece'' or ''fucking puff piece''?
so i guess the myspace sponsorship is no more, then
''Enjoy the schmooze, comrade''.
how many kids does bowditch have now? there was a time not long ago when it felt like she was eternally pregnant... every dao interview she was pregnant! bloody hippies!
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I love threads where timewaster takes the bait unaware.
i reckon that picture of noel and tony blair is the exact moment when noel jumped the shark
''You'll love Coles(tm) Cheese Snax, they're great for entertaining members of Australia's cultural elite while discussing politics!''
- timewaster, namedropping whore
highfive
A colony of crabs, apparently. Colony was the word used.
Ha! You think that I couldn't see Toadphoney's lame joke a mile off?
I've only mentioned 'names' where they're relevant to the discussion, or in response to the thread topic.
Did anyone even watch this?
Myspace is pretty dead.
It's amazing. Bands that used to get 3000 plays a day now get 150 plays a day. Murdoch's trying to turn the whole thing into Facebook, but that's annoying. Constant gimmicks, pointless 'friend' bulletins and 'tweets'. Still good for music though, but it's just bands and spammers nowadays. Tom made his $500 million while the going was good.
Yep. you can still watch it now. Pretty entertaining. Bowditch was playing with a ball and then PM was holding a ball.
LOL
i'm just putting it out there, but i'd definitely hit that bowditch chick.
i can only find a 13min edit. i'd like to see the full version if it exists.
Listening to this now.
Q. ''beyonce or Lady Gaga?''
A. ''lady Gaga''
racialist ranga ^^^^
And, c'mon....Stones over Beatles?
And, c'mon....Stones over Beatles?
it may have become more hard-hitting and but I stopped listening.
Tried to watch it, got bored after 3 minutes, turned it off too.
then again, I am 15 years older than the target audience
you 50?
Didn't know where else to post it, but Free Slurpee for Red Heads