Tuesday, August 31, 2004
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 Aus Band Tries David Blaine Approach To New Album
Regurgitator or the Gurge as they're known here have decided to go for the Big Brother David Blaine approach to their new album.
They are holing up for the next few weeks in a see through studio plonked in the middle of Melbourne's Federation Square.
See it all at the Band in a Bubble website.
This lot were quite a tight outfit in the early 90's... sharp hard and fast songs.. it all seems a bit dated now and this apostle reckons that although this quite fun approach to their new lp it all smacks of spectacle rather than the onset of a killer album |
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Friday, August 27, 2004
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The Devil Makes The Best Music
Just picked up a copy of the Black Devil Club.
Great record, great story.
See the link |
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004
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I'm Listening To This Again
Remember this . They call it a trance classic.. all I remember was at the time this sounded way out there ... and for some reason it still sounds pretty fresh |
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Vulture Street
Powderfinger... yes they are named after that Neil Young song.
I don't know what it is but I'm falling in love with their last album Vulture Street.
Everybody bar me in Australia loved their debut and then seemed to forget about them when that awful band jet. turned up.
Powderfinger are pretty straight down the line rockers but for some strange reason it works.. almost like listening to a better produced and tighter version of Cream.
They aren't going to change the way we think but Vulture St is turning into my favourite down the line rock album of this decade. |
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Monday, August 23, 2004
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Big Hair @ Fabric
Big Hair part of the U-Freqs crew just played Fabric and the set is up online for everybody to have a listen to here.
I'll be listening just to hear what they've done with the Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band vs Derrick Carter part of the set.. and I like the idea of their treatment of johnny cash as well. |
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Saturday, August 14, 2004
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Kokon To Zai
Thanks to the good folks down at London's Kokon To Zai who have been doing great work spreading the good news with a prominant display of 12 Apostles vinyl.
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Friday, August 13, 2004
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I Do Love Fan Sites
Don't know why I haven't started blogging fansites before.. I particularly like this Japanese Cramps fan site with obligatory spelling mistakes. |
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Technology
We reckon that you'll soon be seeing this sort of technology again sometime soon
How about one of these just add this and you've got a party. |
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A Million Ways Not To Hear
Whilst we're on the ipod scene.. did you know that there are a million songs for download at their store
Only one problem if you live in Australia like this apostle you can't access any of them.
Actually as we learnt last week from the Sydney Morning Herald our copyright laws mean that we can't even download music off CD's we've bought without breaking the law.
The only thing we can do is record our own music and listen to it on the pod or even worse listen to your best mates' really crap band's demos.
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Thursday, August 12, 2004
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i pod vs the cassette
This is a great little photo essay comparing the new technology of the ipod vs the dependable old cassette.
It seems to us that the cassette wins hands down.
Funny that i should come across this at the moment as I've pulled the cassette player out again and am going through all my old AD90's which hold endless peel sessions and demos of bands who were friends in the 70's and 80's. Best of all though are the bootleg cassettes of gigs in the 80's that you used to be able to purchase as soon as you walked out of the gig.
Gigs like the Gun Club at Dingwalls or The Cramps at the Hammersmith Palais.
I once went round to some guy's house in Camden in the mid 80's who was a bootlegger.. the amount of cassettes lying around was incredible.. but that's all another story |
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Tuesday, August 10, 2004
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Downhill Battle.com Get Serious
Here's downhill battle.com, one of our favourite websites, latest concept Battle Torrent
If you're interested in being a lead developer for Battle Torrent, please contact them at : labs|at|downhillbattle.org
Their Objectives are:
To make it completely effortless for complete neophytes to download torrent files.
To make it as easy as possible for people who have websites to set up their own torrent tracker
To make sharing a torrent as fast and easy as posting a file to a website.
This is what they say
If we pull this off--and we can-- we'll have made sharing four-gigabyte files as easy as sending an email to your friend. And that will change our culture significantly. If distributing large media files becomes easier, people will create more of their own works and will experience more work created by other individuals. Just as simple blogging software led millions of people to create their own news and commentary publications which now complement and compete with major corporate news outlets, similar distribution tools for audio and video can do the same with television and music. For blogging, the roadblock was html, and blogging software solved that problem by letting people type as if they were writing email. For large audio and video files, the bottleneck is bandwidth costs and the difficulting of uploading files to a blog. BitTorrent solves the bandwidth problem, but creating torrents and trackers is difficult. What we plan to do with BattleTorrent can solve the ease of use problem. And integrating BitTorrent capabilities with blogging will make the experience seamless for bloggers and readers. That's when things get interesting.
The apostles love the idea of this .. we don't think corporate record companies will though
More info here |
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Saturday, August 07, 2004
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Rick James Funked
It's all over for Rick James known for the 1981 hit ``Super Freak,''. He died Friday, apparently of natural causes, police said. James died at 9:45 a.m. at a residence near Universal City, said a Police Department spokeswoman .
Bondi Apostle won't miss his hair
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Thursday, August 05, 2004
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Hollywood To Make Ian Curtis Movie
We've read it on the wires so it must be true. Hollywood has decided it's time to pervert the life and tragic death of Joy Division's lead singer Ian Curtis and starlet Jude Law is to be cast as the singer.
We gather that the picture will be based on the book by Curtis' widow whose name I now forget.... I read the book a number of years ago and have to say that it was a pretty average rock read. |
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Wednesday, August 04, 2004
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Chichester Rocks
Bondi apostle is excited .. his home town Chichester in the UK has finally after all these years produced a band that other people like. Hope of The States are current NME darlings and as far as we can gather even New York's fickle Bowery Ballroom crowd liked them.
Hope of The States are in Sydney next week and playing at the Annandale so I'll be down there to cheer them on.
Is the South rising again..2 great bands in the area.. the other being the Isle of Wight's The Bees
It takes me back to the glory days of the Vaultage 78 Brighton compilation and well remembered bands like The Piranhas, Dodgems and who can forget Peter & The Test Tube Babies ! |
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