Friday, 1st of December, 2000

And it’s been a while since updation once again. I only do it so I can use my invented word “updation” you realise. Otherwise, I’d be blogging every single day, without fail.

Well I just got back from Melbourne on Wednesday night anyway. Since it’s now Friday, that’s not too long really! Melbourne was a ball of course. Went to all my fave record stores (see raves in entries below) and bought lots of wonderful goodies there, and then found some fabulous bookshops I hadn’t found before, as well as ones I knew about, and of course there’s two excellent comics shops as well…

Melbourne has some great zines as well, such as Sadness is in the Sky, focusing on all that post-rock stuff you know I love (Godspeed You Black Emperor! for instance). The latest issue, Numero 14, has attached their third CD compilation, We Are Now Flying At 33,000 Feet, with samples of all sorts of exciting bands including The For Carnation (sort-of murmury indie vocals with guitar/bass/drums and weird electronic noises, hard-disk processing and stuff - very interesting!)

The most overwhelmingly amazing thing about Melbourne (and I luuuuurve the place enough already y’unnerstan’?) is THE RADIO!. Here in Sydney we have 2SER and yeah they play some excellent underground electronica and a very leeeeetle bit of good indie stuff, and some good talks, but they’re not something you can listen to 24-hrs a day, and frankly they’re not very challenging much of the time. When/if we get FBi all will be fine.
In the meantime Melbourne has TWO community radio stations, both of which are miles better than 2SER. First is the deservedly famous 3RRR. I was listening to Triple R at about midday on Wednesday as I trammed into town, and they were playing this wonderful atmospheric experimental post-rock type stuff, instrumental indie rock, looong tracks, beautiful, right in the middle of the day. If they weren’t enough, there’s also 3PBS, arguably even better. What with both stations playing music almost 24-hrs (and the talks programs are pretty good too) there’s no need ever to listen to that government-run commercial station Triple J at all. It’s wonderful.

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