Archive for May, 2009

May
13
2009

[gigs] Attention Silvermine Tapes fans!

Winnerfest was fantastic on the weekend, here is No Through Road (care of Spoz)

Other highlights include local supergroup (with members of Hit the Jackpot, Roo Shooter, The Moonies and many more Adelaide bands) the Avant Gardeners who played their best gig yet, here’s one of their tracks. Apparently they are playing again fairly soon, not sure of the details though

It was also great to see the return of a number of the members of Little Ice Age in a new band called Bye Bye Mountain. Here they are at an earlier appearance at the Grace

Other newer bands worth looking out for based on impressive  Winnerfest appearances are post-rock types Steering By Stars and Billy Bishop Goes to War.

It was great to see favourites  The Sea Thieves and Guy Blackman sgain, though the front bar wasn’t always the best for the quieter acts. Henry Wagons fit in well there though, he’ll be returning to Adelaide in July with the full band.

The big news this week is another gig coming up at the Metro which is of interest to fans of The Silvermine Tapes or Flat Stanley. I’ll cut’n'paste straight from the Delicates’ myspace page:

Ladies, gentlemen:

In their live debut, please be upstanding for The Delicates. The band contain some familiar faces to those sniffing around Adelaide’s indie rock venues in the 90s: Max Mackinnon and Paul Champion on guitars, Stuart Symons on drums. The band will be kicking out in their first show to celebrate their debut album The Thunderous Sound of The Delicates.
http://www.myspace.com/delicates

They will be ably assisted by:

Melbourne free-rock 3-piece Battlesnake. These boys hold down 100% improvised thundering hip-shaking rock, have never played the same song twice, and sound like the joyous hollering child of The Necks, James Brown, The Breeders, and an old Ninja Tunes compilation. (Yes, it was a group marriage. Well, common-law marriage anyway.)

Battlesnake are Michael Pulsford and Angus Kemp, who you may know from The Silvermine Tapes, and Adam Smith, who doesn’t want his past dragged into this.
http://www.myspace.com/battlesnakemusic

Fading Fires – a Melbourne duo featuring Mat Watson (Mountains In The Sky) on drums and Chris Rainer on guitars: half lap-steel psychedelia, half shivery Krautrock, all class.
http://www.myspace.com/thefadingfires

Frontiers In Photography – Sydney’s Scott Gillespie (ex Silvermine Tapes) presenting his hazy, folk-inflected portals to other dimensions.
http://www.myspace.com/myfrontiersinphotography

The astute among you will notice that half the Silvermine Tapes will be on stage that night. Who knows where that might lead?

I was planning on going to the Screamfeeder/NTR gig but as a huge Silvermine Tapes fan I don’t think I could miss this.

MAY

  • 16th Hit the Jackpot, The Stabs and Deaf Wish at the Metro.
  • 16th Like Leaves, The Swiss, Wolf & Cub DJs at the Ed Castle.
  • 17th Jamie Hutchings at the Grace Emily.
  • 29th Steering By Stars, Antony of the Future, Scarlet Ives at the Ed Castle.
  • 30th Philadelphia Grand Jury at Jive.

JUNE

  • 5th Screamfeeder (playing Kitten Licks) and No Through Road at the Ed Castle.
  • 5th The Delicates, Battlesnake, Fading Fires, Frontiers in Photography at the Metro.
  • 6th Fkn Tutts and the Weevils at the Metro.
  • 8th Flipper at Live on Light Square with God God Dammit Dammit and Kamikaze. Sorry, hadn’t noticed the change of date – this is now on Friday the 5th.
  • 19th Leader Cheetah launch with No Through Road, Like Leaves, The Weevils at Jive.
  • 23rd Ghostface Killah at HQ.
  • 28th The Sea Thieves with the Keepsakes at the Grace Emily.

JULY

  • 10th The Wagons at the Wheatsheaf.
  • 23rd Fourplay at the Gov
  • 29th Jane’s Addiction at Thebby Theatre.

On the Stereo

  • No Through Road - Winner cd (Low Transit Industries)
  • The Fall – Imperial Wax Solvent cd (Sanctuary)
  • The Fall - Reformation Post TLC cd (Slogan / Sanctuary)
  • The Fall – Fall in a Hole 2cd (Castle / Sanctuary)
  • Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle cd (Spunk / Drag City)
  • Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career cd (4AD)
  • Sugar Minott – Sugar Minott at Studio One 2LP (Soul Jazz)
  • Various - Studio One Funk 2LP (Soul Jazz)
  • Jackie Mittoo - The Keyboard King at Studio One 2LP (Universal Sound)
  • El-B - The Roots of El-B cd (Tempa)

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May
12
2009

Google Transit

I’ve only just noticed this week that Adelaide now has Google Transit. When you look at Adelaide on google maps you can select “transit” on the “more” menu. All public transit routes are then shown, for example see here for an example. Note that bus stops are shown, if you click on a bus stop it will open a window showing all the buses that stop there, as well as when the next ones are due. You can click a link to more timetable information. Also, you can search for directions by public transport. Here’s an example to get from the airport to norwood
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I’ve tried out a few things, and as is usual with these sorts of automated route planners it doesn’t always choose the best one, especially when bus trips are combined for walking. For example, while it did a good job of identifying options for bus trips from near my house, it did a terrible job of telling me how to get to one of the nearest bus stops since the best way involves crossing a park (the directions given turned a 5-10 walk to a 30min one!), but overall I think it’s an impressive tool. In particular it is nice being able to combine with street view if you need to get off the bus at an unfamiliar stop and want to know what it looks like.

So far it is only available in Adelaide & Perth in Australia, though it is available in many more cities overseas. Presumably more Australian cities will be added in the future.

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May
03
2009

[gigs]

Quick update on gigs coming up. One change is that as far as I can tell, Cut Chemist is not the support at the Adelaide De La Soul show. There is conflicting info from different sources but the latest ads definitely show Dexter as the support.

MAY

  • 8th De La Soul and DJ Dexter at the Shores Complex.
  • 8th Like Leaves, Scotch of St James, Streetlight at Rocket.
  • 9th WINNERFEST. No Through Road album launch at the Metro, with The Sea Thieves, Guy Blackman, Henry Wagons, Avante Gardeners, Home for the Def, Fire! Santa Rosa Fire!, Billy Bishop Goes to War and lots more.
  • 16th Hit the Jackpot, The Stabs and Deaf Wish at the Metro.
  • 16th Like Leaves, The Swiss, Wolf & Cub DJs at the Ed Castle.
  • 17th Jamie Hutchings at the Grace Emily.
  • 30th Philadelphia Grand Jury at Jive.

JUNE

  • 5th Screamfeeder and No Through Road at the Ed Castle.
  • 6th Fkn Tutts and the Weevils at the Metro.
  • 8th Flipper at Live on Light Square with God God Dammit Dammit and Kamikaze.
  • 23rd Ghostface Killah at HQ.
  • 28th The Sea Thieves with the Keepsakes at the Grace Emily.

JULY

  • 23rd Fourplay at the Gov
  • 29th Jane’s Addiction at Thebby Theatre.

Vic Chesnutt is also touring in July but no Adelaide show (I’ll probably go to the Sydney one though).

On the Stereo

  • Gas - Nah und Fern 4cd (Kompakt)
  • Appleblim - Dubstep Allstars Vol. 6 cd (Tempa)
  • Andy Stott – Unknown Exception cd (Modern Love)
  • Autechre – Anti cdep (Warp)
  • Subtle – Wishingbone cd (Lex)
  • Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater Remixes cdep (Matador)
  • Amon Tobin – Verbal Remixes & Collaborations 2EP (Ninja Tune)
  • DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Product Placement 2LP (no label)
  • Yuganaut – This Musicship cd (ESP)
  • Alan Silva and his Celestial Communication Orchestra – Luna Surface LP (BYG/Actuel)

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