5th Laneway Festival with Echo & The Bunnymen, Eddy Current Suppression Ring and lots more.
6th Steering By Stars at the Ed Castle with Red Ink.
11th RZA at Fowler’s Live.
12th Le Rayon Vert DJ Set at the Metro.
13th Avant Gardeners at the Metro.
13th Satan’s Cheerleaders at Higher Ground.
19th Yo La Tengo at Fowler’s Live.
20th Steering By Stars, Sincerely Grizzly at the Jade Monkey.
23rd Brian Jonestown Massacre at Fowlers.
25th Steering By Stars at the Ed Castle.
26th Satan’s Cheerleaders at the Crown & Anchor.
26th Hit the Jackpot at Supermild.
27th London Sinfonietta: Pacific Currents at the Adelaide Town Hall.
28th London Sinfonietta: Wind & Glass at the Adelaide Town Hall.
MARCH
5-8th WOMADelaide at Botanic Park with the Skatalites, Calexico, Ravi Shankar, Dean & Britta and lots more.
6th Wayne Shorter Quartet at the Festival Theatre.
7th The Necks at the Spiegeltent.
7th Pavement at Thebby
12th Robert Forster is the guest at Julia Zemiro’s Comfort Zone in the Spiegeltent.
13th Dinosaur Jr at Fowlers Live.
13th Hit the Jackpot with Naked on the Vague at the Metro.
18th Raekwon at HQ.
24th The Pixies at Thebby (playing Doolittle)
Rumour has it that the Wedding Present are looking to possibly tour Australia after a visit to Japan in May. An Adelaide show might be a bit much to ask for … perhaps another visit to Melbourne will be required if it happens.
Also one of my favourite bands from my Sydney days were Crow, they’re back together and have a new album on the way so a tour should be on the cards as well.
On the Stereo
Joe Morris Quartet – Today On Earth cd (AUM Fidelity)
Vic Chesnutt – North Star Deserter cd (Constellation)
Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band – 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons cd (Constellation)
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone cd (Anti)
Death – … For the Whole World to See cd (Drag City)
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights cd (Load)
Mark Stewart + Maffia - Learning to Cope With Cowardice cd (On U Sound)
Machinefabriek - Weleer 2cd (Lampse)
Chicks on Speed – Cutting the Edge 2cd (Chicks on Speed)
Max Tundra – Parallax Error Beheads You cd (Domino)
It happened almost a week ago but I’ve only just heard that Eric Rohmer has died. He was, for me, the best film director there has been. It’s hard to descibe, since many people seem to find his films boring, but for me they are perfect. This blog is named for one of them, but I have greatly enjoyed them all, and while he did live to a good age and was making films almost to the end, I still cannot help but be very sad at the news. No more Rohmer, no more Bergman … for me no-one matches these two, and now they are both gone.
The other day I was excited at the prospect of a new album from A Silver Mt Zion coming out very soon, now I’ve found out that two more of my favourite artists have new ones out in the next couple of months – Autechre and Joanna Newsom.
I’ve had a dig around on youtube to find some great videos of some of their older work, first up some nice unofficial Autechre video clips:
Clipper from Tri Repetae
Dropp from EP7
A lesson in how to dance to Autechre featuring Cfern from Confield.
Now some videos for A Silver Mt Zion:
Movie (Never Made) from He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms
and a live clip of 1,000,000 Died to Make This Sound from 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons in two parts (great footage but low quality upload, also the song is interrupted due to a weird setup at the festival):
Next, here is some live footage of Joanna Newsom from ATP curated by the Dirty Three (on the topic of Joanna Newsom live, at the show at the Forum next week she’ll be supported by the excellent Ned Collette & Wirewalker)
Satan’s Cheerleaders play at the Cranka this Friday, their first show since they played a great gig last year with God God Dammit Dammit & the Barons of Tang at Enigma. Well worth seeing, and for those who are already familiar with them there’s some great new material to hear.
Saturday offers an excellent choice between Neko Case at Fowlers, or Legends of Motorsport plus No Through Road at the Metro.
One more thing this weekend is that this Sunday arvo I’ll be doing a DJ set at the Metro from 4-7pm, and I’m in the mood for reggae.
Coming up in February is a rare gig by the Avant Gardeners at the Metro on the 13th. They were last spotted at Winnerfest in May last year (video here).
Also, I’d previously listed the Dinosaur Jr gig in March as being on the 12th – fortunately that was wrong, it’s on the 13th. Fortunate because Robert Forster is appearing that night at Julia Zemiro’s Comfort Zone.
Here’s Satan’s Cheerleaders at the Cranka last year (Adelaide band video care of Spoz as usual)
Also to celebrate the upcoming release of a new album from A Silver Mt Zion (or whatever variant of their name they’ll be using this time) here is a live performance of Blind Blind Blind from their last album (in two parts)
and from their second album, Could’ve Moved Mountains, again in two parts.
It would be really nice if they finally tour Australia after this one. In fact, in a little over a week they will be right at the top of my list of bands that I desperately to want to see live. Expect more Silver Mt Zion promotion in future posts in the hope that I convert some fans and they buy the album and then the band tours because they are so popular here. I can hope can’t I?
One more piece of news before I get on with the gig listings – SWANS ARE NOT DEAD.
JANUARY
15th Satan’s Cheerleaders at the Crown & Anchor
16th Neko Case at Fowlers Live
16th Legends of Motorsport & No Through Road at the Metro.
17th Le Rayon Vert DJ set at the Metro.
20th Handsome Family at the Grace Emily.
20th (Melbourne) Joanna Newsom at the Forum.
21st (Melbourne) The Dirty Three and the Laughing Clowns at the Forum
22nd The Dirty Three at Fowlers Live.
22nd (Melbourne)The Laughing Clowns at the East Brunswick Club.
23rd (Melbourne) Camera Obscura at the Corner Hotel.
FEBRUARY
5th Laneway Festival with Echo & The Bunnymen, Eddy Current Suppression Ring and lots more.
11th RZA at Fowler’s Live.
12th Le Rayon Vert DJ Set at the Metro.
13th Avant Gardeners at the Metro.
19th Yo La Tengo at Fowler’s Live.
27th London Sinfonietta: Pacific Currents at the Adelaide Town Hall.
28th London Sinfonietta: Wind & Glass at the Adelaide Town Hall.
MARCH
5-8th WOMADelaide at Botanic Park with the Skatalites, Calexico, Ravi Shankar, Dean & Britta and lots more.
6th Wayne Shorter Quartet at the Festival Theatre.
7th The Necks at the Spiegeltent.
7th Pavement at Thebby
12th Robert Forster is the guest at Julia Zemiro’s Comfort Zone in the Spiegeltent.
13th Dinosaur Jr at Fowlers Live.
18th Raekwon at HQ.
24th The Pixies at Thebby (playing Doolittle)
On the Stereo
Cat Power – The Greatest cd (Matador)
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Wilding in the West (Spunk)
Larsen – Musm II cd (Important)
Magik Markers – A Panegyric to the Things I Do Not Understand cd (Gulcher)
There seem to be a lot of gigs happening on the same nights in this week’s gig guide, so possibly some tough choices coming. There’s four things this Friday, I think it would be a bit overambitious for me to aim for more than two though. I’ll go for the two late additions – locals Cheer Advisory Council, who I’ve been wanting to see for quite a while, they’re probably on first so get to the Jade nice & early if you want to see them. Later on there’s Joker at the monthly dubstep night at Live on Light Square. I haven’t seen any for quite a while, probably not since Reso back in August, and a Joker set is supposed to be about as good as it gets, so I’m definitely keen.
Note also that another week brings another Wu Tang member to Adelaide, with Raekwon touring in March.
JANUARY
7th Dan V is playing a solo set with Two Suns at the Jade Monkey.
8th Kaki King at Jive.
8th Method Man & Redman at the Shores.
8th Cheer Advisory Council with the Honey Pies & Keepsakes at the Jade Monkey.
8th Joker at Live on Light Square
9th Like Leaves are supporting DZ at the Ed Castle.
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