Xray Dubs - brisbane tag

John Foxx

Mon, 05 May 2008 01:43:51 GMT

I saw Foxx last night, it was totally fantastic. He gave a performance of his work 'Tiny Colour Movies' which I found particularly moving (its a very ambient series of compositions for super-8 home movies and other found footage -- extremely Ballardian). After that there he returned to the stage with his latter-day collaborator Louis Gordon and performed updated versions of his more familiar material (i.e. stuff from Metamatic & later material, and even at least one track from early Ultravox! material). Despite its slight updating (mostly in the low end) it was the icy electro synthpunk typical of what you'd expect of Foxx, only it puts the current rash of 20 year olds imitating this style in the charts to complete shame. Loud, clean and crisp sound system helped as well. Remarkably well-preserved for his age too. The only downside was the small crowd it drew to the Tivoli, anyone who claims to be a fan of electronic music, "electro" or any of it's thousand modern variations and who misses it without a good excuse is a complete pretentious dilettante who should never be taken seriously on the topic of electronic music ever again. Inspiring night all round.

Hot buttered soul @ The Alibi, New Farm, Fri 4 Nov

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:56:28 GMT

Both Lisa and I will be DJing at 'Hot Buttered Soul' this Friday, 4 Nov 2005, at the Alibi Room, Brunswick St New Farm, QLD. I plan on playing Phil Spector style 60s-girl-group productions, and classic late 60s and early 70s soul.

> > > > So we're going to have it on Friday 4th November
> > > > downstairs at the Alibi Room, from about 6.30 to 12. 
> > > > There's about 5 other people playing which means that
> > > > you guys should get about 45 mintues each to play
> > > > whatever soul gems you see fit.

Update:

More pictures here and here.

Golden Orb Weaver

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:06:24 GMT

This Golden Orb Weaver spider set up residence on our back deck a couple of weeks ago (from My new life in the off world colonies).

Brisbane bar crawl

Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:07:04 GMT

A big start at the "Bowery" in Ann St last night littered with too many Moscow Mules and interesting new people to meet. A pity they just wouldn't sell us jugs of the stuff, as we were sitting out the back celebrating Emily's 27th birthday with frequent trips to the bar. Met her fellow writers and photographers from the magazine she writes for as well as plenty of other nice people too.

Then we ran off to this tiny little venue where we saw a promising band called something like "Cold Spoon Conspiracy" (although they do need a better name). They play rock with high pop sensibilities, not a massively original concept but pretty tight in their execution and they might get somewhere with it I think. A terrible PA really prevented from hearing the vocals properly but the band itself was tight, in control and pretty interesting. The venue was very intruiging, a small shoebox on Ann St in the same building that the old IMA was in. No bar (byo only) trashy flouro lighting and graffitti all over the walls with a totally shite PA -- made me reminisce about the old warehouse gigs we used to put on in Sydney all those years ago. When such spaces where possible there.

I also saw one song from a band called "Oh Belgium" but they sounded like a poorly recorded outtake from a P.I.L. session so we left them to it (as also being past midnight the bottle-o had shut) and abandoned the place for the 'Depot', a large club upstairs in Brunswick St with plenty of space to move around and just the sort of no-bullshit nightclub that Newtown really needs. Emily got us in on the door and the DJ - a fellow we had met earlier at the Bowery - played a bunch of retro rock, glam, electro and punk to a room full of sweaty twenty somethings (and us distinctly not anywhere near twenty-somethings).

Brisbane nightlife is nowhere as bad as I imagined it.