• Bands I reviewed at BDO 2011

    Jan 25 2011, 1h51 por MaxFactor81

    Sun 23 Jan – Big Day Out 2011

    From Rave's collective review:

    Over at the under-attended Hot Produce tent, West End funsters Laneous & The Family Yah (farewelling UK-bound Georgia Potter) rock out at nosebleed volume – presumably trying to drown out Andrew W.K.’s hard-partying at the neighbouring Green stage. With Laneous cheerily jumping around, I Am Dog is an ever-frenetic finish.

    The Hot Produce stage begins to fill up as US garage-rock classicists The Greenhornes signal action with Saying Goodbye. Sporting trademark specs and a cool vintage belt, bassist/Jack White associate Jack Lawrence anchors Craig Fox’s choppy riffs and searing fuzz breaks as drummer Patrick Keeler hammers out ‘60s-redolent fills.

    As the sun sets, there's muscle, veins, loose skin, sweat and a one-of-a-kind presence – that’s Iggy Pop – wriggling upon the main Blue stage, back in Australia with the seminal Stooges five years after he first brought them to BDO. …
  • Big Day Out 2011 @ Gold Coast Parklands

    Jan 24 2011, 0h24 por NiteShok

    Sun 23 Jan – Big Day Out 2011

    For the full review and photos, click here to visit The Vine. It's better reading it there than here. Promise.

    It’s with no small amount of disappointment that the time we should have spent watching Gold Coast indie punk duo Bleeding Knees Club open the Boiler Room, and New Zealand electro-rock act The Naked and Famous open the Converse Essential Stage, is instead spent sitting on a bus. We’re just one vehicle amongst thousands caught in a tedious traffic jam caused by a two-car accident somewhere between Brisbane and the Gold Coast Parklands; call it a downside of Queensland’s reliance upon two- and three-lane thoroughfares between major cities. (I do get to hear the latter band’s final chorus in ‘Young Blood’ ring out from a distance, though, for what it’s worth.)

    Brisbane five-piece Blonde On Blonde are playing fairly by-the-numbers blues-rock on the Hot Produce stage when we do arrive at noon, but they’re interesting enough to avoid sounding too formulaic. …