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Casey Neill & Norway Rats: Practising Resurection

photo: (c) 2008 Inger Klekacz Casey Neill sings for wastrels, roustabouts, wharf rats & Bowery bums ….hell, even for CEOs of multinational corporations! There are boot stompin’ rockers, whiskey soaked ballads, songs mined from the sediment of Whitman, Woody, Shane & ...

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Tribute Night At Dante’s

Here's the 1st of a series of "Gig-Bites", featuring a taste of a recent or past gig deserving of being heard beyond the venue walls. And as a way to shine a light on bands who rock those walls mightily. REASON ...

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Died Pretty: Diamonds That You Hurled

The band, Died Pretty, walks out on stage for the first time in years, and Ron Peno softly announces: “Welcome To Doughboy Hollow”, thus beginning a full live recreation of that landmark indie album that broke thru the Oz charts ...

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Ed Kuepper: Bloody Miracle At The Enmore

Hard to believe that this landmark album started out as a planned EP release only, because the whole of it seamless & necessary …even harder to believe that it was recently performed live as part of the “Don’t Look Back” ...

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The Year of the Triffids

Wary of high expectations, the Sydney Festival 4 night event was billed as a “rehearsal”, but there was heaps of fan anticipation when the original members of The Triffids, and a host of friends, took the stage to celebrate the ...

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Television: Call Mr. Lloyd

It was 7 years ago that I first heard Tom Verlaine say: "This here's a newie....goes like this" And finally a new Television album is nearing completion, albeit without Richard Lloyd, who left to persue The Radiant Monkey and his own musical vision. So ...

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Fernando: Every Saturday Night

“We’ll be playing here every Saturday night from now on “ jokes Fernando: last week's gig at the “World Famous” Kenton Club reminds him of all the hole-in-the-wall bars he used to play set after set early on in his ...