Following the announcement that their first show at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne has sold out, UK post-punk legends The Sisters Of Mercy announce a second headline show at the Corner Hotel on Thursday March 1.

The band is also touring around the country as a part of the Soundwave Festival in February and March.

“Be advised that the Sisters are going on tour again. We will behave very badly. We will wear some very loud shirts. We will wear some very wrong trousers. We will perform some very legendary rock music. It’s what we do.” (Sisters Of Mercy)

Despite numerous line-up changes, disputes with their record company that saw the band cease recording in 1990, legal battles and internal dissent, The Sisters Of Mercy have remained at the forefront of the underground scene since their formation in Leeds over thirty years ago.

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This Australia Day, the green and gold turns black and blue as Australia’s Most Wanted comedian Chopper headbutts his way back to Brisbane for a long weekend of comedy. Australia Day – the day we celebrate all things Australian, by calling people UnAustralian for doing UnAustralian things; like playing soccer, not laughing when you read ‘Phuket’ or chucking a ‘sickie’ on a public holiday.

And so, we ask – what is more Aussie than spending Australia Day with Chopper? Absolutely bloody nothing. It’s more Aussie than a meat pie covered in mateship and skin cancer……More Aussie than waiting for your compo cheque to clear at the beach…More Aussie than Don Bradman riding Pharlap up the hills of Gallipoli on Grand Final Day…

Heath Franklin’s Chopper is one of Australia’s most loved comedy characters and highest selling live comedy acts. First seen on Network 10’s The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, as Chopper, Heath Franklin has gone on to sell over 180,000 tickets in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. He has released two highly successful live Chopper DVDs, released the board game ‘Chopoly’ and been nominated for a Logie and ARIA.
Continue reading Chopper’s Big F**ken Australia Day Weekend Special →

Photographer: Robert Pugsley

Photographer: Robert Pugsley
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Photographer: Stuart Blythe

Photographer: Stuart Blythe
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Photographer: Naomi Rahim

Photographer: Naomi Rahim
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Kat Davidson is a comedian. She would like you to think she’s funny, insightful and sharp, but deep down she’s untidy.

Untidy takes you inside the mind of one of Brisbane’s finest comedians. Kat doesn’t see the world in black and white, she sees it in degrees of untidiness. It’s in the clutter and mess of life where she finds the funny.

Kat has been a goth and a bondage mistress, an executive, a wife and an ABC radio presenter. She has done all of this while appearing to be control of her destiny. Deep down, Kat is an untidy human being. Then again, aren’t we all?
Continue reading KAT DAVIDSON – “UNTIDY” – BRISBANE COMEDY FESTIVAL 2012 →

Review by Lana Hall
David Lynch makes movies. Sometimes unintelligible, often disturbing and always with some scenes that, although on the surface seem innocuous, are downright creepy in feel. Apparently this particular effect is created by employing a specific low droning sound, a kind of ‘fear note’. The sound, when paired with an innocent looking setting, has the effect of convincing you something sinister is going on, even though appearances are above board. Given his skill in utilising this trick in his movies, it’s safe to assume that Mr Lynch knows a bit about how music evokes emotions, especially once you realise that he has collaborated on the soundtracks for several of his movies.

Crazy Clown Time is Lynch’s first full length, solo offering. The instrument playing and vocals (helped along by extensive use of a vocoder) are entirely his own, with the exception of the first track, ‘Pinky’s Dream’, which features Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) whispering and yelping her way through the song. By Lynch’s own admission, the album was born from a series of home-based jams and experiments, and this is how it presents. Crazy Clown Time is an atmospheric, hypnagogic waltz through the outpourings of Lynch’s mind, the best of which are cut together and collected on this album.

Early evidence that this is Lynch’s work comes from ‘Good Day Today’, a tracks whose tenebrous tones sit juxtaposed with a seemingly innocent, wailing lyrical desire that ‘I want to have a good day today…’ just before what sounds like gunfire is added into the mix.

Best tracks were ‘So Glad,’ ‘Noah’s Ark’ and ‘These are my friends’. These songs stand out because they showcase a new side of the rare talent that Lynch brings to music. These tracks reveal his ability to invoke in the mind of the listener a particular scene, an emotion, a moment in time, without needing to resort to narrative lyrics in order to do so. It’s one thing to hear a song from a soundtrack and recall the scene that accompanied it in a movie; it’s another thing altogether to be able to conjure a specific scene in a listener’s mind simply through tones. But at its best, this is what Crazy Clown Time is capable of. It’s different, sometimes amusing and it leaves you wanting to know more about his ambience-invoking superpowers.

Review by Lana Hall

David Lynch official site.

Flannel-wearing alt-country Northwestern rockers Blitzen Trapper are returning to the Australia. Having announced dates on East Coast Bluesfest the band will also be appearing at West Coast Blues n Roots Festival and headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne.

The Portland, Oregon outfit released their third Sub Pop album American Goldwing in September through Inertia. The album was written and recorded in a span of six months, before touring globally, playing at iconic festivals such as Lollapalooza and Newport Folk Festival. According to vocalist Eric Earley, it was during this time the band realised this new album was extraordinary, referring to it as “the real record”.
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Photographer: Robert Pugsley

Photographer: Robert Pugsley
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Photographer: Chris Dornan Photography

Photographer: Chris Dornan Photography
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DEVIN TOWNSEND; one of the most admired and lauded figures in the metal world will be bringing his astonishingly deep and varied catalogue of mind-blowing music to Sidewaves in Sydney and Melbourne.

Devin Townsend has amazed, beguiled and occasionally baffled all comers in numerous incarnations spanning the extreme noise metal of Strapping Young Lad to the intricate melodies of Ocean Machine; Devin has had his hand in almost every genre of music, from industrial metal to progressive rock to ambient sounds. All of these projects had one thing in common: GENIUS.

In his incarnation as DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, ‘Hevy Devy’ makes his most grandiose musical statement with an extravagant conceptual quadrilogy showcasing his talents and diversity as a songwriter. From the extreme metal to his more mellow work. ‘Ghost’, the final chapter of the quadrilogy is among the most celebrated creations of his career, a blissfully laid back opus. “Townsend has delivered on a level not previously imagined” – Metalinjection.net
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