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I always tell myself the Big Day Out will be good and am disappointed by an abundance of festival jerks, but Laneway actually was good! Great, even. Read the rest of this entry →

I was deciding on my vote for the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2009, and after watching the clip for Drumming Song I thought a portrait sketch of Florence Welch would aptly tie in with a Hottest 100 blog post. After all, she is quite the hot sauce, with flame red locks to match.

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Awesome.

What a great night.

Ofcourse it was partially attributed to my company but the bands played outstanding sets. Highly entertaining.

Goodnight Tiger rapidly drew in the wandering crowd with Monsters. “What is this alluring gypsy music?” one girl remarked. Not really, but someone could well have said that.

Up next was Timothy Nelson and the Infidels. The man is so passionate and the band gets totally immersed in their performance. Truly inspirational to watch, I just wish they had Let Her Go on their myspace. In any case, go see them live – you can witness their energy first hand! And hear my favourite song.

Headliner Whitley rocked out with an interesting set including a partial cover of Abba’s Dancing Queen and a tribute to New Order. Furthermore, he’s a total jerk, and it’s very entertaining. If he gets any grief from the crowd they’re in for abuse. I won’t quote specifics but in one instance someone came out with a mum joke and got completely shut down.

I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end, but I had a quick lol with him about being a jerk after the gig and he seemed friendly enough – albeit a bit drunk.

Anyway, Goodnight Tiger and Tim Nelson are playing again today (Saturday) at X-Wray cafe in Freo from 2:40pm. If you’re available head on down.

Spent the afternoon tidying up the typography I’d proposed originally for Goodnight Tiger, as this was the girls’ favourite option. The type needed to be vectorised and have all the curves cleaned up.

Pez and Jill have taken very warmly to it. Great success!

I wasn’t completely satisfied with the last logo I designed for the Goodnight Tiger girls so I thought I’d try another approach. This one’s more elegant. The girls dress well for gigs and present themselves reasonably* professionally – I feel it’s also a bit more mysterious, which suits a lot of the songs.

Their music is very pretty, and while they’re fun and jokey I wanted to explore this avenue.

I’m still going to play around with the tail of the capital G, but it’s almost finished.

*When they don’t catch a glimpse of Bobbi or Sally getting their wild groove on and need to recompose themselves.

I thought I’d do a musically inspired piece this eve.

I listened to Sia’s Breathe Me about 5 times while blocking in shapes, then refined it a bit.

Massive props to Jim (and in turn, Minh) for passing on this gem! Hilarious.

Muse bandmembers switched roles when told they had to lip sync for an Italian TV show. Specific details here.

I love The Preytells. They kicked off their national tour and album launch last night at the Rosemount and played a great set to an enthused crowd.

They were a definite standout when I first saw them play back in 06, and anyone reading this over east: go see them! They’re  great live and are playing throughout the next few weeks before returning to Perth for another show at the Rosie on 9th October…

Speaking of October 9… I’ve got some art in Clothespeg Volume 3 opening that night at Slaughterblouse, 451 Beaufort St, 7-10pm. Slaughterblouse is in close proximity to the Rosemount, so come and check out both events!

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A long read, but I found it quite interesting. I wonder how much of a publicity stunt it is from Corgan’s point of view, although I don’t doubt he means it when he says Bryne will push him to be a better musician. Read the rest of this entry →

Muse, The Resistance – I like.