New Live Music: The Mercy Beat, Sparrows, Hundred Bad Guys with Swords, Cat Rapes Bat

24TH SEPTEMBER 2010 – THE ZOO – FORTITUDE VALLEY, BRISBANE The Mercy Beat recently debuted their album How to Shampoo a Yak to huge success and rave reviews and are back again give us another taste of their notoriously energetic- and occasionally bloody- live shows.  Labelled “one of the city’s most enduring live...

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New Music: You Am I

YOU AM I TAKE COMPLETE CONTROL YOU AM I clear a new path that see’s them turn The Clash’s dream of Complete Control into a reality.  Taking control of it’s destiny, with a new record in hand YOU AM I have rethought how it releases records in a music industry that is endlessly evolving. With a careers worth of...

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The Emperor’s New Clothes, a Cinematic Affair: The Cat Empire play the Tivoli

Words: Sophie Hart Saturday, August 28 I have to admit I walked into this review process a sceptic. I haven’t had much exposure to The Cat Empire outside what I hear on the radio, and may have found the breakout hit Hello mildly irritating after over zealous DJ’s declared it was the only song I needed to hear for most of...

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Ben Kweller, the Texan charmer.

Words: Leah Holdsworth Ben Kweller teaches me what ‘go fly a kite!’ actually means, and tells me why Australia reminds him of his home state, Texas. So, where are you at the moment? Are you on tour? I just got home actually. I did a little two week tour of the East Coast here in the States. I went to New York, and...

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New Music: Laneous and the Family Yah

One of Brisbane’s most favourite outfits is back with another release, just as fun and exciting (if not more so!) as the last. Laneous and the Family Yah have spent the last 18 months making sound waves sound so very different and light-hearted all over Australia, through both countless live performances and radio airplay. Their...

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