Category: GIG
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Friday Fugazi: Instrument
Click or not: Friday Fugazi: InstrumentIf you are sitting around on a Friday night trying to find something to watch and end up with just more cat videos, then plug into this and get jolted out of your digitally induced stupor. Analogue and scratchy, loud, kinetic, energetic. Real instruments, of music and mind. …
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Ty Tuesdays: Freedom Band Live @ The Yard, Raglan
Click or not: Ty Tuesdays: Freedom Band Live @ The Yard, RaglanFreedom. It’s good for me, but not for you. That’s been the attitude of the inhabitants of this country (and the world) for the last, oh, three or so years, coincidentally. “You can have your freedom, but only if you do as you’re told.” The right to have autonomy over ourselves is now controlled by… …
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Ty Tuesdays: Feel
Click or not: Ty Tuesdays: FeelTy weaves his magic into Wand for a stomping rendition of Feel. King Tuff lurks in awe in the background and the Woods Stage throng is held captive by Cory and Ty’s riff-raffery and overdriven fret fuckery. To really feel this, put on the headphones and chew on the bass. …
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My Baby Plays Meow
Click or not: My Baby Plays MeowSeeing My Baby might still be my all time favourite stumble-upon discovery. …
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Thee Oh Sees (Were) Freakin Mental
Click or not: Thee Oh Sees (Were) Freakin MentalIf the strongest line-up of Thee Oh Sees in full cry at the Pitchfork Festival 2012 doesn’t energise you then you may well be dead. And if you ever wondered where the kid from Deliverance ended up… …
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The Day Peace, Love And The Music Died
Click or not: The Day Peace, Love And The Music DiedSetting out to watch Gimme Shelter, you don’t expect to experience anything more than a concert film of a band at their peak, thriving in a time of comparative innocence. Of course there was a lot of social upheaval happening at the turn of the 60s; Vietnam, civil rights and the misguided hippy culture which… …
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Friday Fuzz: Minimal Maximal
Click or not: Friday Fuzz: Minimal MaximalFuzz prove once again that all you need to make a huge wall of sound is three guys, a minimal drum kit, a couple of overdrive pedals, big hair, face paint, and a dress. …
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Worshipping In The Church Of Psychobilly
Click or not: Worshipping In The Church Of PsychobillyReverend Horton Heat, 6 October 2016, Bodega, Wellington It was damn cold outside but the Heat was turned up and there was fun to be had. The majority of the crowd weren’t obviously hardcore rockabilly fans––though there was at least one set of braces, a couple of coifs and the occasional western shirt dotted through the crowd––but… …