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Sandi Thom

November 30th 2006 02:38
Yesterday I mentioned Live Aid, and a singer who very much wishes to be back in that era, and during the years when Woodstock wasn't commercialised is Sandi Thom. Her album, Smile, it Confuses People is full of her desire to have lived back during the Hippie or Punk days.

I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
In '77 and '69, revolution was in the air
I was born too late to a world that doesn't care.

She makes an interesting point, the Hippies and Punks rebelled against authority in totally different ways, and yet, as she points out, does it really matter which of these you support?? the real enemy is the authoritarian societies.


I dunno, maybe you think it does.

Here's the track listing
and you can go here to listen to samples of the album.

Give it a chance, When I first heard of it I assumed it would be crap, but the lyrics are good, and the music, whilst certainly not Punk, has an interesting combination of the beauty of hippie music and the rythym of Soul music.

Peace
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Live Aid

November 29th 2006 02:19
Has anybody here realised just how damn good Live Aid was??

The lineup included Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, U2, The WHo, Dire Straits, Black Sabbath, Style Council, Crosby Stills and Nash, Simple Minds, Judas Priest and about a billion more


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Potatobake 4

November 29th 2006 02:02
This is just for us in the Blue Mountains (west of Sydney) or anyone else who can get to Springwood Civic Centre on Friday the 1st of December.

The internationally reknowned music festival Potatobake, from which homebake took its name, is on from 6 pm till 11 for an entry fee of $7 at the door, $5 for prebooked tickets


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I'm Back

November 20th 2006 22:55
That's right, I'm back from schoolies, full of booze and a renewed passion for Led Zeppellin, and yet also filled with a bitter dissapointment, for one of the guys there took up his LP's and a record player, and I thought that I would finally get a chance to listen to Mike Oldfield's album 'Tubular Bells'. For years I have heard how ridiculously good this album is, and yet I have never seen it on cd, and I haven't seen a working record player in quite some time.

Well, it was not to be, the guy's record player refused to go louder then a whisper, lousy old technology.

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SCHOOLIES!!!

November 10th 2006 09:14
That's right, I'm off to schoolies. (not the Gold Coast schoolies, because that has become way too strictly controlled lately, and I'd prefer a more secluded schoolies anyway.

I finished my exams last wednesday, and now I am off to drink for a week solid, so I won't be making any posts for the week. Except - I'll write one now and set it to post itself sometime round wednesday.

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Thin Lizzy

November 4th 2006 09:22
An uncle of mine introduced me to this Irish hard rock band a little while ago, and I've gotta say I'm pretty impressed with his taste.

Their music has influences of folk music, and yet is also largely heavy rock verging on metal at times. I dunno, sorta think Led Zeppellin, though admittedly not quite as good. Hey, why haven't I mentioned Led Zeppellin before in this blog??

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