So just to break-up my 100 greatest Aussie albums posts, here is three new videos I've been watching a lot. The first from The Drones' new DVD A Thousand Mistakes with Fiona Kitschin's Work For Me
Well, Adalita is supporting The Drones on their 2011 tour. Here is a great new video, Perfection from her debut self titled solo album. Which I think is pretty much my album of the year, so far.
Ben Salter has also released his debut solo album out now too. It is co-produced by Gareth Liddiard so this is kind-off like join the dots. Anyway, his album is called The Cat and this song is called The Coward.
So there you go, my three favorite videos at this moment in time so I hope you enjoy them, it's really just for me so I can find these things easy by looking here, ha.
+ The Drones tour dates for October 2011:
Friday 7 October — ANU Bar, Canberra
Saturday 8 October — Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle
Friday 14 October — Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Friday 21 October — The Bakery, Perth
Saturday 22 October — The Governor Hindmarsh, Adelaide
Friday 28 October – Hi-Fi Bar, Brisbane
Saturday 29 October – Metro, Sydney
All the tickets you can get at their new website.
Well, if you missed it and this was a repeat too, Gareth Liddiard and Adalita were on the TV show RockWiz last night. I found the whole thing on youtube to watch again and again and again and again if you don't have a TV, like myself or maybe you just live overseas, somewhere.
I hope you enjoyed that because I did, it's hilarious from beginning to the end and the songs are wicked too. If you don't know the songs are: Gaz does Oh My from The Drones' album Havilah, Adalita does Dirty Jeans from Magic Dirt's album What Are Rockstars Doing Today and the duet as the credits roll is a cover of an old Ed Kuepper and Chris Bailey classic track Messin' With The Kid by The Saints, unbelievable version eh?
Right, to start with Hooters are in China (I'm not making it up) with four locations around the country. The above photo is from The Drones myspace's photos with the quote under the pic as "The only person in China who would talk to us. Hooters, Shanghai." It's just a really, really funny photo to go with four of his most daunting and melancholic songs below. God knowns who took this photo but they toured China a few years back. Anyway this post is to be filed under my continuing The Drones and Gareth Liddiard database which is what I should have maybe called this blog.
Gareth Liddiard & Dan Luscombe with Jezebel @ Forum Theatre for the Stephen Walker Benefit on Monday 31 January, 2011.
Gareth Liddiard with I Don't Ever Want To Change @ St Kilda Festival Sunday 13 February, 2011.
Gareth Liddiard with Strange Tourist @ St Kilda Festival Sunday 13 February, 2011.
Gareth Liddiard with Shark Fin Blues @ St Kilda Festival Sunday 13 February, 2011.
Well, I have not posted anything for this month, I've started full-time job now so I've been a bit busy but I've got two other Gareth Liddiard related posts I'm currently writing. One is very short but the other is really long, too long, maybe. So hopefully I can publish them before the end of February but with only one day left I might not finish them off before or is it going to be for next month? I'll see what I can do in the next day but just more Gaz posts to come.
Well, after last week writing hopefully we'll see some video recording of this gig here is two songs from the wonderful Mess+Noise, already. "Blondin Makes An Omelette" and "Strange Tourist", fingers crossed the rest of the show is on the way too but even if not these two are totally wicked. It does look like a bit of an odd gig to play watching these videos but it's way better that someone recording him on their mobile phone. I'm really liking this Vimeo as well, so much better than youtube. Plus since last time he's announced another national tour also singer-songwriter Dan Kelly will be the special guest on this tour, if you haven't seen the dates I've included them at the bottom of this page. We do have to wait until March or April to see Gareth Liddiard so if you haven't seen him yet, get a ticket and go and see him and Dan together, it will be great.
The Tour Dates: Friday 18 March - Brisbane Hotel, Hobart Saturday 19 March - Mossvale Festival, Mossvale Wednesday 23 March - The Maram, Canberra Thursday 24 March - The Factory Theatre, Sydney Friday 25 March - Lizotte’s, Newcastle Saturday 26 March - The Zoo, Brisbane Sunday 27 March - The Clarendon Guesthouse, Katoomba Friday 1 April – Jive, Adelaide Saturday 2 April - The Bakery, Perth Thursday 7 and Friday 8 April - East Brunswick, Melbourne Saturday 9 April - The National Hotel, Geelong
Top photo by Daniel Boud again, one I didn't include in the last post but from the same set of-course.
OK, what would you program on rage? Because I know what I would. Well you get around 55 videos to pick and about every half a dozen you talk about the video/song so here goes…
Intro: "To sum up I’ve picked stuff I’ve seen on rage before and I would love to see them all again. I think it covers a lot of styles of music and hopefully very entertaining video clips. Well, I remember them being so. I think I’ve covered from childhood to right up to now 2010." (Keeping it very brief because I wouldn’t like to talk on TV very long so this is it.)
Playlist: 1. The Drones - Jezebel "How good are they? The greatest band from the past decade and Gareth Liddiard is the best songwriter currently working in the world of music." 2. The Drones - The Minotaur 3. Dirty Three - Everything's Fucked 4. Dirty Three & Cat Power - Great Waves 5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Breathless "He’s the greatest songwriter from the past couple of decades but this one is his last really great song and it’s a cool video too. I never think his songs match-up with the videos but here are the next few I think work the best." 6. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Love Letter 7. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Loverman 8. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Jack the Ripper 9. The Boys Next Door - Shivers 10. Laughing Clowns - Eternally Yours "Because they are an underrated band and should be played more. Ed Kuepper is one of the greatest songwriters too and kind-off forgotten but will be remembered now." 11. Laughing Clowns - Holy Joe 12. Ed Kuepper - The Way I Made You Feel 13. Augie March - The Moth Ball 14. Sarah Blasko - Planet New Year 15. The Paradise Motel - Bad Light 16. Magic Dirt - She Riff 17. The Scientists - Human Jukebox "Because they are another underrated band and should be played more too. Kim Salmon is one of the greatest songwriters too and kind-off forgotten but I’m going to remember him now." 18. Kim Salmon & the Surrealists - I Won't Tell 19. Beasts of Bourbon - Psycho 20. Darling Downs - Circa '65 21. Antenna- Come on Spring 22. The Triffids - Wide Open Road 23. Jeff Buckley - So Real "Because it's so strange." 24. Portishead - Glory Box 25. Bjork - Army of Me 26. Joy Division – Shadowplay 27. The White Stripes - I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself 28. Faith No More - Midlife Crisis 29. Johnny Cash - Hurt "Because it's so sad." 30. Antony & the Johnsons - Hope There's Someone 31. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting 32. Adam & the Ants - Antmusic 33. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth 34. Rihanna – Umbrella 35. Jay-Z - 99 Problems 36. Benny Benassi - Satisfaction "Because it's so hot." 37. Donna Summer - I Feel Love 38. Roots Manuva - One Witness (One Hope) 39. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Heaven Can Wait 40. dEUS - Theme From Turnpike 41. The Young Gods - Gasoline Man 42. Einstürzende Neubauten - Z.N.S. "Because it's so weird." 43. Sepultura - Slave New World 44. Refused - New Noise 45. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Dang 46. The Jesus Lizard - Puss 47. PJ Harvey - This Is Love 48. The Breeders - Cannonball 49. Tom Waits - Goin' Out West "Because it's so crazy." 50. Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed 51. Cat Power - Lived In Bars 52. Fiona Apple - Fast As You Can 53. Beth Orton - Stolen Car 54. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - I Gave You 55. Guns N' Roses – Estranged "Because it's so insane." Of-course I don't any featured videos myself so that's it.
The full playlist is on youtube or below here (but some clips seem to be missing in this embed version)
P.S. There is a really cool looking book out now which is written by Narelle Gee, who could have one of the coolest jobs on the planet.
Right, I have to do something else other than this 50 Nick Cave songs list, it's going to drive me mad (if I'm not already). So, what can I write now? Well, who's far better than him? The Drones that's who. No doubt they would have be the band/artist of the the last decade, the 2000's. The four unbelievably brilliant albums, if not totally perfect albums in a row: Here Come The Lies, Wait By The River..., Gala Mill, Havilah. With each album quite different but still the same The Drones but building upon the previous record. Also just releasing all the kind-of out-takes album: The Miller's Daughter, in the middle of all that is brilliant as well. No other band has had such a perfect run and under the noses of most people too. We will have to see what's next for the band. Next week Gareth Liddiard lead songwriter and singer is to release his debut solo album Strange Tourist, in the true sense of the word, just all by himself.
You can not possibly find another band who ripped up the rule book, then set it on fire, pissed and shat on it, kicked it into a bloody mess then just flicked it into the corner. I can not possibly praise them too much. If you don't know it yet they have already changed the Australian music landscape forever. Everyone will ask you in the future did you see The Drones live? And if you can say "Yes" well, you and I are the lucky ones. You can hopefully forget about horrible bands like The Living End, Wolfmother, Jet now. Even now Nick Cave is getting too popular for my liking which maybe is why he's getting a bit of a bashing here in my blogs but I'm not the only one with what Mick Harvey said. Now Liddiard joins in on this too. In a paragraph in the Aussie Rolling Stones magazine Liddiard say America is on it's way out, Aussies don't have to do that anymore and names an old Cave song but really he could have said Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Why does Cave name drop U.S.A. cities in the last lead Bad Seeds single and title track for that album, other than to sell some more records to them. It's false, it's just as bad as like Molly Meldrum on Countdown in the 70's and 80's. Looking for validation in America is a waste of time (unless maybe you are one them) but that old mentality of the U.S.A. is the best place in the world, which should be shot between the eyes with a double-barrel shot gun, who better to do that that Gareth Liddiard and his band The Drones? So it's beyond doubt or should have been long, long time ago for Australians to stop mythologizing America. Don't get me wrong now, The Drones don't really have to get as stupidity big as the above bands or artists because they're already just as or more important that any of them in so many other ways and done it all their own way too.
So anyway this blog is called video tape because I'm going to link a youtube playlist I put together at the end of this blog based on a video tape (did I need to say that?) I've still got a couple of boxs in the back room which I recorded a television show called rage but too much about the past. I'm trying to catch up with the twenty-first century, I've got a mobile phone lately, started a blog here and joined facebook the other day. The last time I watched rage until the very end and started watching at the beginning and enjoyed it was a long time ago by the looks of it. It was of course when The Drones were on. Anyway here's what video clips they picked and played.
The Drones guest program rage on Saturday 21st February, 2009: Saturday morning guest programming, from 10:00 till 11:00: 10:00am THE DRONES - Shark Fin Blues LOW - Breaker TRICKY - Money Greedy MILES DAVIS - Decoy NINA SIMONE - Revolution CAT POWER - Cross Bones Style BOWERBIRDS - Ivy Climbing BOB DYLAN - Not Dark Yet 10:30am BOB DYLAN - Love Sick AUGIE MARCH - The Cold Acre TOM WAITS - Hold On THE GIN CLUB - You Don't See THE DRONES - I Don't Ever Want To Change (Live) Saturday night guest programming starts 23:20: 23:23pm N.W.A. - 100 Miles & Runnin' WU-TANG CLAN - Can It All Be So Simple? 23:30pm BUSTA RHYMES - Woo-Hah!! (Got You All In Check) MISSY ELLIOTT - Pass That Dutch CLARE MOORE - The Town Bike Song ALAN VEGA - Wipeout Beat IGGY & THE STOOGES - Loose PATTI SMITH - Because The Night LAUGHING CLOWNS - Holy Joe 12:00am THESE IMMORTAL SOULS - Marry Me STICKMEN - Without A Clue THE JESUS LIZARD - Puss DARLING DOWNS - Circa '65 KIM SALMON & THE SURREALISTS - I Fell LOU REED I Love Women GOD - My Pal 12:30am JOEL SILBERSHER - Flappin' On A Hook JOEL SILBERSHER - Through The Manoeuvres TEX PERKINS & HIS LADYBOYZ - I'm Not In Love DIRTY THREE - Hope PALACE BROTHERS - Ohio River Boat Song NEIL YOUNG - Harvest Moon NEIL YOUNG - Change Your Mind 1:00am DAN KELLY - Drunk On Election Night PAUL KELLY - If I Could Start Today Again BILLY BOB THORNTON - Angelina THIRTY ODD FOOT OF GRUNTS - Memorial Day BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Atlantic City THE MUPPETS - Ma-Na Ma-Na TEAM AMERICA - America, F**k Yeah! DRAGONFORCE Through - The Fire And Flames 1:30am THE MELVINS - Honeybucket EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Armenia THE DOORS - The End SPARKLEHORSE - St. Mary's MERZBOW - Minus Zero 2:00am PINK FLOYD - Astronomy Domine CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - Ice Cream For Crow SPENCER JONES - Execution Day FEATURED VIDEOS THE DRONES - River Of Tears THE DRONES - Shark Fin Blues THE DRONES - Locust (Live) 2:30am THE DRONES - I'm Here Now (Live) THE DRONES - The Miller's Daughter (Live) THE DRONES - Jezebel THE DRONES - I Don't Ever Want To Change (Live) 3:00am THE DRONES - I Looked Down The Line And I Wondered (Live) THE DRONES - Motherless Children (Live) THE DRONES - From Black To Communist (Live) THE DRONES - The Minotaur THE DRONES - Oh My (triple j tv) 3:30am THE DRONES - Suicide Is Painless(triple j tv)
Here's all the clips I found on youtube (full playlist here) and I've made into a this thing:
