Robbie Interviews Yelle
Interviews aren't always as simple as picking up the phone, dialling Spain and talking with a beautiful - and evidently not single - French pop star just after she has woken up. After five minutes of technology making me perspire from every one of my very Australian pores, I finally had the chance to talk with Julie Budet, otherwise known as Yelle.
Sight Beyond, Tom Hall
Tom Hall is a Brisbane based artist whose practice involves explorations into place, space and time. So you’re thinking, well that makes me an artist too right? I’m always looking around the place, running late, being very aware of my personal space on public transport. The difference between your awareness of your surroundings and Tom’s - is that he turns his into compositional installations and manages to tell a story through the use of sounds and images (and you were lost at figuring out how to turn your bus tickets into art).
You Look Nice Today (podcast)
Are you familiar with the simultaneously glorious and dismaying feeling that results in the sudden realisation that you are just never going to be as talented as someone you admire, but, goddamn it, you are going to love them all the same? A dissonance compounded by a distinct lack of social graces, attractiveness or general hygiene on the part of the admired figure? Woody Allen should be a pretty good point of reference.
Annandale's Eighth Birthday
In its current incarnation (as an institution of the Sydney live music scene) the Annandale has rocked up...er, that is clocked up eight years worth of blood, sweat and beers. During this time, the pub has become as much of an icon as some of the acts who have stomped, screamed and stumbled onto its stage.
Ducats, Talons
There's this guy called Jonny Nails (yes, his real name) who co-runs a great blog called Polaroids of Androids. POA had a party late last year above the Newtown Hotel. This amazing band, Talons played and blew our faces off with their awesomeness. We were so excited, we just wanted to draw them a picture.
Podcast
There’s a great podcast here of a talk by Carl Honoré who wrote 'In Praise of Slow’. Listening to it is bound to have even the most speed-addicted wanting to get in touch with their ‘inner tortoise’.
The talk was given as part of the TED (Technology Entertainment & Design) conference held annually in California.
Music Recommenders
’High Fidelity’ has nothing on Music Recommenders. Combining forty leading independent record stores from around the world it pools their collective knowledge to make sure your mix tapes always get you laid.
‘The Recommenders’ include Brett Grossman and Brian Smith from Reckless Records (Chicago), Tatsuya Yuki from Mona Records (Tokyo) and Sascha and Torsten from Hard Wax (Berlin) so from hip hop, indie rock, jazz and Asian pop you will never be without something wonderfully obscure to ask for at a record store.
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