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BON AMI! Their electronic sound is so diverse you won’t know what to call them, so just kick back and enjoy Bon Chat Bon Rat. And now Sydney’s ambient and jiving electronic trio - well, that’s close as we can get - are back at The Brass Monkey this Saturday night. There will also be support from special guests Tantrums And Townhouses.
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BRIDEZILLA
THE 2010 JÄGERMEISTER INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS ARE ONLY A COUPLE OF SLEEPS AWAY SO BRYGET CHRISFIELD ENCOURAGES BRIDEZILLA’S SAXOPHONIST/ KEYBOARDIST MILLIE HALL AND CLOUD CONTROL’S DUMMER ULRICH LENFFER TO PONDER THEIR BAND’S ODDS.
BRIDEZILLA Nomination: Breakthrough Independent Artist Where were you when you found out you were nominated for the award and who was the first person you told about it? “At home. My manager sent me an email about it. I turned to my boyfriend, who was sitting next to me at the time, and told him.” How did you finance your nominated album and how long did it take to record? “We’re signed to the label, Inertia, who helped finance the record. We spent a few months in a friend’s lounge room rehearsing every day and writing songs. In April last year we stayed at Holiday [Sidewinder, vocals/ guitar]’s riverside house for ten days and recorded The First Dance.” How was the songwriting process for your album? “Usually Holiday would play us a song she had written on guitar or organ and then the rest of the band would add layers to it.” Have you familiarised yourself with your competition? “Yeah. We’re friends with a couple of our competitors.” What’s on the agenda for the rest of the year? “We’re hoping to get over to England at the end of the year and for the last few weeks we’ve been writing some new material – heaps R&B.”
CLOUD CONTROL Nominations: Best Independent Artist; Breakthrough Independent Artist; Best Independent Album – Bliss Release (Ivy League). Where were you when you found out you were nominated for the awards and who was the first person you told about it? “Sitting in a café with a muffin and a coffee. I think I stood up and yelled it to the heavens when I first read it, so probably the whole café were the first people to hear.” How did you finance your nominated album and how long did it take to record? “With sweat and tears and years of toil. Took roughly nine months, but we kept costs down by commandeering lounge rooms as our studio. We also paid our producer Liam [Judson] mainly in love, so it ended up being pretty cheap.”
The soulful ballads and energetic swamp rockin’ tunes from Louisiana’s Lil’ Band O’Gold are coming to our shores this week. On Saturday the legendary purveyors of the finest music a la Deep South Americana will be joining the lineup of The Great Southern Blues Festival, before heading to Newcastle for Sunday a set at Lizotte’s with special guests. If you can’t make it, or you seen it and you still want more, there will be Sydney headline shows to come next week.
LILITH AID This Monday head to The Enmore Theatre and celebrate three incredible female talents on one stage with A Taste of Lilith. This year features the musical brilliance of Lilith’s founder, Canada’s Sarah McLachlan, as well as our very own Kate Miller-Heidke and The Verses. For each ticket sold, A Taste of Lilith will donate $1 to the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation, so it’s not just a night of great music, but helps a great cause. Tickets are on sale now.
PING OR PONG Friday night at everyone’s favourite indie party, Purple Sneakers, treat yourself to a free game of ping pong. That’s right, the gang at Sneakers are bringing you free ping pong (or table tennis for the classicists) every Friday, amongst all the regular weekly schmoozing of cheap drinks and rocking tunes. Popping in to say hi will be indie darlings Jinja Safari, who will be performing a special DJ set for punters. It all kicks off at 7pm at the Gladstone Hotel.
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NAT COL AND THE KINGS
Problematic
Nathan Cavaleri, guitar
What’s the song about? I’ve had a lot of overseas friends tell me how blunt and bitter Australian women can be. I don’t think they’re generally to blame. Australian women have had to evolve an instinctive defence mechanism for the highly vain and arrogant nature of a typical Australian male… Like the guy in Problematic.
One or two years to write with multiple writing phases and three weeks to record and mix.
Is this track from a forthcoming release?
Was anything in particular inspiring you during the making?
Our debut album coming out in Autumn 2011! How long did it take to write/record?
Not long. Songs like this should only take the amount of time to write as the moment you’re trying to capture.
YOLANDA, BE COOL
Don’t expect a bootleg reggae version any time soon. If you come to our show you’ll see how much we love playing live and winning people over.
PRIMARY NEEDS Saturday night at Bizzo’s, futuristic space tourists Grafton Primary will be performing songs off their forthcoming new release as well as some old favourites. Get ready to dance, shuffle and shout the night away with their cosmic energy set to stun punters for one night only.
Though Col and I have recorded together before this is Nat Col And The Kings’ first release.
How long did it take to write/record?
The part where some guy will be listening and thinking, ‘Hmm… I like the way this guy rolls… Confident.’ Avoid this person.
FREE FIESTA
How many releases do you have now?
We’ve got two EPs, Kittens and Regicide. You can download them both for free from re-e.net.
What’s your favourite part of the song?
All this Labour Day long weekend, the iconic Darling Harbour will be hosting a free Fiesta with over 30 bands and 45 dance groups performing over the three days, the festival featuring acts such as Cecilia, Noel, Patrulla 81, JJ Son and many, many more.
Nat Col And The Kings – self-titled.
How many releases do you have now?
For the South Coast brethren, Nowra’s newest venue, The Tea Club, will be hosting a night of prog and alternative heavy sounds Friday night. Featuring Wollongong’s Sacred Truth with supports acts Lint and Tzar Bomber. If you like your music loud, don’t miss out.
Sydney’s brand new weekly club night, Velvet Underground will be showcasing the best in local live music every Thursday night. Kicking off this week will be rockers True Love Chaos, Yolanda & The Stolen Boys and Ming Kings. Doors open at 9pm with entry free.
What’s the title of your new EP and where did it come from?
Do you play it differently live?
Will you be launching it?
Yes! We’re playing the Excelsior Hotel in Surry Hills on Thursday, then World Bar on Friday with Convaire and Paper Moon.
Overall our inspiration comes from the messages we want to send out to people – both lyrically and musically. The only guide I had during the writing and production process was to keep everything real and organic. Real messages, real instruments, real emotions and consequently the production followed the same path. We would choose takes for performance, feel and emotion over perfection.
What’s your favourite song on it? It’s instinctual to gravitate towards the newlywritten songs over the older ones. Maybe it’s for that reason I choose Kicking And Screaming.
Will you do anything differently next time? It would be great if our budget allowed for a bit more studio time to experiment.
Will you be launching it? This Saturday at the Annandale with Electric Mary, LUST and Raise the Crazy.
ROADS LED THEM HERE Touring on the back of their latest and best record, Endless Roads, Perth hardcore outfit Miles Away are in town this week, playing The Wall Wednesday and Oasis Youth Centre Thursday. Can anyone else smell a classic of contemporary Australian hardcore?
RED RIDERS Simply Red are due at the Bimbadgen Estate this Saturday, their Sydney Opera House shows to take place during mid-October.
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Have you ever won anything in the past?
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“I think Al [Wright, guitar/vox] just recently won a couple of Starcraft matches, which he is pretty happy about.”
LCD Soundsystem - Home
Where will you put the trophy if you win?
And you all thought they were gone. What better way to welcome in LCD Soundsystem’s imminent arrival in the country for the Big Day Out festival than with the video for their track, Home. Tracking the journey of a aluminium foil robot through town as he meets all sort of characters – and no-one parties like block-head – it’s typically low-budget for the dance superstars. Clocks in at almost eight minutes as well.
“I will install it as the knocker for my front door. Either that or give it to my mum and she will install it on hers.” What do you have planned for us on the night and how would you like the crowd to describe your set afterwards? “A night of wonderment and magic. We hope people leave the show wondering if we are in fact musicians or magicians.” The Jägermeister Independent Music Awards take place on Friday 1 October at the Forum, Melbourne. • 72 • THE DRUM MEDIA 28 SEPTEMBER 2010
THE GHOST INSIDE
INSIDE INFORMATION Backing things up after support slots with Parkway Drive last week, The Ghost Inside will play their own headline spot at the Sandringham Hotel this Tuesday with support from Relentless and Hand Of Mercy.
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