Event Reviews
The Drones
Meredith Music Festival, Meredith, Dec 9 06
Monday, Dec 11|by Ben Gook
I guess you've heard about ev’ry kind of blues/But when the dust gets high, you can’t even see the sky... So sang Woody Guthrie in ‘Dust Bowl Blues,’ channelling the spirit of Meredith 2006 sixty-five years before it even happened. As The Drones took to the familiar Meredith stage – returning once again and to ever-increasing adulation – the skies were thick with smoke haze an…
Snowman
Meredith Music Festival, , Dec 9 06
Monday, Dec 11|by Darren Levin
Meredith Saturday was a scorcher. A dry, thick, pervasive heat that – like the bush fires raging in rural Victoria – never looked like letting up. The centigrade was pushing mid-30, while a haze hovered in the distance like Californian smog. Occupying the 11am slot was Snowman who hail from sunny Perth. The irony wasn’t lost on anyone – least of all the guy behind me in a Bros …
The Mint Chicks
The Annandale, Sydney, Dec 8 06
Monday, Dec 11|by Richard MacFarlane
I’m not sure just how notorious The Mint Chicks actually are here. There’s that infamous Melbourne show of last year, when lead singer Kody got frustrated at the lack of dancing and ended up abusing the crowd fairly badly. That didn’t go down to well, but in Sydney at the Annandale last week, the New Zealand spaz rockers got people dancing and then some. A wide range of materia…
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