EXEGESIS

BUNBURY’S proximity to Perth makes the town an ideal location for touring local and international bands to play mid-week shows, usually before they play at Perth venues like the Rosemount or Amplifier. It is the ideal warm-up location for mainstream bands like Thirsty Merc to acts as obscure as Richard In Your Mind or Loose Unit. While there are two local papers covering the Bunbury music scene, there is no online presence dedicated to covering the strongest WA music scene outside the metropolitan area. Through my central node, the Blogspot blog South West Music, I aimed to fill that gap with band interviews, live music reviews and up-to-date tour announcements. In essence, I will be fulfilling the role of a citizen music journalist in a hyper-local format, targeting a very specific audience.

The initial choices in making my web presence creation were obviously which theme to tackle, and then finding nodes to fit this theme. The decision to focus on online music journalism was an easy one. I have been writing about music in one form or another for ten years, and the Bunbury music scene is by far the strongest music scene outside of the metropolitan area and would therefore offer a wide scope of interviews, tour announcement and live reviews.

The decision to use Blogspot as my central node was based on the experiences several friends have had with the website and Rebecca Blood’s comments relating to Blogger. I spoke to three bloggers I know – Ian Lenton, who blogs at http://australianspeculation.blogspot.com, Matt Cowgill, who blogs at www.palace-foods.com, and Steph Edwardes, who blogs at http://skittlebraus.blogspot.com and they all recommended Blogspot for its ease of use. Rebecca Blood, in a post from Rebecca’s Pocket on September 7, 2000, said that Blogger “…places not restrictions on the form of content being posted. Its web interface, accessible from any browser, consists of an empty form box in which the blogger can type…anything.” (Blood, 2000).

For the template, I chose the Blogger-created Minima Dark after trailing several other layouts. I found Minima Dark easy to read with a dark background and white text, the headline box seemed to ‘pop out’ more than any other template. I also chose to add a photo to the top of the blog, with the image being of Bunbury music fans at the recent Groovin’ The Moo festival – used with the permission of the photographer, David Bailey. Using the Blogspot gadgets, I also included a links section to a range of Western Australian, Australian and International music journalism websites, as well as a link to the booking agent for the Prince of Wales Hotel and one of the local papers. Of course I also included an RSS link that will allow people to easily receive updates on the website directly to their desktop.

I chose to keep the ‘about’ section of my central node as brief as possible. Two of my favourite blogs – www.palace-foods.com and www.beaufortstreetblog.blogspot.com have extremely brief about sections. I also felt that the information presented in the content of the blog, through tour updates and interviews, was fairly self explanatory.

While the theme of my central node was that of a citizen music journalist, it needed to be able to expose people to bands coming to Bunbury that they may not have seen before. This was the main reason I chose Youtube as my first contributing node. While I do not have the ability to upload videos, the ability to ‘favourite’ Youtube music videos of bands coming to Bunbury allowed me to have a channel dedicated to showcasing bands that would be appearing in Bunbury soon, therefore fitting in with the overall theme of my web presence assignment. My second node, Flickr, allows me to post photos of bands playing in Bunbury and it also allows me to post these photos directly to my central node, reinforcing the central premise of my web presence creation and creating a network. My final node, Twitter, allows me to post short updates, either notifying followers of a new tour announcement or an update on my central node. All nodes contain a link back to the central node, further reinforcing the main theme of my web presence creation.

In the greater context of the web communications 101 unit, South West Music fits into the realm of citizen journalism. In particular, it specifically fits in with the notion of hyperlocal citizen journalism discussed in the 2004 Washington Post article "On Local Sites, Everyone's A Journalist" by Leslie Walker. South West Music deals specifically with Bunbury music, through interviewing bands playing in Bunbury, announcing tours that will come to the town, displaying photos of bands playing in Bunbury and review albums of bands that have, or are highly likely to, play in Bunbury. I have in essence turned myself from a creator of media - living in Bunbury and being an avid music fan, I would consume any media relating to the live music scene in Bunbury - to a producer of media.

My blogs and my three external nodes allow me to utilise the speed referenced by Jill Walker Rettberg on Page 66 of Blogging, where she states “One of the major advantages of citizen media is speed. Major Events are reported as rapidly by the people who experience them as by mainstream media.” (Rettberg, 2008).

In conclusion my web presence creation, by utilising Blogspot as my central node and twitter, youtube and flickr as my three external nodes allows me to act as a citizen journalist, filling a much-needed gap in the market that exists in Bunbury live music scene. By establishing a consistent theme across the four sites, I have established my network of Web 2.0 sites as a one stop shop, if you will, for information on the Bunbury Live Music Scene.



References

http://skittlebraus.blogspot.com

http://australianspeculation.blogspot.com

http://palace-foods.com

Blood, Rebecca. “Weblogs: A History And Perspective”, Rebecca’s Pocket. 07 September 2000. http://rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html

Walker, Leslie. “On Local Sites, Everyone’s A Journalist”, The Washington Post. 09 December 2004, Page EO1

Cloud Control

Cloud Control
Originally uploaded by South West Music

Pics of Cloud Control (pictured), Richard In Your Mind and Split Seconds now up on Flickr.

Downtime

As of Monday, this website is going to see about two weeks downtime while it gets marked, so you'll have to amuse yourselves for a while. It will be back once marked though, so don't cry yourself to sleep just yet.

Dan Kelly Interview

Dan Kelly: Flaming tornadoes not pictured

THE FORCES of cool may shout him down, but Dan Kelly has some gold from ye olde brain town. The singer songwriter's new single, Bindi Irwin Apocalypse Jam, has attracted attention largely due to the
first two words in the title, but the epic underwater jam isn't a condemnation, it's more of a compliment. After all, who better to have as an underwater guide than Australia's premiere khaki-clad eco-warrior? While Kelly can understand the fuss the title might bring, he's not buying into the Bindi Irwin backlash.
"I don't know that she's heard it, I think it would depend on how up with pop culture she is, maybe if I was more popular she might have heard it,'' he said.
"I'd like to think the song is pretty kind to her. I certainly didn't plan it like this, because the song was recorded a year ago, mixed six months ago and we decided to release it three months
ago, and between then and now you've had all these people lashing out at her, and I'm definitely not trying to do that.''
"I mean if you're going to be a child star I think, y'know trying to save animals is really an ok thing, I find it hard to get angry at that. The money wouldn't hurt either."
The song, inspired by the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix's 1983...(A Merman I Shall Turn To Be), chronicles Kelly's retreat underwater, with Bindi and Terri Irwin acting as guides - along with Ringo Starr and Hendrix. It's a celebration that ends on a down note, with Kelly forced back onto the burnt earth by Irwin's fashion sense.
"That's really the only thing I had a go at her about, because wearing Khaki all the time would be pretty grating. I see the song like the start of a lot of bands, you start out playing and it's fan
tastic, and by the end of it you're saying to yourself that if one of the other band members wears that brown leather jacket one more time you're going to throw yourself into flaming tornado.''
If you hadn't already guessed, Kelly is as much a storyteller as a
songwriter and while his free solo show at the Prince of Wales Hotel on Wednesday won't be as loud as his band shows - "funnily enough I couldn't get the entire band to take the week off work" -it will be memorable for all the right reasons.
"Solo shows for me are about the stories behind the songs as much as they are about the songs. I'll get people to sing along and they're usually pretty fun. I've got some songs about WA, one is the first track on the new album - and I'm looking forward to actually playing them in WA. Hopefully you'll ask your friends to come so I'm not playing to a big empty room.''

Bindi Irwin Apocalypse Jam

I'm interviewing Dan Kelly in half an hour, and I think it's appropriate to post the lyrics to Bindi Irwin Apocalypse Jam to give you an insight into the kind of character I'm dealing with. Needless to say, I have high hopes for this interview.

THE FORCES OF COOL MAY SHOUT ME DOWN
BUT HERE IS SOME GOLD FROM YE OLDE BRAIN TOWN
I WAS BUSTING SOME LAPS ACROSS THE POND
BENDING MY THOUGHTS TO A WORLD GONE WRONG
THINKING i WILL RETIRE TO BE UNDER THE SEA
JUST RINGO AND TERRI
BINDI AND ME
AND JIMI’S THERE TOO
LAYING IT DOWN
BIG BUBBLES OF SOUND
SO WE ALL DON’T DROWN!

SINGING OO WEE OO WEE
BINDI AND ME BINDI AND ME
OO WEE OO WEE
APOCALYPSE JAM UNDER THE SEA

I’M NOT LOOKING FOR LOVE, JUST COMPANY
AND SHE CAN EXPLAIN THE WORLD TO ME
FROM THE LITTORAL ZONES TO THE DOCK OF THE BAY
WE CAN AVOID THE WOES OF THE DAY
I DO DESIRE TO BE UNDER THE SEA
RINGO AND TERRY, BINDI AND ME
I’M GONNA LET IT RING OUT
ON MY CORAL KAZOO
IT’S AN UNDERSEA JAM
WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?

OO WEE OO WEE
BINDI AND ME BINDI AND ME
OO WEE OO WEE
APOCALYPSE JAM UNDER THE SEA

IT’S NOT APPROPRIATE TO SHARE OUR BEDS
ALTHOUGH HUMANKIND’S HANGIN BY A THREAD
I WILL HANG WITH THE MERMAIDS INSTEAD
AND TOGETHER WE WILL RIDE OUT THE CRASH
UNDER THE COVER OF THE EASTERN TRASH
DANCING ALL NIGHT BY THE COAST OF MAURITIOUS
UNDER THE LIGHTS OF THE DEEP SEA FISHES

(UNDERWATER GUITAR SOLO)

DIARY ENTRY 603
ANOTHER DULL DAY IN OUR CORAL SANCTUARY
RINGO’S MESSED UP ON JELLYFISH TEA
AND BINDI’S BAD FASHION IS GETTING TO ME
ONCE I DESIRED TO BE UNDER THE SEA
AND I WILL LET THAT BE A LESSON TO ME
I WILL SWIM TO THE SURFACE
CLIMB A DEAD TREE
AND LET THE TORNADOS
TAKE CARE OF ME!

OO WEE OO WEE
BINDI AND ME BINDI AND ME
OO WEE OO WEE
APOCALYPSE JAM UNDER THE SEA
ETCETERA

Interview: Richard In Your Mind

Richard In Your Mind: Tribal jams and three dollar steaks

SYDNEY'S Richard In Your Mind have been on a great run lately. Their new album, My Volcano, is garnering rave reviews from across the country. They also won the NSW leg of the Big Day Out competition this year, and they've just added a new member, Brent Griffin - the artist also known as SPOD - to their lineup. So it's no suprise singer Richard Cartwright is sounding chipper, but the reason behind his attitude is as much a factor of culinary and financial delight as it is the success of his band.

"We've been touring non-stop, I mean I got off a flight from Melbourne where we played a show and went straight to work, so it really has been non-stop,'' he said.

"The good thing now is I've got a day off before we fly to WA and I just found a hotel in Sydney that does three dollar steaks. It's an extra two dollars for mash or chips, but just getting a New York steak with pepper sauce for three dollars...Sydney can be an expensive place to live but finding something like this definitely makes it worth it.''

Richard In Your Mind are playing the Prince of Wales Hotel with Cloud Control and Split Seconds on Thursday night, and for Cartwright it's the first time he's been toWA since 1996, where he met a girl called Ashleigh who sent him a vinyl copy of Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation for Valentine's Day. He also holds an affinity for a former Perth band The Tucker B's, who share some similar characteristics with Richard In Your Mind.

"We take our music seriously, I mean that's why we do it and we want to do it for a living, but I think part of that is it's really fun to do, and if we're having a good time we hope the audience will have a good time, so we put a bit of effort into our stage show,'' he said.

"It's a lot like the Tucker B's, they're serious about what they do but they dress up in robes and they put on a show, and we don't really dress up but we're not above having a confettii cannon, of if there's a wall we can use to project some visuals we'll do that, and we want to break down the barrier between us and the audience.

We've got some percussion out and given it to the audience for a bit of a tribal jam, we're not going to do that every show but it's an effort that we make because we want people to have a good time.''

This sort of off the cuff experimentation is synonymous with their last release, 2009's Summertime EP, an experimental departure from their low-fi psychedelic pop roots. The experiment was a success, and some of the sounds have carried over into My Volcano, along with producer SPOD - aka Brent Griffin - who has, at least for the moment, joined the band officially. According to Cartwright, it's a combination that is working well.

"He's got the mixing experience, so if we want to cut something up he's got the technical knowledge to do it, and while SPOD and Richard In Your Mind don't sound too similar, he knows where we're coming from so he can make that sound. It's weird talking about him because there's a bit of SPOD in Brent, and there's a bit of Brent in SPOD. He's a busy guy so if he needs to go off and do his thing then that's fine, but for the moment we're glad to have him with us.''

Frustration is my name

One of the worst things about being an entertainment journalist is deadlines. I don't have an issue with them, personally, but I think a lot of musicians are kind of lazy by nature. Actually lazy is probably the wrong word, undoubtedly the majority work had on their music, but when it comes to meeting a deadline, they don't seem to concerned. I've learned to live and deal with that and really, I don't mind.

What I do mind is when their management can't meet deadlines, or ensure their clients - aka the band - meet deadlines. What's worse is when you've given management two days to organise something, or god forbid reply to an email, and no response is forthcoming. Words can't express how this makes me feel. I want people to go to shows in Bunbury. Hell, I'd like to think that being good at my job and writing about these bands facilitates that. But I can't help people that won't help themselves. Cloud Control are the headlining band on Thursday night at the Prince of Wales, and I'd love to do an interview with them and talk about their new album. If they're not interested, well then I guess that's their problem.

Big month at the Prince

Massive month for shows. The Strung Out and Gyroscope shows in particular will be brutal and possibly better than this guy:

But that's enough of that frivolity. Here are the dates. All doors open at 8pm.

THURSDAY MAY 27: Cloud Control, Richard In Your Mind, Split Seconds. $18 on the door.

FRIDAY MAY 28: Dan Sultan. $22 on the door.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 2: Dan Kelly. Free show.

FRIDAY JUNE 4: Strung Out. $45 on the door.

SATURDAY JUNE 5: Gyroscope, Break Even. $30

THURSDAY JUNE 10: Children Collide. $22

FRIDAY JUNE 11: Dead Letter Circus. $20

FRIDAY JUNE 18: Dappled Cities, John Steel Singers & Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! Book this through www.heatseeker.com.au and you get Dappled Cities Zounds double vinyl and a t-shirt, $40. $30 without the tshirt and $22 without the vinyl.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 30: Beautiful Girls, Washington. $25.

This doesn't include last minute local shows/smaller bands from Perth coming down last minute either, so it looks like a busy month if you like going to shows, and let's face it, you wouldn't be reading this if you didn't.

Deborah Conway Tour Announcement

Fresh from performing to sell out audiences with the Rockwiz Stage Show at the Concert Hall earlier this month, Deborah Conway returns to WA in August with long time song writing and personal collaborator Willy Zygier plus band to launch their new album Half Man Half Woman.
Playing a selection of new and old tracks these shows promise to showcase the rare talent and accomplished songwriting of the half man half woman Conway Zygier project.
www.deborahconway.com
www.myspace.com/conwayzygier
www.facebook.com/conwayzygier
www.youtube.com/group/conwayzygier


Thurs 5 Aug : Prince Of Wales Hotel **41 Stephen St, Bunbury…. (08) 9721-2016

Doors Tickets for shows available from www.heatseeker.com.au Tickets for Friends Restaurant available from venue

TAME IMPALA - INNERSPEAKER

Just landed on the SWT entertainment desk. Should be a ripper. Also reviewing The Devil Rides Out - The Heart & The Crown. I like to let albums really sink in when I'm reviewing them, so these reviews are about a week, two weeks away. I remember when Clutch released Beale Street To Oblivion, the first three listens I was convinced it was the worst thing they've ever done, which is a pretty big deal when you're talking about your favourite band. A week later I fell in love with it and it's still in my top ten albums of all time.
The same can be said for QOTSA, I loved Era Vulgaris on the first listen. A week later I couldn't stand it. Still can't, and I love QOTSA. Some albums are growers, you just never know which way they're gonna grow.

Split Seconds interview

Sean Pollard - Pretty good at songs, not so good at press pics.

IF you do anything - even something you love - under stressful conditions for long enough, you'll eventually begin to hate it, and that's the kind of situation Split Seconds frontman Sean Pollard can definitely relate to. Pollard, best known as the frontman for the much loved Perth country/folk/rock combo New Rules For Boats, said his new, largely solo project was born out of the New Rules hiatus, when several band member went travelling overseas.

Pollard himself moved to London, and Split Seconds was born as a way of stopping him from going mad.

"In London I was just writing songs to do something, because otherwise I just would have gone mad spending a whole year over there and this was just a way to keep myself occupied,'' he said.

''That's the start of Split Seconds but I only played one solo show in the UK, I played a solo set in Camden so that was probably the first performance.

I also spent about a month in Portugal, and there was this British bar in Portugal full of drunk south London guys and I played covers there for about a month, playing for about three hours a night being ignored or shouted at by drunk guys.

''It was pretty well the worst thing ever, I want to play music but I'd don't want to do covers, it was just something to do, and I'm not sure Split Seconds have a massive Portugese following but if we ever release a cover of Wonderwall it might be a minor hit.

''I actually played that song so much that I started absolutely hating it.''

Since returning to Perth - apart from a trip back to London to mix the debut record with Aaron Cuples - Pollard has worked with a revolving door of musicians, currently consisting of Rhys Davies (Faith In Plastics), James Trewenack (The Jackards), Nat Carson (The Bank Holidays) and Benjamin Golby (New Rules For Boats), and is looking forward to playing more shows, starting with supporting Cloud Control and Richard In Your Mind in Bunbury this Thursday.

"I've got pretty good memories of Bunbury, New Rules played a bit down there when we were younger. It mainly consisted to us playing to about four people but that's more a reflection on us than the pub.

"We had fun though, we always got thoroughly drunk and I think Golby tried to climb on the roof once, but yeah I'm looking forward to the show.''

Album Review - Will Stoker & The Embers

Will Stoker & The Embers
Self Titled

Shock Records

Review: Liam Ducey

I HAVE always considered the best kind of music is the kind you can't really pin down. The kind that doesn't belong to any easily-identifiable sub-genre, but rather fits in between the cracks of music that we're comfortable to label punk rock, indie, hardcore or whatever other genre you want to go with. The kind of music that doesn't conform because it doesn't need to - it can be whatever it wants to be without limiting itself to a particular audience. Suffice to say this kind of music, these kinds of bands, are hard to come by, but when you strike that kind of gold you should hang on to it, because there's an overwhelming amount of mediocrity out there.

Perth's Will Stoker and The Embers are one such band.Like nearly every band that takes their name as Will Stoker and The Embers do - think Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - the focus is undoubtedly on Will Stoker. This isn't to say The Embers - drummer Ashley Doodkorte, bassist Ryan Dux and guitarists Luke Dux (Of I'm Luke Dux fame) and Gareth Bevan (Of I'ma Kill Luke Dux fame) - are unimportant. Bevan and Dux may form the most potent dual-guitar attacks in Perth, as it goes, but when you've got a singer as versatile and charismatic at Stoker, you put the man in front of the band and leave him there.

He sets the tone on the opening track Tickets Please, a pretty straight forward rock and roll number that allows Stoker to show off his chops and gives The Embers a chance to open up the throttle for the verse before reigning things in for the chorus.The King is where things get really good - Stoker delivers his lines in a manic double time, before allowing his towering vocals to soar during the chorus. The album slows down in the middle section, but so versatile is the band and Stoker that while the songs may be slower, the urgency never lags. It carries an energy that's hard to dispute, an energy that is equal parts Stoker and The Embers.

Personally I think they made a slight mis-step with the track-listing - they probably should have closed with In The Belly Of The Beast rather than Penelope, in my opinion - but when you've got your Ipod on shuffle that's hardly a problem. Will Stoker and the Embers should be playing the Prince of Wales Hotel sooner or later, if my sources are right, and when they do they will be definitely worth checking out. They're impossible to pin down and infinitely entertaining.

Amity Affliction tour announcement

THE AMITY AFFLICTION THE YOUNGBLOODS TOUR - THE EXTENDED VERSION!


The Amity Affliction are locked and loaded. After finishing the recording of Youngbloods, their new, second album in New York last week with uber producer Machine, the band are back home and plotting local domination.
Two weeks ago we announced the main course for The Amity Affliction Youngbloods album tour…this week it’s dessert time! Disappointed that the original schedule didn’t include Western Australia, Amity have not only slotted in four shows for WA (including two all ages), but also added another two more all ages gigs for their home‐state Queensland! Amity’s Youngbloods Album Tour is now truly national and totals 15 shows, including nine All Ages, and one Under 18’s only…all in 23 days!
With The Amity Affliction's new album Youngbloods due for release in less than five weeks (18 June), the first single, ‘I Hate Hartley’ is now available for FREE download.Go directly to www.theamityaffliction.com/ihatehartley and prepare yourself for the first brutal taste from Youngbloods, featuring gang vocals from Boston band Four Year Strong, ‘I Hate Hartley’ is the album’s opening track.
Pre‐Orders for both the Youngbloods album and launch tour are on sale now, and moving fast from the band’s website – www.theamityaffliction.com – while you’re there you can also catch episode seven in the adventures of Amity does America (now up to the exciting bit!). And if you really want to get up close and personal, feel free to drop in to the bands Facebook, Twitter or Myspace (details below) and let the boys know what you think of Hartley! Youngbloods will be the coming out party of the year….you have been warned!

The Amity Affliction, Youngbloods will be released independently on June 18 through Boomtown Records via Shock distribution.

BUNBURY Saturday 24 July PRINCE OF WALES1 8+ ONLY ‐ Doors @ 8pm Tickets from Moshtix 1300 438 849; www.moshtix.com.au 78 Records Perth and Mills Fremantle.

YOUTUBE UPDATE

In honour of Dan Kelly coming to Bunbury, I've decided to put my favourite DK song, Drowning In The Fountain Of Youth, in the favourites section of my youtube channel. You can find that in the nodes section to your right. It's a great song - personally I love it because it sounds like Custard. Now if only he'd make a clip for Bindi Irwin Apocalypse Jam.

THE FORCES OF COOL MAY SHOUT ME DOWN
BUT HERE IS SOME GOLD FROM YE OLDE BRAIN TOWN

oh god what have I done to deserve this

Remember how I said some pretty good bands come to Bunbury? Well, other bands come to Bunbury as well.

Case in point: Thirsty Merc, July 21 @ Prince of Wales. MOR has never sounded so...MOR.

Possibly the best press release I've had all week

Dan Kelly Announces First Single From New Album and National Tour

Dan Kelly is back and he's rolling out a new ocean groove sourced somewhere between Williamsburg, Ibiza and the Tote Hotel.
Bindi Irwin Apocalypse Jam, is the first single from the forthcoming album Dan Kelly's Dream. It's a good time apocalyptic fantasy fuelled by wave power and the futuristic undersea chops of environmental superhero Bindi herself, plus chaperone and Mother Terri and uber backing musicians Jimi Hendrix and Ringo Starr!

While flaming tornadoes ravage the last traces of civilization on the earths' surface, Dan and his ultimo band (Dave Williams, Indra Adams, Kiernan Box, Dallas Packard and featuring blazing underwater guitar solo from Alpha Male Lewis Boyes) conduct the word's last recording session deep in the Marianas trench.

Tune in to see if they can survive each other’s fashion mistakes while breathing only bubbles of Jimi's guitar tone for survival! OMFG!!!Will the band stay together as Ringo falls off the wagon and Dan goes srsly AWOL in search of some mermaid comfort? Only 4 minutes twenty of sweet undersea times will tell!Catch Dan and his new Dream Band (™) as they tour the country in support of Bindi Irwin Apocalypse Jam.


Fri 14 May - Northcote Social Club, Melbourne
Sat 15 May - Northcote Social Club, Melbourne
tix:03 9486 1677, http://www.northcotesocialclub.com/
Fri 21 May - The Troubadour, Brisbane
tix:Oztix 1300 762 545, www.oztix.com.au
Sat 22 May - Great Northern, Byron Bay
tix:Oztix 1300 762 545, http://www.oztix.com.au/
Fri 28 May - Spectrum, Sydney
tix: Moshtix 1300 438 849, http://www.moshtix.com.au/
Sat 29 May - Brass Monkey, Cronulla
tix: 02 9544 3844, http://www.brassmonkey.com.au/
Sun 30 May - Otis Bar, Wollongong *SOLO*
Tix: available at the door - $10
Wed 2 June - Prince Of Wales, Bunbury
Tix: Free!
Fri 4 June - Amplifier Bar, Perth
tix: Moshtix 1300 438 849, http://www.moshtix.com.au/
Sat 5 June - Jive Bar, Adelaide
tix: Moshtix 1300 438 849, http://www.moshtix.com.au/
Fri 11 June - Republic Bar, Hobart
tix: Moshtix 1300 438 849, http://www.moshtix.com.au/
Sat 12 June - Barwon Club, Geelong
tix: 03 5221 4584
Sun 13 June - Karova Lounge, Ballarat
tix:Oztix 1300 762 545, http://www.oztix.com.au/
http://www.dankelly.com.au/

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Let me assure you, this is fantastic news. A free show from a dude that is worth at least 30 of your hard earned. Get on it.

Flickr

I do live reviews at the Prince of Wales reasonably often, and most of the time I take a couple of photos. I've found a home for them over at Flickr, so if you're visually inclined, take a look over at http://www.flickr.com/photos/southwestmusic

I've added this to the nodes as well.

Youtube

So I've created a youtube account. I'm going to post music videos of bands that are playing at the Prince of Wales soon in the favourites section. As a start I've put up some stuff by Richard In Your Mind and Cloud Control. Enjoy here: http://www.youtube.com/user/southwestmusic

I'll also put this link in the NODES section to the right.

Next week at the Prince

Dan Sultan, bein' all swarthy and handsome.

Big weekend of shows at the Prince of Wales next week. We've got Cloud Control - psych pop from the Blue Mountains - Richard In Your Mind - really, really bizarre psych rock from Melbourne, really as strange as the name suggests - and Split Seconds - new Perth band featuring members of New Rules For Boats - playing on Thursday night. Should be a ripping show, doors open at 8pm and tickets are $15 on the door or through Heatseeker, who I will be putting in my links section as soon as I get around to it.

Friday night is Dan Sultan, supporting his new album Get Out While You Can. It's a really good album, Sultan is a very talented guy. If you're not familiar with his music then the best point of reference is probably his role as the bad-boy hearthrob in Bran Nue Day. Tickets at the door are $22.

I'll be posting an interview with Cloud Control, and hopefully Split Seconds, some time next week. Maybe Richard In Your Mind as well...see how it goes.

I do what I like and I like what I do

Welcome to South West Music. My name's Liam, in an entertainment journalist with the South Western Times, and I'm a music nerd. I've got a pretty sweet job - I basically get to write about bands coming to Bunbury, and what do you know, a lot of pretty good bands come to town. I've started this blog so you don't have to wait for the paper. This will be a bit different from the SW Times version though - I don't have to edit myself so heavily here. There will be more posts coming soon, honest. Possibly too many, but I'm sure you'll learn to cope. To your right you'll see nodes - I'd recommend using the twitter site to keep yourself up to date, and the youtube site to check out just what you'll be getting at the Prince of Wales on any particular weekend.