Sunday November 23rd

With a tear in my eye and a fondness in my heart I hung up my local and vocal headphones today for about three months, doing something a bit different over summer (tune in 5 pm Sundays for more info from December).

Heading to Queenscliff Music Festival next weekend so the spunky boys from Three Chords and the Truth will be filling in for me again next week before launching into their own season 1-3 Sundays.

This week a new website was launched, head to blacklist.org.au if you'd like any information about the fantastic breadth and depth of genres in Indigeonous music, from traditional, to folk, to hip hop. The site features artists such as Ruby Hunter, Archie Roach, Kev Carmody, Dave Arden, Tjimba and the Yung Warriors. There are more than one hundred pages in the works.

Blacklist.org.au is an initiative of Fraynework, a not-for-profit, multimedia and communications solutions provider established by the Sisters of Mercy based in Carlton. 

Victorian Gunditjmara musician, Dave Arden, one of the architects of blacklist.org.au says

“For the first time we have the opportunity to express our culture through an indigenous music portal to the wider national and international audience,

“What I see blacklist.org.au doing is giving indigenous Australia a chance to showcase their art where it’s “hand-on” and we can maintain creative control.”

Ripper - Go check it out!

My feature artist this week was Husky Gawenda, frontman of Melbourne group Husky

They're playing at the Northcote Social Club on Thursday 4th of December, they're absolutely ripper live and I demand you go check them out.

Music Log - the mish mash

• The Drones - Your Acting's Like The End Of The World
  
• The Benson Campaign - Popcharts
  
• The Winnie Coopers - Get Up
  
• TZU - Got To Do
  
• The Millers Tale - Elbow Room
  
• Cilla Jane - The Lighthouse Song
  
• Eva Popov - Window
  
• The Guild League - Dangerous Safety
  
• Bertie Blackman - Last Song
  

Feature Artist - Husky

• Husky - On Fire
  
• Husky - My Heart
  
• Joan As Policewoman - Real Life
  
• Husky - All Night Conversations
  
• Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel Number 2
  
• Husky - I'm Not Broken
  

Do you have tickets to the gun show?

I spoke with Dan Vo about his program The Fool and the Opera which will be airing Sundays at 6 pm over summer on JOY 94.9. He brought in a fab track by Helen Noonan (no relation to K Noo) called Brisbane Ladies. Check out the blog, it's sure to be some great radio.

Catch ya on the flip side yo, stay tuned to JOY 1 pm Sundays for the sensational Three Chords and the Truth, for all the best in blues, folk and gospel. 

WHAT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

- Queenscliff Music Festival!

- Jen Cloher, Laura Jean and Liz Stringer at the Corner Hotel on Thursday 27th November

- AIR awards at the Corner Hotel Monday 24th November

MUSIC OBSESSION OF THE WEEK

It's all about Emiliana Torrini for me this week, not particularly local but the Icelandic lady swept me off my feet when I saw her at the Forum last Tuesday night. Brilliant music. 

Sunday November 9

This week I had the great pleasure of interviewing a pair of accomplished solo artists who have formed a duo of the ye olde ye ha genre. Jordie Lane and Tracy McNeil are Fireside Bellows. Their album No Time To Die will be released next Saturday, check them out at an instore performance at The Last Record Store.

We discussed the important issue of which apple is most superior, Jordie failed to articulate his preference so he will be coming back in the future to get into this important detail. They brought in some fab alt-country tracks as well as spinning some of their own ditties.

Music Log

• Fireside Bellows - I Ain't Gonna Fall
  
• Fireside Bellows - In The Pines
  
• Old Crow Medicine Show - Caroline
  
• The Idle Hoes - Back Beaches of Rye
  
• Van Walker - If Lovin You Ain't Crazy I Am
  
• Fireside Bellows - Come Back Julie
  

Here they are - what a pair of spunks!
Check them out at some gigs they're doing soon - 

Album launch at the Northcote Social Club November 23, support by Suzannah Espie and Redfish Bluegrass.

Queenscliff Music Festival - 3 gigs over three days including the mighty Blues Train! That's all happening in Queenscliff (funnily enough) November 29-30

Folk Rhythm and Life festival in El Dorado - December 5-7. This is sold out but I'm hoping to get through the gate in the boot of Jordie's car. (Come on Jordie, help a brother out).

Second hour - mixed tape for the lovelorn, the hopeless, the dumped, the romantic write offs. I'm in the club. I feel your pain.

• Paul Kelly - Change Your Mind
  
• Josh Pyke - Vibrations In Air
  
• Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set - You Can Stay The Night (campfire version)
  
• The Waifs - Here If You Want
  
• Lenka - Like A Song
  
• Mat McHugh - Numb
  
• Sal Kimber - Loneliness
  
• Missy Higgins - The Wrong Girl (live)
  
• Sarah Blasko and Darren Hanlon - Hold Your Horses
  
• John Meyer - Sweep
  
• Don't Mess With The Pony - Show Us The Way
  
• Tinpan Orange - The Tide
  
• Magic Dirt - Dirty Jeans
  

I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

Checking out a bit of the country I've never seen before - heading up to Alice Springs for the CBAA (Community Broadcasting Association of Australia) conference, checking out some Uluru action for a few days and chilling in 42 degree heat and thunderstorms. AWESOME. I hope to survive and stay hydrated.

MUSIC OBSESSION OF THE WEEK

Anything sad and mopey and related to FAILING AT LOVE. Paul Kelly is really good for that. 

NEXT WEEK ON LOCAL AND VOCAL

Andy Mack and Alex from Three Chords and the Truth will be filling in whilst I gallivant all over the countryside like a naughty schoolgirl. Good times.

2nd November

Music Log

Liz Stringer - feature artist picks

Liz is one of the grousest songwriting ladies in Melbourne, she's just come off three and a half months of touring and has travelled the country, and there are more gigs coming up. See her website for details.

 

Liz Stringer - Over The Sea

Liz Stringer - Alone

Jen Cloher and the Endless Sea - Hidden Hands

Mia Dyson - Never Felt Young

Sal Kimber - Distance

Jenny's mish mash

The Panics - Ruins

Whitley - I Remember

Kate Miller-Heidke - Space They Cannot Touch

Josh Pykes - Where Two Oceans Meet

The Waifs - Sweetest Dream

The Cat Empire - No Longer There

Angus and Julia Stone - Mango Tree

Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning

Muscles - Ice Cream

Eddy Current Suppression Ring - I Admit My Faults

You Am I - Davey's Gone Green Again

The Basics - Just Hold On

I also had a chat with Brad about his new open mic night OutLoud - you can go along to Neverwhere on Smith Street Fitzroy each Tuesday night if you'd like to be involved as a spectator or you can get up on stage and have a sing!

If you'd like to speak to Brad feel free to email him bigbradwolf@gmail.com

MUSIC OBSESSION OF THE WEEK

Not very local but Feist has been on high rotation in my eardrums. Pretty pretty pretty.

I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

Anika Moa at the Spiegeltent

Lior at the Spiegeltent

NEXT WEEK ON LOCAL AND VOCAL

Jordie Lane and Tracey McNeil from the Fireside Bellows