Tag Archives: The Brag
ARIAs 2004
First things first. So the red carpet is about as weird and intimidating as you’d imagine. As soon as you step onto it macho photographers start yelling at you to move along, which you try in a confused shuffle-step sheep-like … Continue reading
Our Wolfmother?
Wolfmother. If you live, work or play in the music industry, that name will have you nodding your head in instant recognition – those guys, the ones everyone keeps telling me about. The next buzz band. If you’re drawing a … Continue reading
Van She, Mercy Arms
Civic Hotel, City, Friday, December 9 Brag: Who are you hear to see? Boy 1: Van She! I heard them on the radio, they sounded cool, so I thought I’d check ’em out. Brag: What about Mercy Arms? Boy 1: Mercy … Continue reading
The Presets
The New Exotica of Rock Electronica If you’re a Sydney-sider by trade, whether you know it or not, The Presets have crossed your path. Perhaps as session/touring musicians for Daniel Johns and Paul Mac’s Dissociatives, perhaps as supports for everyone … Continue reading
Sydney’s Most Kissable Rockstars
Top Ten So Hot Right Now List Through countless anonymous phone surveys, drunken conversations with complete strangers and up-till-3am-doing-mathematical-equations-on-whiteboards-over-take-out-pizza-and-beer-with-a-crack-team-of-dedicated-if-kooky-professionals, The Brag presents our completely subjective guide to who we think is totally hot in Sydney, right now.. Adam Jesson, Purplene: … Continue reading
Fear and Loathing with the Midnight Juggernauts
Published January 10, 2004 4.30pm: We were somewhere around Albury at the edge of Victoria when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, ‘I feel a bit lightheaded – maybe you should drive’. And suddenly there … Continue reading
NYE 2005
Expatriate, Damn Arms, Pip Branson Corporation, Teenagers In Tokyo Spectrum, Darlinghurst December 31, 2005 The Eve of a New Year. 2005 lay behind us, a shimmering silver stream washing westward our highlights and lowlights, our triumphs and our travesties. A year older? Of … Continue reading
How To Start A Kick-Arse Band
This was in a publication put out by local radio station, fbi. Hail from a relatively obscure country, known for producing unique, regularly name-checked acts. ie. Scotland, Sweden. Failing that, just say you’re from Detroit. Your band must consist of … Continue reading
I Watched Music Videos for 24 hours
Video-Clip-A-Thon: The Journey The Challenge: To watch video clips for 24 hours straight. The Result: Part research, part cultural experimentation, part drug-fuelled hi-jinx. 9.08am: Of course it’s a fucking beautiful day outside but I’m here, not exactly fresh but nevertheless … Continue reading
Laneway Festival
Indie and DIY have always gone hand in hand. From fanzines on obscure bands in high school to creating fanbases on myspace, the button badge set were born and bred to do it ourselves. So it’s tres fitting the year’s … Continue reading
Georgia is a Writer 