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A big weekend for festivals out in the east. Warrandyte Festival, Rock Berry Jam up at Wandin & I spent a bit of time at The Basin Music Festival. Saw heaps of different acts & different genres. A highlight was seeing Nick Charles & Pete Fidler playing together. Jaw droppingly good. There's starting to be a few vids of them on YT so here's a couple : Nick Charles Pete Fidler on dobro playing with Bill Jackson at Nut's favourite haunt, the Caravan Club

Did you get on the panel ? I reckon you'd go alright on music trivia knowledge

Shades of Patti Smith / Chrissie Hynde in there HT

That would likely be the final straw. On top of Gore's mooted move to the Eagles & the likely loss of Crabtree to FA, the owner & GM might find themselves strung up from the Golden Gate Bridge

Good stuff. Husker Du's Bob Mould later formed a band called Sugar. They provided another song for me & my mates to slaughter

A few mates & I, armed with guitars & the like, gather weekly & murder a number of songs - some of which are obscure, some of which are much loved favourites. We don't discriminate, we are c r a p at all of them. Here's one of our recent victims from the mid '80's. It's also one of my very favourite songs - I am a sucker for a jangly guitar sound - so I thought I'd throw it in here for the Usual Suspects in this thread

Found something tonight whilst trawling YouTube. Thought it might find an appreciative audience here

Can't help you with Soundwave nut but if you don't find something you like, I see yer man Russell Morris is playing the Caravan Club on Sunday

Reckon I was there for that one as well. Chrissie was a captivating performer & Divinyls were a great live band. And few better debut singles than "Boys In Town" have been released The Palace was a fantastic "big" venue. It had the capacity of the "beer barns" (eg Pier Hotel, Tarmac, Village Green, Manhattan) but with a better vibe. More like a concert Not that it didn't have a bogan element. Saw Gangajang (fantastic band) there with Katrina & The Waves. One witty fellow up the front called out "show us yer t i t s". Katrina gave him a look that would stop a charging rhino then dumped a jug of water all over him. Bands needed to pull a crowd to make it work though. If The Palace was only half full or less it had a bit of an aircraft hangar feel to it

There's a documentary that screened on the ABC last year on the journey of Jeremy Oxley Can't find the whole thing online (maybe WYL can get his hands on it) Doco website here :

My kids were just young teens when they introduced me to Paramore. I heard "Misery Business" and got hooked. Then they attempted to draw me into the teenage girl debate of who's better - Paramore's Hayley Williams or Juliet Simms from Automatic Loveletter And being teenage girls they despised anyone who only knew "Decode" from the Twilight movie. Best played loud

Loved the Prospect Hill - especially Sunday night gigs. They started early and you'd be pleasantly half-cut instead of fully plastered and home in bed before midnight. Excellent preparation for the working week ! Some blasts from the past on that list of 78 Known Gigs Macca. Sweet Jayne with the awesome girl guitarist. Exploding Cats ! Sadly I must admit to being at that gig Jeez we were spoilt for choice with live music venues then

I've seen the singalong nights advertised. Haven't yet made it to the Caravan Club but a mate loves the joint. Used to see Billy a lot when he was in The Spaniards with Mick Pealing, Russell Brown & John Annas on drums. Fantastic band who eventually sunk with barely a trace but they had some great songs. They put out an EP (god - remember them) which was high on song quality but the production stunk up the house. I got a couple of live tapes straight off the mixing desk that sounded better Here's Billy in pub mode and I'll be - there's a Spaniards vid as well

Yep. At first we were wondering if he was pizzed, or ripped off his [censored]. Then my mate suggested that he was perhaps having a stroke. I was so looking forward to seeing him. The other problem he's got - it was a Sports heavy set - not many Sports songs translate well to single acoustic guitar. I've had a crack & most you have to slow down to ballad style to get a half decent result. I remember seeing him in the early days of his solo career with his own band (a well fit Rebecca Barnard on backing vocals) and he and his band were great. I'm pleased to hear he's still got it & I just copped him at a bad time

Pleased to hear it. It sounds like you & I may have frequented some of the same gigs back then. They were such a great band live. I have a gig they did at Martini's in Carlton indelibly imprinted on my brain. Steve Cummings announcing "this is my very favourite song" as they launched into "I Fought the Law". Still the best version I've heard of it. They were having so much fun they did it again as an encore. That Day on the Green concert was a ripper (I went to the Rochford Winery gig). While Steve was sad & the Sunnyboys a bit meh, Tex Perkins was great, JoJo Zep & the Falcons superb (worth the ticket price for them alone) and Elvis Costello & The Imposters - well they could fart a shopping list & still sound amazing. I took my 17 yo daughter who was unfamiliar with all the acts except a few Costello songs. She was blown away.

Sports were my favourite Australian band. Saw them live many times and they were invariably brilliant. Steve Cummings has released some terrific albums as a solo artist as well However, I saw Steve at a Day on the Green gig - just over a year ago. He was terrible. Looked and sounded like he was having a stroke. I was quite saddened by it.

Ah, my favourite version of my favourite Clapton cover. Cheers

It certainly was. The fat bastid is mad on US sports & usually gets over there for the SB No excuse for him getting his bonce on my TV without prior warning though

Nah - I'll stick with my original call but thanks for the opportunity to review This has me farked. The ball is thrown to an official at the end of nearly every play. Surely those refs have handled enough footballs to be able to tell if there is something appreciably wrong. With an AFL footy you can tell in your hands as you mark it if it's a touch flat. Different balls but I'd expect the principle to be the same Not surprised to see the Ravens front & centre when the bleating bandwagon got rolling

Great effort from Kokkinakos tonight. Watching the other Special K in the 5th now. The Fanatics give me the "Edgar Britts". The are worse than those stupid faux Swedish supporters from the '80s

Have gone with the head over the heart through the playoffs. Head says Seattle. F8#k it. Patriots 31 - 24. Would love to see Brady get that 4th ring.

Agreed. I thought it was brilliant. I've enjoyed the commentary teams on Big Bash. They have managed to strike a good combination of providing information and taking the pi55 out of each other

Most of the memorable matches over my years of watching tennis have been "drawn out 5 setters". Except McEnroe's dissection of Connors in a Wimbledon final which was like watching an artist combined with a surgeon. Superb exhibition. I had a look tonight and found it a bit like dancing with your sister. The steps are the same but it doesn't quite feel right. I take your view that a lot of cricket purists don't like 20/20. I do. I also loved the recent Test series against India which was often riveting. 20/20 is almost a different game. It's not just the time constraints it's the tactics, the approach to batting, the balance of attack & defence. Plus you've got a heap blokes trying to hoik it out of the ground - great fun. But very different to Test cricket From what I saw tonight there is no difference in the game being played in Fast4Tennis. The approach is the same, the tactics are the same, the shot selection is the same. The only difference is the scoring. On court, it's just tennis. I guess I'm with Grapeviney on this - I don't see a need for it or a market that is demanding it. Time will tell - which is kinda ironic in a way

Pats 35 - 17 Seahawks 31 - 28 Getting in early least I forget

Given you tipped them to win I reckon you might be selling yourself a bit short there !