Oh a baby sister

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Look what baby made waiting for a lift.

What I've Been Listening To In The Background

The Protectors ~ The title sounds like an influential 80's band late for it's time.

So an OWM reader sent me an email suggesting 'The Protectors' to me and well for the first time, I actively traveled straight to their Myspace page (and lets just take a moment to praise Myspace music, making the digital world just that much more excessble and well just better - amen)..

I was caught of guard by this electric dose of camp, not too camp, just right. The first track is Dangerous Boys and it starts off distorted but carried with a nice soft guitar intro and then evolves to a riff I'd expect influenced from the first Killers Record. It's really upbeat and at first my funeral music taste was all intimidated and hated it. Trying to open up my musical pallet I listened again, I liked.. it is great weekend music, before you go out, cleaning your room and well I'd definitely catch a gig, it sounds like a band who would deliver an upbeat performance.

I like how none of the tracks sound alike, 'I'm a Sister' reminds me of 'The Young Knives' and 'Speak Slowly' is a decendent of LCD and Hot Chip.

I can name all of these influences even if they have not had a hand in production, if they all sounded like the same artist I'd have a problem, but there is nothing from with takes of influence from an array of respectable acts.

Summer soundtrack? Check it >> http://www.myspace.com/theprotectors

We Are Scientists - Thanks to an amazing Glastonbury DVD

For my 21st birthday I received some amazing gifts, some I'd use, some I'd only hop to ie. A Gordon Ramsay Book (I've read it and tried, but you see I've ignited my kitchen twice now - truth is I'm just scared) but one of the best was from a mates Dad who burnt me 08's Glastonbury DVD's.

It hurts to watch because it seems an injustice that I wasn't actually present but through the power of T.V I can watch it from my bed. I picked up a variety of acts mainly We Are Scientists, their performance of 'After Hours' got my attention from beneath my pile of uni readings. Bad W.A.S for encouraging no study.. anyway it's a fun song on high rotation which you confuse for a story about unity and love or something like that but it's basically about a venue haha. It's nice, and starts almost exactly like (Antichrist Televisions Blues) by Arcade Fire, I can overlook it because it makes me happy.

I also picked up on The Editors, the U.K version of Interpol, I like it but not sure if I can stand the similarity.

Ohhh I FINIAL LY got 'Dear Science'! Only now you say? Yeah, only now.. But you see music this fine needs time, appreciation and company.. I need to be with it night and day and I just have not had the time until now.. it's great, wait no, that's dressing it down.. it's immaculate, a portrait of everything (and it's little) great that's going on in music right now, it's like coke in the nose of the nobles.. Raw, deep and bubbly indie sounds.
The best thing about TVOTR is their impeccable talent with loops and Tunde Adebimpe's perfectly echoed vocals. Perfection.

Oh and in other OWM news, we are going to be one of the lucky blogs who will be receiving an exclusive look into one of Sydney's best indie acts new tunes :D This will be an amazing thing for me and you kids because of course if I'm listening, so will you.. More on this soon!

ALSO THOSE OF YOU ATTENDING BIG DAY OUT - do not be lame and show up for the main acts, get outside the bubble and see some kids you might not know! I know Sydney has Children Collide, Sparkadia, Eddy Current Suppression Ring and a few others on early, totally check them out.. DO IT.
Take care crumble-butts.

TUBES 4 GOOGS - Where you need to be Jan 10th!

So as you should all be aware, I am in fact a Central Coastian that somehow got under the fence and made it to the city of Sydney! Thankfully!

However I haven't forgotten my roots nor the place where I sat discovered all my favourite records as I grew up.

So the place doesn't have much but sand, ocean and beer but it has some great people too and the cool cats from the Coast are throwing the biggest event on the beach side towns calendar Tubes 4 Googs!

What's a Googs you ask? Well a "Googs" is a Sean Macgugan of the tight Avoca community who suffered a horrific spinal injury whilst surfing in Samoa in 2003. So in support of Sean and those less fortnuate, Sean's Mates and the whole Central Coast community put together a surf for charity event on the beaches of Avoca including a kick ass benefit night to top it all off.

All proceeds from the comp and benefit go to charity and the whole weekend is killer.

So with a few extra hands involved 6 years later T4G has become a largely sponsored event which takes over 3 days of the January calendar and host some of the best local talent for one night of madness.

Who can you catch this year? Amy Meredeth, Parades, The Lazys, Goons Of Doom, Vaudeville, We Are Grace, One Jonathon and many many more all for $20 at The Woodport Inn who recently hosted Melbourne teen heart throbs British India which sold out to a packed house.

The booze is cheap, the cause is great and the bands are killer.. Why wouldn't you be there?
www.t4g.com.au for tickets!

Happy New Year kids!