Joyeux Noël, loves

In celebration of the fact Christmas / Noël is upon us in two days, here’s some Christmas-sy, home sickening music!

Paul Kelly - How to Make Gravy



:’( PAUL KELLY! This brings tears to my eyes.

This is a totally brillant interview with Paul Kelly. Well, it's not brillant, but it could have been and the content COULD have been better organised, but whatever, it tells us a lot!

The Pouges - Fairytale of New York


(that guy has a serious lack of teeth.)

And here’s the Aussie cover / version!!

Clare Bowditch and Tex Perkins singing Fairytale of New York for the Rockwiz Christmas special of 2007.



(I love Clare Bowditch! Her first name is my middle name!! :D Plus, she’s almost as tall as Tex Perkins and that’s quite an achievement in itself!) (Ohh, and a soprano sax!)

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I’m off the The North (THE North. Very North. The tip of France.) tomorrow to spend Noël with my host family’s family. Ahh big groups of people!! :) Should be fun!

Merry Christmas and I hope you have a very happy New Year!

I love you!

xx

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Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2010

TheHottest 100 is upon us again!

What to vote for?? Laura Marling’s 2010 alubum, I Speak Because I Can was possibly the best thing I heard all year. POSSIBLY. Very close to, though.



Gypsy & the Cat are totally amazing, but still not sure they’d make the top 10. PLEASE DON’T EAT ME.



I adore this cuteness by Darren Hanlon.



This song just gets in because the video clip is cool and honest. Again, please don’t eat me!



BUT THIS IS SO HARD!

You guys have it easy -- most of you have had Triple J close at hand. Me? I’ve occasionally been streaming the graveyard hours. It’s hard. I have music from up to August, but now it’s just the same, on repeat.

I’m going by what random people from in and around Triple J are voting for.

This is hard.

I have a feeling I’m not actually going to vote, but stream the results and DISCOVER NEW MUSIC … from the Hottest 100?? That’s new.


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That's Me!!

I'm the sort of person who would rob your garden if you had prettiful flowers just SITTING there.

:)

To be honest, today I sort of did xD

When asked why?

'Well, they have at least 10 more roses. They won't miss one' .... being stuck into the bun of a random teenaged girl and paraded around like it's the melbourne cup.



My flower could beat that any day, bi-atch.

OMG THERE'S A ROSE HAIR SPIDER!

um



Sooorrrt of what it looked like, but

a) real

b) bigger and better!! and stuck at the top. jeeeesuuusss i'll just post more pictures later, k?

and if you're interested in rose-like-hair-pins, well here you go

oh and c) There was only one.

MY ROSE IN BUN ROCKED MY DAY OUT OF IT'S SOCKS!!

(On a side note, I have a few old tom and alex podcasts on my ipod and I was listening to epic shit about the atheists convention. then i fell in love with paul.... v all over again (please note he IS NOT the random directer! this guy is better!!). and thhheeen i heard epic music and now i WISH i had my very own itunes again *wipes tear* I MISS MUSIC! well i have music, but that's beside the point. I'm going to come back and listen to the hottest 100 AND I'LL BE FIVE MONTHS BEHIND THE TIMES! fin)

I love you world.

happy adventuring :)

xx

Does anyone else think Howl has the coolest EP cover EVER?

You HAVE to agree. It's original art. And she looks like a real person and it all looks very real.



Thanks iTunes :)

and here's a smaller, less blurry one:



Have fun with.... LIFE!

On the Jellicoe Road's Sountrack (according to me)

On the Jellicoe Road is an amazing book. It shatters you up and peices you back together. It does what a good book should. Yes, you will cry with this book. Of sadness and of happiness. It's very powerful.



Now, sixty billion songs coming up: (you can look them up on itunes!)

Have fun. Read the book.

italics means very very important for the story. and bold is the band names.

Snow patrol:
open your eyes
crack the shutters
singal fire
chasing cars

two door cinema club;
come back home
something good can work
undercover martyn
eat that up, it's good for you

silversun pickups
panic switch

sarah blasko
all i want
we won't run

sparkadia
jealousy

vampire weekend
campus

peter bjorn and john (no comma at all! totally real, not a mistake... in case you're wonderiong):
lay it down

birds of tokyo( this band and snow patrol are very good for this book)
plans
the saddest thing i know
silhouettic
wild eyed boy
broken bones

british india
run the red light
tie up my hands
i said i'm sorry

coldplay
clocks
yellow

death cab for cutie
i will posses your heart

Edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros
home

howl
i hear it's love
blackout

Joan Jett and the blackhearts
bed reputation

josh pyke
middle of the hill
even in corners
new year's song
the lighthouse song (for when they're at the seaside)

the kooks
naive
seaside (for when they're at the seaside)

laura marling
you're no god
night terror
deavil's spoke

lisa mitchell
neopoliton dreams

indigo girls
closer to fine

little red
rock it

matt and kim
daylight

metric
help i'm alive

the middle east
blood
the darkest side

passion pit
little secrets
sleepyhead

philadelphia grand dury
the good news

robyn
cobrastyle

the white stripes
seven nation army

the waterboys
the whole of the moon (this and flame trees is what webb was listening to when he died)
this is the sea (for when they're at the seaside)

yves kelin blue
polka

the shins
phantom limb
new slang

florence and the machine
between two lungs
girl with one eye
blinding
my boy builds coffins
i'm not calling you a liar
howl
cosmic love

jamie t
sticks and stones

Cold Chisel
Flame Trees

What is aussie music?

I've been asked what kind of music Austrlian's listen to, but how would I know? I listen to Indie and Alternative (mainly aussie stuff. I think I put music-miles (like food-miles) on my music. I get the guilts listening to American stuff).

But what defines Aussie music?

Is is ACDC and Kylie Minoge?

Or is it Paul Kelly and Midnight Oil?

Is it contemporary indigenous Australian artists like Jimmy Little, Yothu Yindi, Tiddas, Geoffrey Gurrumul?




Or is it British India playing in a pub by the sea?

Is it all the awesome music coming out of Perth and Brisbane?

Is it Hilltop Hoods and Art vs Science playing to packed festivals?




Is it Australian pub rock?




Maybe it's Cold Chisel and a working class man.

Is it the big festivals like Splendour in the Grass, Homebake and The Big Day Out?

Maybe it's today's stuff, like The Presets, Sarah Blasko, Lisa Mitchell, Cut Copy, The Herd, Hilltop Hoods, Little Red and everything else out there?



Has anyone got any idea what I could say when someone asks 'What's Australian Music?'.