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JULY

  • 7th – Box Elder, Danvers & Ghost Knife, Gold Bloom at the Jade Monkey.
  • 8th – Hawks of Alba, Tiger et Ghost at the Metro.
  • 9th – Hit the Jackpot, Terrible Truths, Peak Twins at the Metro.
  • 10th  – The Sea Theives at the Wheatsheaf.
  • 24th – Warpaint at Jive
  • 24th – Slug Guts & Grong Grong at the Metro.
  • 30th – Cheer Advisory Council support The Tiger & Me at the Wheatsheaf.
  • 30th – Pets With Pets at the Ed Castle.

AUGUST

  • 1st – Christian Haines at the Wheatsheaf.
  • 27th Fatti Frances at the Metro.

SEPTEMBER

  • 3rd – Batrider at Format.

OCTOBER

  • 21-23rd – Womad Earth Station includes the Kronos Quartet, Wu Man, Toumani Diabaté and Mista Savona. More acts to be announced in August.

On the Stereo

  • Jesu – Ascension cd (Caldo Verde)
  • James Pants – s/t 2LP (Stones Throw)
  • Sun Araw – On Patrol 2LP (Sun Ark)
  • MV + EE & The Golden Road – Country Stash LP (Three Lobed Recordings)
  • Otis Redding – The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads LP (4 Men with Beards)
  • Van Dyke Parks – Money is King 7″ (Bananastan)
  • Van Dyke Parks – Paris 7″ (Bananastan)
  • Zulya – Tales of Subliming cd (Unstable Ape)
  • Jonny Trunk – Animation & Interpretation 7″ (Ghost Box Study Series)
  • Avant Gardeners – Mine Errant Vangarden LP

Clarendon via Flagstaff Hill

Nice clear day but too windy, especially coming down Cox Hill Rd, and it was a bit of a battle riding into the wind on the Veloway.

The combined climbs of Flagstaff and Chandlers Hills makes a good challenge. Happy Valley Drive is a busy road but there is plenty of space for bikes on the shoulder so it’s quite safe. Chandlers Hill Rd is narrow in parts but not so busy. The winding descent into Clarendon via Clarendon Rd is well worthwhile, but the climb back out was a bit nasty.

Piggott Range Road was new to me, and I recommend it for riding. Quiet Rd with a nice smooth surface along a ridge with views out to the sea over Noarlunga, and on the other side views of the Kangarilla area. It continues onto Cox Hill Rd (there is a sign warning that Piggott Range Rd is gravel from that point), which has a nice easy decent down to Hackham where you can join the Coast to Vines Rail Trail.

 

The Secret Life of Central Heating

It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these – another episode from the classic series The Secret Live of Machines. With the weather cooling down this one seems appropriate.

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Collarbones & Ghoul at Format this Saturday

A reminder that Sydney’s Ghoul are playing with Adelaide/Sydney duo Collarbones, plus Mike Radz’s new band Glisk at Format this Saturday. Tickets are $12 from Format (tomorrow between 3 & 6) or $15 on the door. Also available from Oztix.

Here’s Collarbones

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and Ghoul

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Artificial Intelligence II

Some classic ambient electronica … just for the sake of it. B12, Seefeel and Link all from Warp’s Artificial Intelligence II compilation from 1994.

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Favourite New Music: Demdike Stare, Leyland Kirby, Shackleton

Good exchange rate = affordable vinyl.

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from Voices of Dust LP, just reissued in a limited edition together with two other vinyl releases from last year, Forest of Evil and Liberation Through Hearing.

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From brilliant new EP, Intrigue & Stuff Vol 1 (first of 4 apparently), very different to the previous material released under this name.

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One of two recent vinyl releases on Honest Jon’s – this one is Fireworks, the other is Deadman (which collectively include great remixes from The Bug, T++ and Mordant Music). Also still fairly new is Shackleton’s mix for Fabric which consists entirely of his own music from old Skull Disco stuff right through to new unreleased material.

 

[gigs] Avant Gardeners LP Launch

Pick for this week is the LP launch by the Avant Gardeners at the Jade on Saturday.

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MAY

  • 27th – Jamie Hutchings, Cheer Advisory Council at the Metro.
  • 27th  – Jet Boys, God God Dammit Dammit, Strawberry Fist Cake, Pink Flamingos, DJ Sex Pest at Tuxedo Cat.
  • 28th – Avant Gardeners LP launch with  Mondo Phase Band, Tom Smith, Les Goolies and Swimsuit at the Jade Monkey.

JUNE

  • 2nd & 4th 3rd & 5th – The Wagons at the Wheatsheaf
  • 4th – Ghoul & Collarbones at Format.
  • 18th – Tumbleweed at Fowler’s Live.

JULY

  • 1st Van Dyke Parks and Kinky Friedman at the Gov.
  • 24th Warpaint at Jive.

On the Stereo

  • Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope to the Sky 2cd (Young God)
  • Jandek – The Myth of Blue Icicles cd (Corwood)
  • Nico – The Marble Index cd (Rhino)
  • The Sea Thieves – They Will Run cd
  • Frank Lowe & Rashied Ali – Duo Exchange cd (Knitting Factory)
  • Schackleton – Fabric 55 cd (Fabric)
  • Sugar Minott – Sugar Minott at Studio One 2LP (Soul Jazz)
  • Talking Heads – Remain In Light cd (Sire)
  • Fugazi – Red Medicine cd (Dischord)
  • Eat Skull – Wild and Inside cd (Siltbreeze)

Ride to Work via Belair & Crafers

Took the scenic route to work this morning. The weather was perfect and it was a reasonably challenging ride with three fairly tough climbs

  • The Caroline Path from Lynton Station to Belair which includes a 20% gradient at one point.
  • The climb up the eastern end of Belair National Park to get up to Upper Sturt Rd.
  • Sturt Valley up to Crafers – the Sturt Valley Rd was closed at the Crafers end so had to take Heather Rd up to Stirling instead.

After that was a very pleasant descent down the old highway through Eagle on the Hill (followed by a rather less pleasant descent down Glen Osmond Rd).