Rowland S. Howard.

After days of scorching heat and crazy windy storms, Sydney is now beautiful grey skies and quiet rain.

Listening to Pop Crimes by Rowland S. Howard.

Swans. Manning Bar.

SWANS.  (NEW YORK)


crushing volume. pulverizing repetition. lacerating waves of feedback. claustrophobic. confrontational. hypnotic. psychedelic. experimental. extreme. beautiful.


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Kim Gordon. Bill Nace. BODY/HEAD. Sydney Festival.

BODY/HEAD. The Aurora.  Sydney Festival.

Smokin' hot! Kim Gordon (ex Sonic Youth) and experimental guitarist Bill Nace. Amazing improvised guitar with the primal echo of Kim's voice.

Amanda Palmer. Sydney Writers' Festival.

Amanda Palmer. The Art Of Asking. Sydney Writers' Festival. Enmore Theatre.

Guests. Tara Moss. Neil Gaiman. Sxip Shirey. Robyn Hitchcock. Emma Swift.

Amanda read from her new book 'The Art Of Asking', but a night with Amanda is never complete without her ukulele! Loved Neil Gaiman's reading from Amanda's book!

'The Art Of Asking' by Amanda Palmer comes after Amanda's extremely successful TED Talk, over 10,000,000 views worldwide, and a record breaking Kickstarter campaign.

If you haven't already seen Amanda's TED Talk see it here*

Visit Amanda Palmer here*

The Nice Folk. The Vanguard.

The Nice Folk* with their name up in lights for the 'Touched' Album Launch at The Vanguard Newtown.


If you missed out on a copy of the LP on the night, yeh.. well I don't know how? pink and blue splatter vinyl is a bit hard to miss! or if you saw us in the t-shirt, yeh I know you want one! they're available at

MUSIC FARMERS  228 KEIRA STREET WOLLONGONG

REPRESSED RECORDS 413 KING STREET NEWTOWN

MOJO RECORD BAR 73 YORK STREET SYDNEY

and also online*, visit The Nice Folk* for more....



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