This YouTube video shows Brisbane Indie band Tragic/Athletic playing their song “Three Months At Sea”. If you like what you hear, you can click here to go to Tragic/Athletic’s Myspace page and listen free to more of their music, or click here to see two more YouTube videos of Tragic/Athletic.
Tragic/Athletic are playing on Friday January 2nd at The Zoo, 711 Ann St, Fortitude Valley, (click here for a Google Map) supporting San Francisco act The Dodos. Local band kissy trouble company will also be playing. Tickets are $40+ booking fee – click here to order.
For full information on what’s happening in Brisbane music each week, check out Scene Magazine’s Gig Guide.
Archive for December, 2008
Brisbane Musicians of the Week: Tragic/Athletic play The Zoo, Fri Jan 2
Dec 31st, 08
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Brisbane YouTube: Street Performers in Queen Street Mall
Dec 31st, 08
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These two videos are by YouTube user 1000NIN, who is originally from Chiba, in Japan, and is now in Brisbane. 1000NIN’s occupation is “influencing by music”.
The videos are of three different street performers in the Queen St Mall in Brisbane City, including a bagpipe player, a Korean violinist and a guy on a huge unicycle.
Brisbane Storm Photos: Do you ever dream? #bnestorm
Dec 31st, 08
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This photo of a rainbow and clouds was taken by Flickr user Garry’ at Wellington Point, on Greater Brisbane’s southern bayside.
If you want to use this photo for non-commercial reasons, you can do that, because Garry’ has released this photo under a Creative Commons non-commercial, share-alike, attribution licence – you can use the photo as long as you’re not selling it, and as long as you make sure Garry’ gets the credit. Thanks, Garry’.
Photos of Brisbane Storms: Thunderclouds over Victoria Point #bnestorm
Dec 31st, 08
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This photo by Flickr user John Worthington shows storm clouds building up before the storm last night, December 30th 2008. The photo’s called “Victoria Point – Bad Things Cometh“. Victoria Point is a region of the Greater Brisbane area, out on the southern bayside in Redland Shire, south of Wynnum, Cleveland and Wellington Point.
Brisbane New Year’s Eve: Free Events at Southbank
Dec 27th, 08
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Southbank is the place to be for free entertainment all day on New Year’s Eve, Wednesday December 31st 2008. There’s fireworks at 8.30pm and midnight, a dance party from 7pm, or a jazz lounge from 7.30pm if sitting and listening is more your thing. From 4pm there are family films, Mario Kart Wii and Guitar Hero competitions, and from 3pm there’s a DJ mix of chilled beats (apparently).
There’s going to be special bus and train services on the night, so click here to check out when your services are running.
There’s going to be special bus and train services on the night, so click here to check out when your services are running.
Brisbane Auditions: Sun Jan 18th, "He Died With A Falafel In His Hand"
Dec 16th, 08
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Via girlclumsy’s blog:
The play “He Died With A Falafel In His Hand”, based on Brisbane author John Birmingham’s notorious book about just how bad living in share housing can be, is going to be on in Brisbane next March. Auditions are on Sunday January 18th at 4pm at the Brisbane Arts Theatre, 210 Petrie Tce, Brisbane City (click here for a Google Map).
, is going to be on in Brisbane next March. Auditions are on Sunday January 18th at 4pm at the If you’re on Facebook, you can join the play’s group here, and you can purchase a copy of the book from Amazon.com if you click here.
Brisbane Christmas Lights: The Sallaways, Rochedale
Dec 16th, 08
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This video is of a pretty spectacular Christmas light display put on by the Sallaway family of Childs St, Rochedale. According to the info on the video, that’s Sinead O’Connor singing:
The display is fully computer controlled and synchronized to music. We have over 70,000 lights, on almost 300 individually controllable channels. All the music synchronization is done by hand, and it takes about 10 hours per minute of music — so this song took about 20 hours to do!
The music is played on speakers for viewers, but also broadcast over low-power FM (on 91.7 FM) so people can tune their car radios to it.
This year, we have decided to raise money for the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation, who work wonders for sick children. If you’d like to make a donation, visit http://www.workingwonders.com.au/ — or if you come to see the show in person and have enjoyed the lights, pop any spare change you have in our collection tin! :-)
If you’d like to drop in, click here to see a Google Map showing where Childs Street is.
Brisbane Wildlife Photos: Lynx Spider
Dec 16th, 08
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This photo is of a Lynx Spider in Brisbane – it was taken by flickr user 7thsage. And it’s an awesome close-up shot.
You can find out more about the Lynx Spider at Wikipedia, or The Find-A-Spider Guide, or at Brisbane Insects.
Brisbane Art: Jugglers Art Space X-Show Opening Photos, Fri Dec 12
Dec 15th, 08
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I went to the opening of the X-Show at Juggler’s Art Space last Friday night, saw some fine-looking art, and took pictures of the crowd.
There’s work from over 40 artists displayed at the X-Show. The ones that stood out most to me were by Shaun Campbell, Mark Zeidler, Merv1! and Kate Geck
Shaun Campbell has a really cute style of working. The piece I liked most of his was called “Making The Best Of A Bad Environment – Turtle“.
Kate Geck had a studio installation in a small room on the upper floor. It had furry white carpet and two large, furry, vaguely alien-looking-beings each with television screens in their torsos. No, not like Teletubbies, these furry things had no arms, legs or faces, and just sat on the floor on their large bases. Weird and fun. This piece got a lot of people looking at it. You can click here to listen to an interview she did for 4ZZZ-FM in July this year about her work on the Big Square Eye project at the Brisbane Festival.
Mark Zeidler’s piece, “Mi Goreng Long Time” was a stenciled face of a woman onto a piece of carton from the very best junk food that has ever been invented in time and space, Indo-Mie Mi Goreng. If you click here, you can see what the Mi Goreng cartons look like.
Merv1! had a wide, short piece called “Charles Whitman” that was full of intricate designs that looked like they took ages and ages to get right. This piece is on the top floor, in the room near the back door.
If you’d like to see the other 35 photos I took, just click here to see them at Zoom, the photo-sharing site.
The X-show is on until January 31st. Click here for a Google Map showing the location of Juggler’s Art Space at 103 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley.
Brisbane Politics: Report on Sat Dec 13th anti-Internet-censorship rally #nocleanfeed
Dec 14th, 08
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Brisbane nocleanfeed rally from Natalie Perkins on Vimeo.
Yesterday, Saturday December 13th saw rallies across the country to protest against the Government’s plans to censor the Internet. This article is going to gather all the online photos, reports and videos I can find about the Brisbane rally, which happened in Brisbane Square, the large open space in between the new city council building and the Treasury Casino, just across George St from the end of the Queen St Mall. The video above is by Brisbane blogger Natalie Perkins, and just below is the story that ran on the local ABC TV news last night:
Blogger Ian Kath made this live report, and also this one, using Qik, a service that lets you send live reports to the Internet from an Internet-connected mobile phone.
This slideshow from flickr shows over a hundred photos from yesterday’s protest. People who took the photos include flickr users flickrsquared, Mighty Mullet, gnuchris2, 5cheherazad3 and definatalie. There’s also some photos from Surrealist1983, max_wedge, rahook2000 and master_gopher, and a short photoblog post at the OCA Research Review blog.
I helped to organise the rally, and I was the first speaker. My preliminary report of the rally is here, and I really recommend you have a look at this discussion at the brisneyland LiveJournal community between several people who went. It’s a serious discussion of what could be done better, and how to win this fight. I’d also suggest you have a look at this comment at the Strange Times blog which discusses what should be happening at a rally – it was about the Melbourne one, but the ideas there are relevant to every city. There’s also an article at Strange Times which says we should go more on the offensive and take some skin off Conroy, Hamilton etc by pointing out that THEY are the ones who are sexualising children – this issue really needs to be thought about and thrashed out.
There were also online articles in the Brisbane Times, and two reports online at the ABC website – the first ABC report is here and the second report is here. There are also articles about the rally at the Off Topic With Ashley blog, and here at Public Polity, both of whose bloggers spoke at the event.
That’s all I’ve found for now, but I’m sure there will be more photos, articles, videos and such in the next few days. So if you know of something that should be here and isn’t, just leave a comment and I’ll get on to it.
EDIT 1) I forgot to link to the two voice posts I put onto LiveJournal. I called these posts in live from the rally. Post One is here and Post Two is here.
2) Brisbane blogger Ian Kath has made a podcast of interviews he did at the rally. Click here to go to his blog post, where you can download the podcast.
3) Brisbane blogger gnuchris has a report on the rally here on his blog, and a short YouTube vid of the crowd here.
4) Brisbane blogger Nicole Jensen has a report of the rally with some constructive criticism. You can see it if you click here.
5) If you’re on Facebook, you can see videos of Mike Fitzsimon and Tiara Shafiq talking at the rally. There are also about 200 photos at the Facebook event page for the rally.
6) Brisbane blogger Michael Meloni of somebodythinkofthechildren.com has coverage and photos of the rally up.
7) 6 photos from Flickr user Alegrya
8) Mike Fitzsimon, who spoke at the rally, has written a blog post “Cancer and Colitis vitims Condemn Conroy’s Censorship“.