Britain will not neglect violence against Hong Kong Protesters
Some of the most violent confrontations between pro-democracy protesters and Chinese police, erupted on Sunday near the Hong Kong government's complex.
The United Kingdom’s Foreign Minister Dominic Raab stated at the Conservative Party's annual conference on the weekend, that Britain would not ignore indiscriminate attacks against peaceful protesters.
Protesters have declared their intentions to conduct another march tomorrow, on China's National Day- despite police banning this course of action.
Thigh Master - Now For Example
Three years after releasing Early Sounds, their first full length album, Thigh Master are unveiling their follow up. Titled Now for Example, it features twelve tunes - most of them coming in under three minutes in length.
The shortness of the songs complements their catchiness, and the raw, lofi, indie, jangling-guitar-driven sound draws unavoidable comparisons with New Zealand bands from the legendary Flying Nun label, such as The Clean and The Bats.
One variance, at least to my ears, is that Thigh Master infuse most of their tunes with a greater sense of wistfulness. There is plenty of energy and awareness, but sometimes just a touch less freneticism than is often present with this style of music.
The band have clearly put the three years since their last album to good use. They moved from their Brisbane birthplace to the metropolis of Melbourne, while fitting in tours of Europe and the USA. While the first album had plenty of good songs, this new one is more consistent with barely a filler amongst them.
The album’s first single, Mould Lines, is a good representation of the rest of the album’s content: fast-paced, catchy and easy to sing along to. The one longer song, The Ballad of The Caxton, is a dirgy, slowly staggering ballad referencing a well known inner-Brisbane watering hole. It provides a nice counterpoint to most of the other songs in pace and style, while containing the same ability to blend the sadness and joy that permeates existence.
Thigh Master’s Now For Example is definitely worth checking out and tuning in to. There's plenty of bittersweetness in rock'n'roll but little that's this accessible, almost instantly engaging. It's like longing for the past, something you lost, only to find it here, right in front of you.
Album of the Week Review by - Andrew Bartlett.
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Thigh Master: Now For Example
- Three years after releasing Early Sounds, their first full length album, Thigh Master are unveiling their follow up. Titled Now for Example, it features twelve tunes - most of them coming in under three minutes in length.
The shortness of the songs complements their catchiness, and the raw, lofi, indie, jangling-guitar-driven sound draws unavoidable comparisons with New Zealand bands from the legendary Flying Nun label, such as The Clean and The Bats.
HRBRT: Melopoia
- Green Chimneys Records have released the third tape in their Lo-fi Tape Series. Having focused on more sample-oriented music on the first two tapes, beatmakers give way to ensembles with episode three featuring HRBRT’s Melopoeia and Elktung’s Note To Self. Both sides share musicians and other credits.
M83: DSVII
- When M83 took a step in a decidedly more ambient direction in 2007 with Digital Shades Vol. 1, the title suggested this was just the first taste of this new direction for the band. Now, some twelve years later, we finally get the sequel, initialised to DSVII. Not that it’s really been that long a wait: the time between the two volumes has been filled with three studio albums and three soundtrack albums, the most recent being Knife + Heart released in March of this year, itself scratching that ambient itch.
Film Review: Bangla at Italian Film Festival 2019
Lavazza Italian Film Festival presents Bangla, a quirky romantic comedy film that is Directed by and starring Phaim Bhuiyan and also features romantic interest Carlotta Antonelli as Asia. This film provides a fresh take on modern romance with a twenty-two year old Bangladeshi boy and an Italian girl falling in love. The protagonist and man behind the film Phaim, is a unique character that wants to feel intimacy with a woman despite his Muslim religious background that advises him not to engage in such activities before marriage.
Review: Yang Liping’s Rite of Spring at Brisane Festival
An acrobatic, colourful and unnerving journey through life and death to create an incredible visual spectacle
Yang Liping has created a vibrant reinterpretation of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, using choreographed contemporary dance, mixed with Eastern philosophy. Liping’s last presentation of Under Siege at Brisbane’s 2017 Festival was a popular hit. She has won many awards, including the Gold Award for the 20th Century Chinese Classics of Dance, and is a household name throughout China.
Local Authority: Negative Space
- Just when you think you know everything about music something comes and slaps you upside the head. Thankyou Local Authority for taking the road less travelled and finding an unlikely route from The Church to Sun O))). Post-punk can mean so many things but the unusual Brisbane band have taken a wide knowledge of a sprawling genre and created a unique fusion of its sounds (and a few others besides).
Raymond Scottwalker: Episode 15 - SomethingWasWrong
- Producer Nickolas Sullivan first made waves in Oz with Melbourne band Yolke, a dreamy folk outfit boasting ambitious songwriting and electronic elements. Recently, his talents have turned toward electronic music, churning out deformed bangers as RaymondScottWalker.
Review: Invisible Cities at Brisbane Festival
Inspired by Italian writer Italo Calvino’s novel of the same name, Invisible Cities is about the relationship between hot blooded Kublai Khan, head of the Khan dynasty’s vast empire, and explorer/prisoner Marco Polo as he transcends language barrier, time and space itself to describe to him the state of his vast empire with the promise of release for his Father, Uncle and himself.