duggup

Sunday night is here and I’m going out to catch a band, and today involves a further treat because I found Selena Cross. A young South Australian singer/songwriter and musician who currently lives in Sydney or Melbourne or somewhere else – it depends what you read. I’m thinking that I probably should have heard about [...]

Ginja Roe are Meg Doherty: ( she writes songs, sings, strums, drums, and plays the blues harp) and Pam Wouters: ( she sings, strums, drums and taps). Don’t you just love over-achievers. Well thanks to the dudes at at New Found Frequency there is a fabulous LIVE recording from a gig they did at the [...]

Me and the Grownups (what a great name) fired up in late 2006. A year and bit later in February 2008they released their first album, “Battling the Mountains, the Sky and the Sea”. Anita has her roots in singer-songwriting and traditional folk,Adrian is a jazz guitarist and Jonathan Dreyfus was once a classical violinist and [...]

king tebbutt & whistler are an indie pop group from Melbourne. I stumbled over them while looking at who was playing at Manchester Lane (a Melbourne Jazz venue). There are only two tracks currently available at www.myspace.com/kingtebbuttandwhistler but the track “TV Screens ” is an absolute winner I love the way they get the vocal [...]

I still don’t have my head around this whole “post-rock” thing yet… it all sounds like rock to me but I have been reliably informed that 16 Millimetre fit the bill. Well as I said it all sounds like rock to me.  Here we have a band that are making really intelligent music that gets [...]

Damn I’m going to have to invest even more time on this gig because the number of musicians and acts to be duggup just keeps on expanding. Dan Sultan is another one I’d missed. He is a 23 year old indigenous singer and songwriter, but in reality he is only half the act, because he [...]

Today’s artist will strike some of my friends as an odd one… it’s no surprise that I am not what you would call a “fan” of country. Indeed the sound of a steel guitar usually (but not always sends me running. And then there is Sara Storer, the latest in a select group of people [...]