duggup

Well here it is Saturday again and it’s going to be short and sweet. The band don’t seem to have performed since the release of their July 2006 CD called “The Rocks of France”, so it being the pointy football grand final later today, I’m going to a term from the game and take a [...]

I heard “Solo” by the Swedish four piece country band Abalone Dots and had to let you know about them. Four talented women with voices that remind me of the Dixie Chicks meet Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris. Have a listen. Abalone Dots – Solo I’m not a big country fan, but as [...]

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 [...]

I ran across Cineplexx a little over two years ago and pegged them for a Duggup – that’s as far as it got; until now. Going through my backlog, I decided it was time for a revisit. Two years on and I seriously wonder what took me so long. Brazillian Sebastian Litmanovich is the musician [...]

Håkan Jorming is an unsigned singer and songwriter from Stockholm in Sweden. He performs a variety of acoustic indie songs that are gentle and sweet accompanied by finger style acoustic guitar or piano. “Let Me Into Your Heart” is pretty standard emo fodder underpinned by solid kick and rhythm guitar. “Things Will Happen” bears the [...]

It would be easy enough to dismiss this former model as yet another wannabe – but there is substance in the voice, in the songwriting and in the realisation of her work. While the vocals may have an ethereal quality to them, the performance is solid and as for the production the layers each transparent [...]

Last week Thatch sent me a link to an article about music sharing or “piracy” as the records companies would have it. Steve Knightley – singer/songwriter for “Show of Hands” who was interviewed for this article; has this to say on the subject: “You may call this process “piracy” if you wish – for me [...]