Too busy for anything. Time for videos and wine

Is it just me or are we too busy to do anything we want to do? When it comes to listening to music nobody has the time to sit at their computer and listen to an album. And those who do aren't actually listening to the album at all, it's just background noise. I think the only true way to listen to an album is through the medium of vinyl, because that way you have to actually sit the fuck down and pay attention to the thing and flip it over. I now find myself sitting on the floor in the corner of my room, alcoholic beverage in hand (red wine, beer or whiskey) staring at the record rotating on the vinyl. It sends me into a weird meditation, and only at that moment am I ever truly listening to a record. Sure an ipod provides a nice soundtrack to train rides, car trips and lonely walks, but it will never have your complete attention.

Anyway, I'm slightly drunk again and rambling, basically what I wanted to get to was that people only really have time for music on the internet if their is enough visual stimulant to go with the aural. Hence why youtube video clips are so popular (as long as they are under 5 minutes - we got facebook statuses to update).

So to keep you motherfuckers interested I'm gonna drop some live performances I've been digging. enjoy, then go check fb.


This is Brendon Annesley's (RIP) band Meat Thump performing an excellent cover of V3's "Your Uncle". For some reason I like this even more than the original

Kitchen's Floor - "Back Home" - 18.12.2011 from Joshua Watson on Vimeo.

Matt Kennedy of Kitchen's Floor performing a solo set. Video by Joshua Watson

TV Colours (Live 21/08/2011) from Joshua Watson on Vimeo.

This is the amazing TV Colours from Canberra. Using his mustang guitar, a drum-machine and a heap of loopers and other effects this guy manages to make a one man show that I am envious of. The vocals are not the same as in his awesome split 7" (more reverb), but seriously I dig this...a lot. I implore you to watch it through to the second track and not be amazed at the looping skills as well as the amazing/heartbreaking song.



This is Boomgates (featuring Brandon Suppression of Eddy Current Suppression Ring) playing live at Repressed Records in Newtown. The video is by Matt Kennedy (Kitchen's Floor) under the alias Eternal soundcheck. Matt has already released a movie under eternal soundcheck that documents Australian underground music all through his home video camera. The sound quality isn't perfect and the picture is sometimes grainy, but I love it. Check out Brendan Suppression's awkward pacing and little dance. Oh yeah and that babe playing guitar is Steph Hughes from Dick Diver, who also happens to work at JJJ - I guess that place isn't completely evil. Still not gonna get me to listen to their tripe though...