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Cassingle is the new CD!

July 16th 2008 06:12
David McCormack


Cassingle is the new CD release from David McCormack. It is something to nibble on whilst you are having a pre-dinner drink. Expect a full album later in 2008. And DON’T PANIC if you have NO IDEA how to create your own cassette from this CD, Jewel Case and (He)artwork – David has kindly supplied all the necessary instructions in the 10 How To Tips supplied. You might need to look up a dictionary under “cassette”. Others will fondly recall their first time recording a record to cassette many years ago.


The Cassingle is essentially a 6 track EP. And whilst McCormack has produced each track you will also hear that Wayne Conolly and “Master” Magoo have lent a hand here and there, as, well now old mates and cohorts to love to work together, even on the smaller projects. They too cannot help themselves but have something to nibble whilst having a pre dinner drink! New name to some, Wes Chew makes an appearance in the recording process.

First cab off the rank is the gorgeous I Don’t Even Know Where To Start With This Kind Of Music, an instant McCormack classic along the lines of Beck’s Sea Change. It is a hazy meditation on loneliness, music and the passing of time. Backed on this track by his long suffering backing group, The Polaroids and mixed by Magoo, McCormack’s rarely sounded better.

Next up we have two tracks recorded in one evening with a pick up band in Kings Cross. The song writing and the playing is wild and free, just the way we like it. Text Book and A.V.O. have to be heard to be believed. Track 4, Hey Lord sees McCormack entering into some quasi-religious material. Think Tom Waits catching a bus with the Flaming Lips and you’ll be about half way there. At last, the truth about fame and fortune, track 5 Rockstar.


We wrap the whole thing up with I Won’t Let You Down, a beautiful string soaked ballad that let’s us all know McCormack is still out there, singing the blues the way only a Brisbane boy can.

Watch out for the David McCormack Retrospective featuring songs from 1990 to 2008 including songs from the Cassingle in October.

Friday July 18th - The Brass Monkey, Cronulla

Tickets from the venue 02 9544 3844


Sunday July 20th - The Heritage Hotel, Wollongong

Tickets from the venue 02 4284 5884



Friday July 25th The Troubadour, Brisbane

Tickets from Oztix or 1300 762 545



Saturday July 26th - Joe's Waterhole, Eumundi
Tickets from the venue 07 5442 814 and Backbeat 07 5479 5115
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Tamam Shud

July 16th 2008 05:37
Tamam Shud



Goolutionites and the Real People

The words tamam shud are taken from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and they mean: the very end. The band Tamam Shud were gigging around the East coast of Australia in the 1960’s and their music was heavily supported by film maker Paul Witzig who used much of their work in his ground breaking surf movie Evolution and others.



Newly released on CD for the first time Goolutionites and the Real People includes eight bonus tracks including tracks from the surf movie Morning of the Earth and a selection of live recordings from a gig at the Regent Theatre, South Yarra 1971.

The album is fresh and funky in so many ways. The line up over their relatively short life was: Lindsay Bjerre [gtr,vcls] 1967-72, Peter Barron [bs] 1967-72, Dannie Davidson [dr] 1967-70, Larry Duryea (aka Larry Taylor) [congas], Tim Gaze [gtr, vcls] 1970-2, Bobby Gebert [kbds] 1971, Richard Lockwood [sax, flute, clarinet] 1972, Nigel Macara [dr] 1970-72, Kevin Sinnott [dr] 1970, Kevin Stevenson [reeds] 1970, Alex 'Zac' Zytnic [gtr] 1967-70.

The band has obviously been influenced by 60’s musicians Jimi Hendrix, Cream, The Doors and the whole San Francisco movement that discovered and popularized LSD, and their cover notes to this brilliant album aren’t afraid of saying so. Just one 76 minute session listening to Goolutionites and the Real People is likely to make you feel like you’re there, off your face and ready to hit the Uni Bar. It’s down right excellent!

Young cynics may hear it as music to destroy the planet by, but that’s not really the case. Australian youngsters in the 60’s and 70’s were just starting to protest against a lot of the darker things becoming obvious, including war, old growth forests, over population, the slaughter of whales and the mining of uranium… there were plenty of issues to protest against and a great willingness to create Australian experiences that were just as real and valid to the individual as the American or UK experience – thus – music that is honestly Australian but sounds like so many bands from far away in space and time. The lyrics are just as cutting now as they may have been back in the day – possibly more so because in so many ways this is a time capsule for Australian kids particularly to get a grip on what has come before them.



With so much diversity on the Australian music front these days, and the enormous influence of our multicultural society has had on the breaking out of new sounds it’s great to go back and hear something like this.

I highly recommend it to anyone who likes funky acid-rock with an authentic retro feel to it. One of the slickest and entertaining albums to come out for some time, Goolutionites and the Real People is a cracker!
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Label in the Petri dish

July 9th 2008 00:19
Low Transit Industries
Distributed and manufactured by Inertia

Over all there’s an enjoyably gritty quality to plenty of this. It’s material from the darker side as much as the everyman position. Where it’s a fresh blossoming party sound full of fun and pretty colors it bounces along as well as anyone could on a flipsy dance floor of adventure.

Thalia Zedek's Adelaide show was picked as The Wire magazine’s top 60 Greatest Shows Ever! Talia has also played with with the likes of THE DEVASTATIONS, DINOSAUR JR. & MICK HARVEY. What more needs to be said?

Both Okkervil River and Sharko are acquired tastes, both compelling bands that will draw you in, be warned, this is like adopting a puppy. You’ll feel responsible for going out and keeping an eye if not only an ear on these two bands.

Goldrush is my personal favorite. I think I've enjoyed The Heart Is The Place more for it's fabulous arrangements and optimistic sheen; oh and the lyrics of the songs make me feel very well indeed.





Fonda 500 are a very up beat band giving the pulsing masses what they want in Europe and evidently cutting their teeth on 2 UK stadium tours as a support act; good work, good clean pop sound, energetic and party fun feeling.

Trans Am are a curiously hard sounding outfit shrouded in mystery, not the least due to the title of their Australian Only output Sex Change. Look out for Trans Am on tour. They’re bound to trail the country.

The Mendoza Line is a ten album strong, far reaching work out. New album 30 Year Low is also their last album and marks the end of band-mates Tim Bracy and Shannon McArdle’s marriage and artistic collaboration in the band. It’s a sweet sweet sound that puts me hovering somewhere over the wide plains where the musical accompaniment is excellent, as it is here.

Subaudible Hum have some great albums out; their rising harmonic sound combines some remarkable sound with dramatic classical moments feeling something like being swept away on a grand narrative of the airwaves.



New Pants, the biggest pop export to come out of China for ever is worth having a listen to. Low Transit Industries have been around for a few years and they've a brilliant track record of delivering excellent music from all over the world. Stuff that adds things like pep and zip and wow back into a life led surrounded by rather droll musak a lot of the time.

David Jobling
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