Bellyache Ben & the Steamgrass Boys
If you like ol timey music, you should check out Bellyache Ben and the Steamgrass Boys. They do a version of ‘Oh Death’ that I’d DJ at a blues dancing event fo SHO.
You’ve Got to Give me Some – Cecile McLorin Salvant
I’m preparing for DJing a blues party on Australia Day eve, and I’ve hit a clump of Cecile McLorin Salvant. More please.
January round up
(photo of Mary Lou Williams, extremely awesome woman pianist, who fucking PWND the fairly dick-centred boogiewoogie piano world, from here. She was all about OWNING the discourse.)
I’m back running, desperate to get some serious exercise during the christmas dancing drought. So far it’s going well, except today I did run [...]
Another Speakeasy is planned for the late night part of the Sydney Festival First Night. It’ll be at the Crossover studios, begin at 11pm and run til late. It’s $10 entry donation to cover costs (this is a nonprofit party rather than a profit-making event) and you’ll get lots of fun music and delicious [...]
You know what DJing from an ipad says? It says that “I know my music so well I don’t need to preview.” It says “This is my essential stuff; my other music is in my desktop.” It says “I’m a traveling ninja, so alls I needs this little thing”. It says “Ten fingers? I only [...]
Bizarrely, they came from this Preservation Hall Jazz Band album: “Preservation: An album benefitting Preservation Hall and the Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program”. It’s a great album, and I had it on my ‘must play’ list for the weekend. I was pretty sure no one else would be DJing from it – [...]
Fuck, look, I thought this thing would blow over. But it hasn’t.
The Two Man Gentlemen Band – Gentle Stomp from Live & Breathing on Vimeo.
I AM SO CRAZY FANSQUEE ABOUT THE TWO MAN GENTLEMEN BAND!!! If I could remember who it was who first linked em up on [...]
Moonstruck
Last night there was a lunar eclipse, and I was up at midnight to see it. It was an amazing thing, but now I am feeling the late night in my bones.
I’m ‘preparing’ for another Speakeasy (10:30pm next Friday night, Crossover studio, 22 Golburn St, Sydney), when I should really be lying on [...]
MLX squee
I’m trying and trying to think of a way to talk about MLX. But I can’t. I’m sorry, I’m getting emotional. Mostly because you can’t hug every DJ. No matter how much you love them.
Right here, I need to make clear my association with the Melbourne Lindy Exchange. I was involved [...]
