Category Archives: music
The Hold Steady Australian tour!
Finally! After nearly three years, The Hold Steady have been announced as part of the bill for the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, held around February each year in the major capitals. This year’s line-up starts with: GIRL TALK, STEREOLAB, ARCHITECTURE … Continue reading
Now this is the sort of press I like to see
The Hold Steady get a good write-up in the Sydney Morning Herald (written by a critic that I don’t find particularly agreeable): Grand Ambitions THERE is a scurrilous line put about that music critics have always liked Elvis Costello because … Continue reading
Hold Steady pusher
So I was at the Pet of the Year party, and I got talking to a colleague of mine about music, and he asked me what I liked. And I almost completely blanked. Since my main mp3 player esentially broke … Continue reading
Where to with writing — and Hold Steady muppets
I’ve basically worked out that there’s something stopping me from writing. I’m so certain that putting the right work in there will do me so much good, but mentally there is just something wrong (no, not mental in that way … Continue reading
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Constructive Summer
“Let this be my annual remind, that we can all be something bigger”… The Hold Steady. Suddenly it appears to be Summer. Or at least a very nice Spring day. Today it ended up getting into the early 30s C, … Continue reading
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On being more of a fan
I’ve decided that I need to be more of a fan. Sure I like lots of stuff, but it’s been years since I was a real “fan”. And being a real fan isn’t just about being a passive spectator, in … Continue reading
Staying Positive
Yes, I’m listening to The Hold Steady quite a lot recently (hence the title). And there’s a lot of really depressing crap I could write about here, I really couldn’t be bothered to smother it all over my blog as … Continue reading
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I was a skeptic at first but these miracles work
It’s good to grab any moment of joy that you can find, even if it’s fleeting, and even it’s while sitting on a packed train on the way to work. I’m sitting there, listening to the new Hold Steady album, … Continue reading
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Big Hold Steady day and night
After Wednesday’s disappointment of discovering emusic was denying me “Stay Positive”, I’ve had the sudden unexpected joy of finding the CD (with three extra tracks!) at JB Hi Fi already! Picked that up today, along with the Cars soundtrack for … Continue reading