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That said, what a gorgeous and unusual cover! Mick Turner, may you never put down your paintbrush. Another beautiful selection of tunes from The Dirty Three once again complimented by the artists deft touch for their cover graphics.

Oh Lisa! You never let me down with you cover designs! Another very beautiful cohesive package design from the lovely songstress together with another batch of wonderful music.

So there you have it, feel free to suggest any covers that you may have seen that you think deserve to be on the list. Also, any updates on missing design credits would also be greatly appreciated! It took some searching and as usual. My thoughts on Ben Lee are pretty well documented on this blog, and this was a particularly awful release music wise, even by his recent standards.

Maybe he should consider a change of career? Musically, just a beautiful album. This album cover really jumped out at me visually when I first happened upon it at the local JB hi-fi.

Beautifully and playfully illustrated with sympathetic hand drawn type, this is a winner all around. Well played Alter. Everything they released this year had a fantastic cover of course, this being a particular standout. A striking cover image can sometimes say it all for an album without the need of type to accompany it. Beautifully imagined and photographed album cover by ex-Adelaidian Spencer Harrison , one of the best cover designs of the year in my humble opinion.

The beautiful illustrative stylings of James Gulliver Hancock once again grace a Josh Pyke album cover, how can you go wrong? Designer Christopher Doyle has realised the identity of the Jezabels across all their visual media with beautifully conceptual photography and a restrained typographic approach, this album cover being no exception.

I like the use of typography in the left hand circle as well. Beautiful and arresting photography and technique with a refined use of typography. Hands down, my favourite Australian album cover of the year An already exquisite record complimented by this beautifully weird, funny and still somehow haunting cover picture with some nice handwritten type to sweeten it even further. So there you have it, another year wrapped up — Agree?

Any glaring omissions? Leave a comment and let me know. Union Down Under. He was quick to join the workforce by gaining full-time employment at just nine years of age, working hour weeks delivering newspapers— the job he held while attending both, Clontarf Beach Primary School, and Clontarf Beach State High School.

Robert is 3rd row from back, second on the right. For full size image click here. Robert started his rugby league career in , representing his school, club, and district— playing up to three games per week.

He captained his primary and high school teams. Robert completed a boiler making and welding apprenticeship and worked in several mines in Saraji, Dampier and Darwin.

He then lived in Cairns and Tablelands in , bought a truck and worked in various jobs in painting, welding, fruit picking, building, and timber work. As a guitarist, singer and songwriter, Robert has done many radio interviews and his music has been aired by Alan Jones 2GB Sydney , 3AA Brisbane, Brisbane radio, as well as various community radio broadcasts.

Robert with his bass guitar in , playing for the Country Graveyard. Check out the Paisley shirt and the Vase amplifier. At years-of-age, Robert was already heavily involved in the Redcliffe music scene performing with three local bands. This led to forming the Brisbane based band The Country Graveyard — a musical group who was very well received. Following their Easybeats opening, The Country Graveyard were approached by an up and coming entertainment executive who offered his support of the band.

The band broke up in He has penned many songs about the game he loves. Until the crisis came about there were Festivals, however mostly Folk and Blues Festivals. To have a Festival with Australian Artists that actually made the Top 40! This point in fact is akin to the current Mining Resources conundrum. When are we going to realise that Australia is being bled dry by Overseas intervention in our Society.

Which culturally is not a good thing as other Sociological influences permeate and destroy our unique Australian Identity. So this is where we are at … what can we do about it? Although it would be nice to be recognised for your talent, particularly within your own Country. The only way to make any money from their Music currently is through merchandise. To make money from merchandise though is not an easy task.

Touring is not an easy job either and, it is a great expense. Sleep becomes a luxury. It was great to see so much Talent in a relatively healthy Live Music Scene. With the exception of the odd Music Festival or the very occasional Tour. At the same time damaging our Cultural musical identity. They also sign each Artist to an airtight contract and ensure them against the failure of their first release. But where can Jack Tour?

But in the meantime Jack has gone from an ultimate high … to an ultimate low!!! He is only young and such a thing is bound to be Psychologically damaging. Very few! This is because they already have a foundation laid. Each of them has a supportive Association, Federation or Organisation in each State. They never come together to look at the middle ground. It can get very Political at times. They have very little time to devote to a Committee, especially if they are Touring.

Some of them are very disreputable and are only there to feather their own pocket. They do not take their percentage out 1st … the promoter is the last person to be paid! Do not fall for that trick as what you get paid for your event is genrally a larger amount than what it is after everyone involved is paid.

If a promoter is doing this to you … get rid of them and find someone reputable! They can do this by asking themselves if they would do it. It should also Foster and Mentor new talent. So why am I writing such a long winded article? I have an idea to take back what we have lost. Reach out to each other State to State. If we have to start lower it might be precarious. This is seriously one of the albums that gives me tingles. Warm lovely nostalgic tingles. Although the original is epic enough 15mins anyone?!

Two of my fave bands, together at last. It seemed as though Cutters went through a big massive remix phase where they dished out some absolutely killer remixes — think Kaiser Chiefs, The Presets, Mercy Arms, The Juan Maclean.

Make sure you check this one out. The drop at is big — this is a 7min remix journey of percussive house proportions. I am a little excited. I also live in Melbourne. And this is a two week festival. That should be really really really great and am psyched. But, yes. Am still friggin happy to be heading up. The Opera House is an amazing venue, so this should be a goodun!! Bag Raiders — Sunlight Right click, save as. Big act would definitely have to be Odd Future. Excitement is a bit of an understatement.

It seems every site under the sun are saying that they got there first. I think the real winner here is the inner detective in all of us. This stuff is supes sweet and is local too Melbourne boys represent.

The band is Dancing Heals. Dancing Heals — Diamonds. I got there. Took me ages, but I got there. Laneway Festival last weekend was killer. The venue is amazingo, and man, that lineup…jeepers. When I reviewed last years, I wrote something along the lines of it being a music bloggers wet dream.

The first band we saw was The Holidays. We actually missed Buchanan due to the whole floods thing that happened last weekend. Took us a little longer to get to the venue. If these guys were to play in a few years time at Laneway, I think their set would be mid afternoon, not one of the openers. Band on ze rise me thinks. Same with Holidays, I reckon these guys will be closing a stage in a few years time. But man, they do rock it live.

Definitely a band that will be up there with Cutters and Juggers as big amazing Aussie bands doing big amazing things os. PVT were good. But I dunno, there seemed to be something lacking from their set. I like them, but to be honest, I only have their last album. They were good, but yeah, something lacking. We left these guys and saw a tiny bit of Jenny and Johnny.

These guys were pretty great. Indie guitar pop lovey dovey shit. Then we saw Beach House. To say that they were good, well, man. They were in my top three of the day, easily. Maybe 2nd best. Victoria is one of those indie goddess babes that you only think about seeing live. Teen Dream was massive here — made 2 on my albums list. Everything about them was great. Tracks like Zebra and Norway definitely helped the swooning. After Beach House, things got interesting.

The intention was to go an check out Blonde Redhead , but they had swapped spots with Holy Fuck. So we decided to stay at this stage and check out Two Door Cinema Club.

That, and I was sceptical about them live. I was mistaken though. After a massive wait 40mins and missing out on Holy Fuck and seeing the crowd go crazy apeshit, they actually pulled it off damn well. It still lacked something for me though. But that probably says more about my music snobbery than anything else. Next up was Yeasayer. We were towards the back for these guys, so I think I missed out on the best parts, but tracks like O.

Then it was off to check out Blonde Redhead in their later timeslot. These guys were easily the surprise of the day. I knew they had good songs, but wow. Saturday 31 July Sunday 1 August Monday 2 August Tuesday 3 August Wednesday 4 August Thursday 5 August Friday 6 August Saturday 7 August Sunday 8 August Monday 9 August Tuesday 10 August Wednesday 11 August Thursday 12 August Friday 13 August Saturday 14 August Sunday 15 August Monday 16 August Tuesday 17 August Wednesday 18 August Thursday 19 August Friday 20 August Saturday 21 August Sunday 22 August Monday 23 August Tuesday 24 August Wednesday 25 August Thursday 26 August Friday 27 August Saturday 28 August Sunday 29 August Monday 30 August Tuesday 31 August Wednesday 1 September Thursday 2 September Friday 3 September Saturday 4 September Sunday 5 September Monday 6 September Tuesday 7 September Wednesday 8 September Thursday 9 September Friday 10 September Saturday 11 September Sunday 12 September Monday 13 September Tuesday 14 September Wednesday 15 September Thursday 16 September Friday 17 September Saturday 18 September Sunday 19 September Monday 20 September Tuesday 21 September Wednesday 22 September Thursday 23 September Friday 24 September Saturday 25 September