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The Drones win Inaugural AMP

freewheelin3freewheelin3 Posts: 173
edited March 2006 in Other Music
This kickarse melbourne band just won what is set to become Australia's most prestigeous music prize (comparable to the mercury music prize)

Check out their album "wait long by the river and the bodies of your enemies will float by" just drudgy blues inspired, neil young tinged psychedelia...

fantastic...

if you wanna hear some, ask me.... then buy the fucking album !
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    this is great news. i nearly fell out of my bed cheering this morning.
    i can not get enough of this band. and yahoo!! for me i get to see them live tomorrow night supporting dino jnr. locust is just brilliant. makes me want to drink, georgie...

    come on aussies if you haven't got this one go get it.. NOW!!!
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  • freewheelin3freewheelin3 Posts: 173
    wow...

    someone here knows them!, id posted about them a few times and no one really bit!

    im going to that same gig at the metro, fuckin busting to get there...
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    yeah i'm busting to get there too. more excited about the drones than dino jnr.
    have a drink for me. hell have two.

    you know they're playing the annandale on the 1st of april.
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  • freewheelin3freewheelin3 Posts: 173
    ive seen the drones a couple of times, soi think im more amped for dino...

    i'll have a drink for you, but why arnt you having one...

    i dont live in sydney, so getting to heapsa gigs down there gets kinda pricey... ususally make it too 8-10 a year... (im in canberra)
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    i can drink but i choose not to because i lose control sometimes.
    and i'm thinking the drones are exactly the kind of band that could get me drunker than i want to be.
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  • freewheelin3freewheelin3 Posts: 173
    give into the drones catefrances...

    i know what you mean, i really fucked up last weekend when i got TOO drunk.. all sorted now, but it was weird with one of my friends for awhile...

    i will still be having many beers on friday night...
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    i just want a decent t shirt.


    it's just a pain in the arse walking up those stairs to the bar. and the metro is always understaffed.
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  • freewheelin3freewheelin3 Posts: 173
    cmon other music peeps..

    i will send you an mp3 of one track if you sign in this thread and ask for one...

    these guys deserve to be noticed, plus they are doing a US/Europe tour this year...
  • freewheelin3freewheelin3 Posts: 173
    cmon echoes, you have good taste...

    i rarely pimp bands on here, but seriously, so fucking good...
  • psycosmicpsycosmic Posts: 504
    never heard of the drones... but my mate used to be in a band called drone, which is exactly how they sounded, by the way...

    i will check them out...
    ~~~
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  • freewheelin3freewheelin3 Posts: 173
    recomend "sharkfin blues" or the locust...

    if you are on msn messenger, i can send it to you..

    joeboy80@hotmail.com
  • psycosmicpsycosmic Posts: 504
    freewheelin3 wrote:
    recomend "sharkfin blues" or the locust...

    if you are on msn messenger, i can send it to you..

    joeboy80@hotmail.com

    cheers, i have msn but messengers keep messing up my already messed up computer...
    but i've got those songs queued up on soulseek now...
    definitely gonna listen...
    ~~~
    Some days you wake up and sit on a park bench next to an eighty year old Russian architect, and some days you don't. I think this is my new life philosophy.

    http://epplehausradio.blogspot.com/

    pearl jam @ the astoria, london, 20/04/06
  • freewheelin3freewheelin3 Posts: 173
    sharkfin blues was probably my favourite song of last year, let me know what you reckon
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    you know i only started listening to the drones cause dave larkin from dallas crane recommended them. i will be eternally grateful to him for that.
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  • pj_zombiepj_zombie Posts: 272
    I don't know what type of music they really play but I'm interested. You can e-mail any clips or songs to me as I have more than enough room.
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    1. Ten
    2. Vs.
    3. Pearl Jam
    4. Binaural
    5. No Code
    6. Riot Act
    7. Yield
    8. Vitalogy

    Pearl Jam Song Rankings
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    1. Black
    2. Rearviewmirror
    3. Light Years
    4. Given to Fly
    5. Severed Hand
  • freewheelin3freewheelin3 Posts: 173
    gee these guys were good on friday, not as good a s a slighylt smaller club, but real good...

    dinosaur jr were pretty damn good too, the mix wasnt great from where i was... and they were damn loud, very enjoyable though...
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    yeah! i liked dino jnr more than i thought i would. though i do have this thing for lou barlow but that's another story.
    where about's were you standing joe?
    i missed half of drones set so luckily i am seeing them at the annandale. i was so pissed off. 18 days and counting.
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  • freewheelin3freewheelin3 Posts: 173
    i was on the floor for the drones, but then went write up the back for dino, because the mix is always a bit shitty in the pit of the metro..

    i was wearing a black freshjive shirt with two hands shaking...

    where were you...

    ps, and yeah, lou is the man no doubt..

    a also stood next to robbie buck for most of the gig...
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    i was on the floor for the drones.what i saw of them anyway. my left hand side of the stage. i don't remember what i was wearing but i'm sure i wa dressed somehow.
    then for dino i naturally moved across to the lou side.
    god j's a talker isn't he?;)
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  • freewheelin3freewheelin3 Posts: 173
    yeah j is a strange one.. holy god he can play the gee-tar though... that guitar rig was insane... never seen three marshall stacks for one guitarist before...

    i reckon every girl in the audience was smitten with lou, i heard him mentioned in a lot of conversations on the way out...
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    ha i was checking out the marshalls as well. in fact if i recall correctly my thought was 'check out those marshalls". it was like the berlin wall. but smaller naturally.

    oh no my interest in lou is purely professional ;)
    i'm gonna go check him out at the annandale next week. he's doing an acoustic set apparently.
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  • freewheelin3freewheelin3 Posts: 173
    yeah i would love to go to that gig, if i was from sydney i would, but it gets really expensive coming down from canberra every time...

    murph was a maniac behind the kit, they are all such great players...

    forget the swan was awesome...
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    you now that afternoon gareth and other one of the drones was in at JJJ doing an acoustic version of locust. i was so wrapped and it got me revved up for that night. pity i miss half the gig.
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  • freewheelin3freewheelin3 Posts: 173
    im trying to track down a recording of that, it was amazing...

    i was in the car driving down with mates, and we all just started going nuts after it ended...
  • pj_zombiepj_zombie Posts: 272
    Hey freewheelin', got your PM but I tried sending one and it said your box was full so I may as well do it here. My e-mail is LPzombie@hotmail.com.
    Pearl Jam Album Rankings
    ---
    1. Ten
    2. Vs.
    3. Pearl Jam
    4. Binaural
    5. No Code
    6. Riot Act
    7. Yield
    8. Vitalogy

    Pearl Jam Song Rankings
    ---
    1. Black
    2. Rearviewmirror
    3. Light Years
    4. Given to Fly
    5. Severed Hand
  • psycosmicpsycosmic Posts: 504
    freewheelin3 wrote:
    sharkfin blues was probably my favourite song of last year, let me know what you reckon

    hey, thanks for the recommendation...
    this song is pretty good...
    with the new pearl jam songs there's not as much time left for other music as usual... but sharkfin blues got PLENTY of spins, if that's any indication... i will check out their other stuff as well...
    ~~~
    Some days you wake up and sit on a park bench next to an eighty year old Russian architect, and some days you don't. I think this is my new life philosophy.

    http://epplehausradio.blogspot.com/

    pearl jam @ the astoria, london, 20/04/06
  • freewheelin3freewheelin3 Posts: 173
    sending you the song now zombie, and umm... bump...
  • samquigleysamquigley Posts: 220
    freewheelin3 wrote:
    sharkfin blues was probably my favourite song of last year, let me know what you reckon
    That was definitely the best song released last year, Australian or otherwise. It's the only song I wanted to see win the Hottest 100 and I don't think it even got a mention, did it? I saw it on the voting list but the whole voting thing seemed a bit too much like hard work last time around... probably the reason that bloody awful Bernhard Fanning song one. Don't get me wrong, I'm bang up for a bit of Powderfinger but somebody should've binned that solo album before it ever hit the airwaves.
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    bernard fanning is inoffensive. and i'd bet that things around the Js can be a little incestuous for want of a better word.
    but you listen to the drones and they demand that you listen to them. they strangle the life out of every song they do. as much as i do like bernard fanning, there's no comparison with gareth liddiard, none at all.

    on wait long by the river...besides 'locust', 'this time' gets me the most.

    well if i offer you more love sweet kind
    how could you leave the world behind
    put on your shoes, put on your coat
    you say you want the least but you take the most.


    shit those boys think like i think.
    their lyrics are just so dead on.



    next week at the annandale yeah me!!!!!!!
    and what do you know, i'm designated drinker. HAH!
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