The Old and the New

Hi

Not much action for a couple of months. You can blame Chris for that – and no I’m not going into that story. It so isn’t worth the space.

But, a good week, music wise.

Thursday last week, got given some Linkin Park tickets! Well, a friend couldn’t go, so I offered to buy her tickets at a very reasonable price, and went. I wanted to see Chris Cornell mostly (I’m such a post grunge girl), but by the time I parked about a mile away from Vector arena and took the long way round the back of Parnell to get there (I’m saying it was a deliberate choice because I needed exercise, not bad directions on my part…) we’d missed him. Ah never mind.

We had tickets for the seated section, way up in the nose bleeds, but the sound and view were all good. The show was great, not too long but all the good stuff, and full of energy. There were a few quiet numbers, but for the most part if we were any closer I’d have had trouble hearing the next day. The General Admission area was packed, and looked very hot and sweaty. There was a weird little slam dancing circle going on too… It was almost like a hip hop dance off fight thing… but no fight. It was back far enough that none of the security could see it, but it looked pretty funny from our angle!

Friday, I was ill but had the need to spend a Borders gift voucher. So I now have a copy of SJDs “Songs from a Dictaphone” and the Bob Dylan sampler “Dylan”. You can’t really call Dylan a Best of, but it certainly has a very nice range of stuff and most of the really big tracks. I’m loving Tangled Up in Blue, but I have since I heard the Whitlams cover it. And To Make You Feel My Love should be played at my wedding… if I have one.

Songs from a Dictaphone is a beautiful piece of work too. Very clean and laid back electronic pop. The kind of thing I would recommend to my brother – even though he doesn’t normally like anything other than acoustic folk…. Well done SJD.

xx

CJ

Was going to JB Hi-Fi a good idea?

Finally cruised into JB in Queen Street the other day.

Yes, it reminded me of many hours spent in JB Melbourne (Elizabeth Street, right across from Melbourne Central, for those not from the town… and hence right across from my old work place). Yes I went straight to the bargain bin and picked up a lot of cheap CDs. And Yes, I put all the cheap ones back again so that I could purchase Interpol, The Eagles of Death Metal, and Mr Bungle (finally).

So pretty much exactly like every other visit I’ve ever paid to a JB.

More expensive than it should have been, less expensive than it could have been…

x

CJ

New Playlist

I’ve been working on a new playlist. Called Evil Women.

It’s actually for my friend Claudine. She had this great idea to get her girlfriends together for a celebration of womanhood. Asked everyone to bring something essentially female with them to the party – what else would I bring but music? (Or a female comedian, but I had none easily to hand… none that wouldn’t struggle, that is.)

Anyhow, so the playlist includes the following performers…

• Amy Winehouse
• Ani Di Franco
• Aretha Franklin
• Bic Runga
• Bjork
• Blondie
• Bonnie Tyler
• Cerys Mathews
• CJ Bolland
• Cobra Killer
• The Detroit Cobras
• Diana Ah Naid
• Eartha Kitt
• Elastica
• Fur Patrol
• Garbage
• The Headless Chickens
• Heart
• Imani Coppola
• Kosheen
• Kate Bush
• Kim Wilde
• Kristin Hersh
• L7
• Lamb
• Luscious Jackson
• Machine Gun Fellatio
• Mazzy Star
• Missy Elliott
• Moloko
• Ms Dynamite
• Neneh Cherry
• No Doubt
• Pat Benatar
• PJ Harvey
• Portishead
• Republica
• Rickie Lee Jones
• Ruby
• Shakespears Sister
• Sharon O’Neill
• Shona Laing
• Sisters Underground
• Skunk Anansie
• The Spazzys
• Stellar*
• Stevie Nicks
• Strawpeople
• Tadpole
• Throwing Muses
• Tori Amos
• Transvision Vamp
• Veruca Salt
• and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

I’m quite proud of the attitude of it. It’s good for Saturday night preparations…

x

CJ