Fasterlouder Live
Part of Fasterlouder’s Live initiative is to stage free live gigs around the country. I helped out and shot the Melbourne one last night with a decent line-up including Rocket Science, Children Collide, Shooting At Unarmed Men and Jarvis. Crowds were good, bands were rockin’ and everyone seemed to have a lot of fun. More photos over at flickr (and Fasterlouder shortly)
Liam Finn
Talented musician is young Liam. He played the guitar, drums, an ipod, various pedals and was joined by fellow female musician EJ to make his sounds come to life last night at a sold out solo gig at the East Brunswick Club. He was there to promote his new solo CD ‘I’ll Be Lightning’ out within the next two weeks here in Australia.
He played most of the tracks off the new album but it was his improvisation that had me really impressed. He’s definitely turning into a more diverse musician while still maintaining signature riffs and sounds. I’d love to see him play with a band of musicians perhaps on the same page as Okkervil River, Guillemots, or even Calexico. Not to say his band Betchadupa aren’t diverse or decent but I think it would prove interesting nevertheless.
Beowulf
Okay well as much as I disliked 300 and it’s visual style, I’m keen on the Robert Zemeckis directed, Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman written big-screen adaptation of the ultra-violent poem Beowulf. The talent involved already has me excited and I’m keen to see how the “photorealistic” performance capture works. Part of me would have preferred a non-computer animated version but Zemeckis loves to push the filmmaking abilities and for the most part, he succeeds with every genre he attempts so I’m confident this one will be exciting. The LA Times has something to say about the project here. Fingers crossed an unrated version eventually comes out. Also be sure to see this one at an IMAX 3D cinema for the best experience.
The film features the voices and ‘performances’ of Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright Penn, Alison Lohman, John Malkovich, Crispin Glover, Brendan Gleeson and Angelina Jolie and should be out here in Australia on November 29th.
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Hooverdust is a pop culture blog designed and developed by James Sann. I cover a range of topics such as Film, Music, TV, Photography, Design and teh internets.
Based in Melbourne and Bendigo, Australia, in my professional life, I am a freelance multimedia designer, photographer and a part-time University lecturer & tutor.
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