Rocknerd

One soul less on your fiery list.

11 March, 201110 May, 2017 Record 0

Paul Harding emails to tell of his blog Perthmusic (and earlier version), a pile of unavailable CDs, records and tapes from no-longer-gigging bands of

A requiem for the Luminaire.

9 March, 201110 May, 2017 Live 0

I just returned from the last of many gigs I saw at the Luminaire, and indeed, the last ever gig there. The bands playing

Quite possibly the most horrible record of 2011.

8 March, 20119 January, 2017 Pop 0

George Michael doing a laid back MOR version of “True Faith” by New Order. Through a vocoder. While wrapped around a lamp post.

Why movies right now suck more than music.

8 March, 201112 April, 2017 Film 3

The Internet has set off a desperately-needed nuclear viral cancer bomb under the music industry. The majors are going down the tubes, the distribution

The hope of Audacity.

7 March, 20119 January, 2017 Musician 0

People seem insufficiently aware of Audacity, the open-source sound recording and editing program. This is the four-track everyone desperately wanted twenty years ago. If

When you stream, you’re streaming with piracy!

26 February, 20119 January, 2017 mp3 2

My house has teenagers in it. They are actively interested in music, read Kerrang! (which is now a land of sensitive boys with floppy

Perfect sound until next time.

23 February, 20119 January, 2017 Audio 0

Apple is in talks with the majors to finally outdo CD, with 24-bit audio downloads. Current iPods can’t play it, and lossless stereo 24/96

Even in the futurepop, nothing works.

20 February, 20113 May, 2017 Industrial, Opinion, Record, Writing 0

In the early 1990s, I tried very hard to become a serious Anthony Burgess fan. A Clockwork Orange is absolutely first-class and probably my favourite novel of all time.

However, all his other novels suck. All of them.

You can’t handle the truth.

19 February, 201119 September, 2016 Musician 3

For my birthday, my darling girlfriend just gave me some shitty, shitty eight quid laptop speakers from Curry’s, to serve as cruel and vicious

Sign up or go underground in the summer of ’81.

18 February, 201110 May, 2017 Record, Television 0

You’re young? Never got into the Australian mainstream in the ’80s when it was happening? Annoyed that most of Mushroom’s output is not available

The Campaign for Real Rock versus plastic instruments.

10 February, 20114 September, 2016 Games 0

Cry moar, n00b. Activision has cancelled the whole Guitar Hero franchise. Harmonix, creator of its main competitor Rock Band, was sold off, and MTV

If we bolt the barn door well enough, a horse is bound to show up.

2 February, 2011 mp3 0

Android phones are hugely popular, and now the most popular smartphone in the world. Google would love a music store for Android to compete

The source of the disease.

30 January, 201130 January, 2011 mp3 5

Here we see punk rocker John Robb declare it necessary to reshape the Internet to save the music industry as it was in the

How to lose four hundred kilograms.

29 January, 201129 January, 2011 Record 2

It’s been a wonderful month of house-culling. We’ve thrown out a veritable mountain of shite and regularly overfill our bins with just culls of

Headcleaner.

8 January, 201115 September, 2016 Industrial 2

This is the complete 103MB pile of stuff the industrial hideous noise band Whitehouse (founded in 1980 and, amazingly, still extant) put up on

Laura MacFarlane, Hong Kong In The Sixties, Hissing At Swans – Betsey Trotswood, Tue 7 Dec 2010

9 December, 201011 October, 2016 Indie, Live 1

The Betsey Trotswood is a tiny little pub in Farringdon that sells actual beer instead of the fizzy piss found most places basement indie

One down, three to go.

8 December, 201015 November, 2016 Industry 0

Surprised I didn’t notice this earlier. It’s not looking good for EMI. Terra Firma has discovered they paid way too much for the hulk

79 Revisited with Mindroom and Embrace The Ashes @ the Noise Bar, 2010-11-26

30 November, 201030 November, 2010 Live 1

A tribute to the bands from the period 1979-1984 known as the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), this was 79 Revisited‘s first

* Delete, non-notable terrorist. May recreate if terrorism successful.

28 November, 201015 November, 2016 Writing 0

You know how no-one you know cares about your shitty band? No-one on Wikipedia cares either.

John Peel’s Festive Sixty-Four.

24 November, 201015 November, 2016 Indie, mp3 0

Now here’s a remarkable work of cultural preservation: 64 gigabytes of Peel Sessions and shows as BitTorrent. That’s about twenty days’ music solid. You