Month: June 2018

Snap Scene

Snap Scene: THEORY (of a Deadman) – Prince Bandroom – 26th June 2018

June 29, 2018 Mary Boukouvalas
“Complacency is such a disease when you’re in a band,” says Tyler Connolly, singer and guitarist for Vancouver, Canada’s THEORY (Of A Deadman). “People are so afraid to progress, but you have to change—you can’t just write the same song over and over. So when I saw where this record was going, I said to the other guys, ‘We’re in a car and it’s going off a cliff. Do you want to jump out or ride it to the bottom?’’

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Snap Scene

Snap Scene: Bad Moon Born – Prince Bandroom – 26th June 2018

June 29, 2018 Mary Boukouvalas
Hailing from the Sydney rock scene, Bad Moon Born are an undeniably talented five-piece rock band with a captivating sound that is self-described as “girth rock”. They are a new wave of hard rock, with influences from Guns ‘N’ Roses, Alter Bridge, Avenged Sevenfold and Audioslave.

Their debut EP, Chemical Lullabies, has received positive reviews and had tracks added to rotation on the largest rock stations in New Zealand and Australia, gaining traction both nationally and internationally.

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Snap Scene

Snap Scene: Chasing Lana – Prince Bandroom – 26th June 2018

June 29, 2018 Mary Boukouvalas
Chasing Lana are known for their raw and grungy sound, with loud, aggressive style mix, powerful melodic guitar’s, dynamic and solid rhythm sections and catchy vocal chorus’s.
When you see Chasing Lana play live, what you see is what you get. No fancy gimmicks or tricks, no computer generated effects, just a pure raw sound.
The band has two huge notable International supports now under their belts with P.O.D and Saliva and multiple successful headlining show’s around Australia in support of their E.P, Suffocate / Medicate’.

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Review Scene

Review Scene: Paul Capsis – Memo Music Hall, 23rd June 2018

June 28, 2018 Karen Pepper
What a talent Paul Capsis is. Within the confines of one season you might catch him in a cabaret, on the box in an award-winning movie or like us, singing his heart out in one of Melbourne’s best venues. Who could fail to find intrigue in seeing and hearing Capsis performing some of his most loved songs? Beginning with the Skyhooks ‘Ego is not a dirty word’ then moving into a synthesis of the Eurythmics ‘Sweet Dreams’ and The Doors ‘People are strange’, we immediately know that while the songs might be as comfortable as our old flannelette pyjamas, the execution of them would leave us gasping.

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Snap Scene

Snap Scene: In Oakleigh Tonight with Deborah Conway & Ash Naylor, Caravan Music CLub. 21st June 2018

June 27, 2018 Mandy Hall
Host RRR’s Jon von Goes and the IOT house band were joined by guests Deborah Conway and Ash Naylor (Even).

lt’s like being at home watching telly when there were 4 channels and everything was live. Singing, dancing, interviews, a desk, a couch, a house band, a house poet, a barrel, a wheel, prizes, mall talk, local legends, big names, small names, dinner, show. All in the comfort of the caravan music club where drinks are still reasonably inexpensive.

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Star Scene

Star Scene: Jeff Martin

June 27, 2018 Mandy Hall
Jeff Martin’s scene is cooking. He says – I love cooking food here at our house. There’s a different part of the world being cooked in this kitchen every night. My scene is obviously consumed by my music, but the love of my wife and my children.

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Food & Lifestyle Scene

Recipe Scene: Chocolate Chip Banana Cake

June 27, 2018 Kate Delbridge
This recipe is from Bill Granger’s cookbook Bill’s Food. He calls it choc chip banana bread but to me it is most definitely a cake. A delicious cake that smells divine while it’s cooking and tastes absolutory sensational. The version here is slightly healthier than the one in the book. I’ve replaced the white flour with wholemeal flour, reduced the sugar a bit and switched out the milk choc chips for dark. I usually make this in two bar tins so I have a cake for us and one to give away. However usually the kids insist we keep them both.

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Q&A Scene

Q&A Scene: Paul Capsis

June 23, 2018 Mandy Hall
Fresh from crawling out of the ancient skin of Quentin Crisp, multi-award winning Australian performer Paul Capsis returns to what he loves doing best singing tunes in an exclusive three-night season at MEMO Music Hall St Kilda.

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