Singing The Licks
"A lot of [the lyrics] come from personal experiences. I had written a whole lot of songs that maybe were kind of story-based and sometimes I’d bent the truth to make the story more compelling."
Festival Of The Sun
Port Macquarie NSW
,
14/12/2012
— 15/12/2012
Night event, , 18+
Lineup
Kimbra, Dead Letter Circus, Hermitude, The Datsuns, Busby Marou, Husky, DZ Deathrays, The Snowdroppers, The Cairos, Over-Reactor, Jackson Firebird, Nat Col & The Kings, Tin Sparrow, Dirty Little Rebels, The Mornings, Joe Robinson, Siskin River, The Widowbirds, Geoff Turnball, Minnie Marks , Dirty Cash DJs, ...more to be announced
Fanciful Beast
"If an EP is testing out a sound, then a single is like a whim – we just went in a direction to see how we liked it, and I think there are definitely some things we’ll want to change in the future…"
Taste Test: Husky Gawenda
Husky Gawenda tells us about some of his favourite things.
In The Ghetto
“Oscar Wilde said it best – if you want to tell the truth, make it funny, or they’ll kill you,”
Share The Music
With an ARIA and the top song prize for both the Vanda & Young and the International Songwriting Competition amongst a long list of accolades to come from debut record Vows, Kimbra was doing just fine before Gotye came along. Tyler McLoughlan quizzes the international starlet on how life is on the other side of Somebody That I Used To Know.
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