There are officially only 23 more weeks until Christmas. 166 days. Scary, right? We thought so, too. It's never too early to start buying Christmas presents but we both know we're going to procrastinate, so why not procrastinate by reading Second Chance Sunday?
victorians are petitioning to change their number plates to 'the live music state'
Venue owner/booker James Young and writer Kaye Blum are really keen to get the new number plates happening. Young reckons since Austin, Texas and Berlin, Germany can be stamped as music lovers, why can't Melbourne? "Melbourne needs a defining feature and our Victorian number plate is it!"
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steve bell explains why finland refunding people for bad gigs is stupid
"Assuming we appoint some team of incredible cultural Ombudsmen with pristine music taste and unflinching ingrained objectivity how do they actually adjudicate on a given gig? Do they accept anecdotal evidence, or will they be required to pore over the iPhone footage of every gig ever that one assumes is uploaded to the web after shows?"
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dylan moran thinks melbourne are quite pleased to be alternative
We had a chat to Dylan Moran, who talked a lot about how people are the same everywhere, except for a few "superficial local details" in each city. He admits he's painting the cities with a broad paintbrush though, so no need to get up in arms. Even though he's kinda right.
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there's no reason people with disability shouldn't go to gigs, so here's gig buddies
Gig Buddies, a new initiative by Assisted Community Living and sponsored by The City of Sydney, pairs people with and without a learning disability to attend live music and cultural events, like Supanova. There's no reason anyone should miss out on something they love.
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watch The cactus channel's creepy new video for 'cobaw'
The Melbourne act go wandering through a dark, shadowy forest on a road trip… and you can probably guess what happens. We wish someone had told the ten-piece what happens when you go wandering through dark places alone. Have they not seen a horror movie?
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read our interview with Laura marling — she doesn't know what the fuck she's doing
"I live in a generation of people, of 25-year-olds, who don’t know what the fuck they’re doing, and I’m just one of them,” she admits. At least she knows what she's doing music-wise. We're loving what she's doing music-wise.
