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Snowman – We Are The Plague

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The 2008 Melbourne Film Festival has a music documentaries program called Backbeat, there are some very interesting features like Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story and The Night James Brown Saved Boston. Most of them are foreign documentaries, why is this I’m not sure. I guess we hear about local acts enough to not want watch a whole documentary of it. But there is a screening of local music videos called Orbit that looks interesting. I’ll unashamedly admit that it’s also a good source of content for this blog, so for the next couple of weeks we’ll feature some of the music videos here, including some artists we weren’t aware before, like the intriguing sounding All India Radio.

www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au

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ted&francis – ‘erlend’

It seems that the French isn’t sick of nu-wave/electro/rave yet because the Pedestrian.tv guys announced that the Kitsune label has just signed Sydney unknowns ted&francis for an album. I wonder if by the time they get their LP ready everyone will be over this sound.

www.myspace.com/tedandfrancis

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Ellen Kibble – ‘Bridge Song’

I was catching up with Sui Zhen who was in Melbourne for a few performances. She had Sunday afternoon slot at the Empress in Fitzroy and I arrived early enough to catch Ellen opening the proceedings. Her voice was just perfect for an easy afternoon day at the pub, so full of character and pleasing to the ears. She somewhat reminds me of Laura Marling. Talking to her after the show she told me that she hasn’t really been gigging for about 6 months and is only doing every now and then. I hope she picks it up a bit more because with the right songs she can really make some headway into this scene.

www.myspace.com/ellenkibble

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Gin Wigmore – ‘Stealing Happiness’

Couple weeks ago I saw Gin performed a very short media showcase, she was very down to earth and her stage demeanor was very far from the image that I had built based on her voice. Her manager said she’s steering away from the nu-soul angle which is a good move cos everyone will probably get tired of that soon. You can download this track for free from her website once you register your email. According to her site John Butler plays ukulele on one of her songs, and another whothehell.net favourite Pnau is planning on working with her as well, exciting!

www.ginwigmore.com.au/ecard/

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