Transport – ‘Stone Hearted’

Here’s the power of a good song at work.  I know nothing about Brisbane’s Transport (aside from the fact that they’re from Brisbane) but when I heard their brand new single ‘Stone Hearted’ I felt compelled to blog.  It’s just so damn catchy! It’s 3 minutes of power pop/rock glory.

OK,here’s what I actually know (well, actually just researched in the past 5 minutes) – there’s three guys who make up Transport.  They formed in 2002 and in 2003 won the Australian National Campus Band Competition (basically, all the universities in Australia have band comps, the winners go to the next stage and so on and so forth until there’s the big national competition… you get the idea, like a rock pyramid scheme really…)  They’ve been kicking around the live scene, getting trashed on radio and yeah… that’s about all I know.  They’ve just finished the tour in support of the release of ‘Stone Hearted’ and they’ve got over 30 000 hits on their MySpace.  Check it out!

http://www.yetanotherband.com
http://www.myspace.com/transportmusic

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Along with performances at the 2006 ARIA Awards event from Silverchair, The Veronicas, Wolfmother, Youth Group, HIlltop Hoods and Human Nature – and possibly even more – Bernard Fanning, of Powderfinger fame, performed ‘Watch Over Me’, a song from his debut solo album Tea & Sympathy, which won Album of the Year at the ARIA Awards on Sunday night.

I said I’d post something from the awards, and here it is, performed with a pregnant Clare Bowditch and country star Kasey Chambers.

Previous posts: ARIA Awards 2006 Wrap-up, Clare Bowditch

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The Cops – ‘Call Me Anytime’

Ahh, the trials and tribulations of being in a band. The Cops hit the scene in late 2003, capitalising on the burgeoning success of the Sydney indie scene, as well as the resurgence of the old-school rock sound, and contemporaries such as Jet and Wolfmother were also being to grow. Whilst The Cops had a lot of success on the live circuit, playing most major festivals in Australia, the band never reeached the heights of some of the other bands in the scene. They got some fairly positive reviews of their debut LP Stomp on Tripwires, which got plenty of airplay on Triple J, but soon the band was gone, and disappeared from people’s minds.

It was only a few months ago that the band resurfaced sans 3 original members. Only vocalist/guitarist Simon Carter and bassist Rebecca Darwon remain from The Cops’ original incarnation, and they’ve returned with the rather infectious tune, ‘Call Me Anytime’. The lyrics are fairly poor but it’s still catchy as hell. I was never a fan of The Cops’ previous material, and there’s a good chance I won’t be a fan of their new stuff either, but I gotta hand it to them for writing this ditty. It’s available on a brand new EP entitled 80 In The Shade which will be out this week in Australia. You’ll be singing this one for hours!

http://www.thecops.com.au
http://www.myspace.com/copsaustralia

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