This Your Take group are the best of the flock of Shoot the Player imitators out on the internet at the moment. If you don’t like Birds of Tokyo, at least appreciate how good the production of this video is.

Producer / Sound Recordist – Sam Wright
Director / Camera / Editor – Kieran Ellis-Jones
Assistant Producer / Journalist – Ariana Woods

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New clip for the second single from the follow up to Postcards. If chicks, whipped cream and exploding stuff (via. El Guincho’s Bombay) pique your interest, this is probably your thing. It’s also a good tune. From Rhett Wade-Ferrell and the fellas at Moopjaw.

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One of the bands currently rising to the top of the scene in Brisbane/Waterworld (… too soon.. or late?), is sextet Indie kids Charlie Mayfair. Fresh from their appearance at le Sunset Sounds, Charlie Mayfair are combining forces with Phatchance and Coptic Soldier to hit Sydney for a residency at Oxford Arts on Feb 11th, 18th, and 25th. FOR FREE!!!

So far the band have released one mighty impressive EP, an uber stylish video for ‘If I Fell Down’, and also a recent collaboration with Phatchance which received some highly coveted J play.

Did I mention it was free? … and nothing tastes better than free. Catch ya there.

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This is gorgeous. I’d always written this band off as part of the West End hippy scene that I’d lost interest in not long after I stopped smoking weed and realised that a lot of hippies are militants in disguise with shit taste in music.
Sure, they might have started out in that scene,  but they’re rising above it.

Their Scissors EP is out through Creative Vibes on February 18.

www.laneous.com.au

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He’s so lovely. Check out his STP stint or visit his website.

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Jack Flash – “Rebel’s Revenge” (mp3)

When I took a temporary job in Toowoomba back in October, I did so with the mindset that it would only be for a couple of months, and that I could go back to Brisbane for gigs every weekend if I wanted to.

The temporary job led me to a permanent one and four months on, I’m settled in and starting to explore the city’s music scene. Sure, there are a lot of dreadful covers bands and a few originals bands that are inexplicably worse, but there is some cool quirky stuff going on.

Jack Flash are a Toowoomba folk-punk band for people who like Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly and drinking lots of home brew. I find bands like this more “punk” than certain bands being given a leg-up by the national broadcaster’s youth arm and hell, I’d prefer to get my Australiana this way than being forced to listen to John Williamson drawl his way through True Blue.

They supported Defiance, Ohio earlier on this week. Stalk them on Facebook.

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