‘Live and Honest’ is a new little segment here on Dark Cafe Daze and is effectively the culmination of my many hours crawling online video sites for rare live videos of oft neglected artists.
Vienna Teng
“I’ve come home, even though I’ve never had so far to go…”
The first of these, this week, comes from Vienna Teng [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Live and Honest: Vienna Teng + Abra Moore
Posted in live and honest, tagged abra moore, vienna teng on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dusting Off: Red Ghost – Brittle Times EP
Posted in dusting off, tagged red ghost on August 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Red Ghost (aka Rosa Agostino) is a Sydney-based artist who happened to put out one of 2007’s unheralded gems.
Largely guitar based, this lo-fi EP, Brittle Times, inhabits the same dark cloud as Cat Power and PJ Harvey. While not yet as wry a lyricist as either of the above, she nonetheless creates a distinct ‘I’m [...]
One of us has changed: Ivy York
Posted in quick shots, tagged ivy york on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the stranger parts of my personality is my ability to know obscure facts about former pop stars.
Does everyone remember Aleesha Rome? No? See clip below.
What then, you might ask, is she doing with herself these days?
As expected, she is in a Bollywood-inspired indie-country London band called Ivy York. The [...]
Album Review: Lisa Mitchell – Wonder
Posted in album review, tagged coin laundry, lisa mitchell, neopolitan dreams, wonder on August 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I’ll lay it bare from the outset: I do not have a history of love for Lisa Mitchell. Mark Holden was obsessed with her on that talent show but I, myself, didn’t quite get it.
Post-Idol, however, that slowly began to change. Her first EP, Said One to the Other, was nice enough – yet it [...]
Music Video Thursday: Kate Miller-Heidke – The Last Day On Earth
Posted in video fun, tagged kate miller-heidke on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The best song from Kate Miller-Heidke’s ‘Curiouser’ album now has a lovely (if not slightly heartwrenching) video. Forget any Neighbours preconceptions: this song was brilliant long before Steph Scully cried a lot. The “in my head…” lyrical refrain is one of the best of the year, too.
She’s Always A Woman: My five most important female-fronted tracks.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged billie holiday, hottest 100 women, joni mitchell, patty griffin, pj harvey, this mortal coil on August 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I have been meaning to cast my vote in the Hottest 100 Women poll (on Twitter and Facebook) for some time now, yet, as expected, have been stuck in periods of intense deliberation. My love of female musicianship (particularly lyrically and vocally) is well known, so to narrow this list down to something tangible is [...]
