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  • You're Not What I'm Looking For - Flowers for Jayne (Glowing Ember Records)

    So what is it? "You're Not What I'm Looking For" is classic tough power pop with a dead-set groove you can light a fire with.

    So. I know nothing about Flowers from Jayne except the name and the members have "form", as The Truth newspaper used to say of "colourful racing identities". Lead guitarist Jayne Murphy played in the Lime Spiders (presumably there are one or two similarly "colourful" stories to be told there), bass player Bill Gibson is a familiar figure from The Eastern Dark, and drummer Jess Ciampa can boast being in the Jeff Duff Band and Monsieur Camembert. 

    These folks know what they're doing.

  • angry bob metroAngry Andrson pontificates and Bob Spencer enjoys it. Shona Ross photo.  

    Rose Tattoo
    Hard-Ons
    Metro Theatre, Sydney
    Friday, March 29 2019

    Photos by Shona Ross

    There were plenty of people giving plenty of reasons why people should not go to this gig. The announcement that Rose Tattoo would team with the Hard-Ons for a the national "Still Never Too Loud" tour caused some people to lose their shit online - and not in a good way. More on that soon.

    The more mundane reasons were timing (“it’s a Friday night in Sydney after a long working week, maaaaan”), the venue (“the sound at The Metro is sooooo dodgy”) to ignorance (“I never heard that was on”) so most of it was nothing unexpected. Another apathetic night in the Harbour City.

    Then there was The Angry Issue.