Of the excellent line-up for this year’s SoundBase festival, these ones are my favourites. All songs are originals written by the bands performing them.
David Shurr, one half of The Fruit Basket, was good for best individual performance, a prize he shared with Chris Martin ofPope George and the Cardinals. The latter let off the essential bravura landing them first prize. Ciosa Houlihan & Sherin Siew of 9 Maps (Yes, that’s 9 Maps) came in second and also walked away with best original song award for their ‘The Harder Times’. Awesome! Of Moths & Stars featuring Britons Christopher Dabbs and Nate Wisniewski had a visual presence which was just as awesome as the acoustic wall of sound they unleashed on their audience. Asked about his bionic dancing style, Nate was kind enough to share an intimate secret with me: the first 18 months of his life he spent as a plant; facing daily hardships like battling off bees and other airborne invaders. Poor thing.
PLAYLIST:
02. The Fruit Basket - Wide Awake 05. 9 Maps - The Harder Times 07. Of Moths & Stars - Never Get Old 09. Pope George and the Cardinals - We Know Better 11. FR - Change 12. Band 16 - Awesome Pipe
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Last week’s open mic was most awesome! The overall theme of the night was guitarists bailing on their singers, which meant we were blessed with lot’s and lot’s of Steve! Performances were brilliantly varied with Indian swingers, pop song mesh-ups, Zack, dedicated poetry, lot’s of inter-cultural crossovers, all culminating with Steve’s performance of an immortalised Taiwanese love song!
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DISCLAIMER: As happy as I am for recording the night, if you somehow can’t live with the idea that your children will find out that you were once talented, but instead went on to become a lawyer, drop me a line I’ll remove you from the list.
PLAYLIST:
1) Steve a) Say It Ain't So by Weezer b) One of Those Days
2) Venus and Elysia a) Un Homme by Annie Villendene b) Time After Time by Cindy Lauper c) That's What You Get by Paramore // Realize by Colbie Caillat
3) Suhani (Steve on guitar) a) I'm Yours by Jason Mraz
4) Sabutai a) Father and Son by Cat Stevens
5) Jessica a) When I See You Smile by Bic Runga
6) Darren Tseng a) Poem
7) Zach a) Housewife by Jay Brannan
8) Aqua a) One Thing at a Time
9) Geneva and Aurora a) Use Somebody by Kings of Leon b) Yellow by Coldplay
10) Nick a) Toast Poem b) America Poem
11) Hamza a) Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers
12) Hamza, Sabutai and Shakeel a) Chura liya hai tumne
13) Paul a) The Girl from Ipanema b) After we Wake up from our Dreams c) Just the Two of Us by Bill Withers
14) Julianne a) A Little Steadier b) The Privilege of Giving Life to Short-lived Things
15) Sherin a) Lonelily by Damien Rice b) A Lack Of Color by Death Cab for Cutie
Homebrew robot brewing coffee with some external assistance. The amount of time put into both desiging the figure and programming the movements must have been astounding.
