Arun Kendall, Author at Backseat Mafia

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New Track and Tour News: The Church – Another Century

One of Australia’s living legends and Backseat Mafia’s favourite antipodean exports, The Church, have just released their new single “Another Century”. This follows very closely (in relative terms) their much…

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Live: Einstürzende Neubauten – Dark Mofo Festival , Hobart, Tasmania, 17 June 2017

The last time I saw Blixa Bargeld, the lead singer of Einstürzende Neubauten (literal translation “Falling New Buildings), he was moonlighting with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He was…

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Track: Hatchie -Try

A gorgeous portion of shimmering, melancholic summer has just come out of Brisbane, Australia in the form of “Try, the debut single from local Hatchie, the project of Harriette Pilbeam.…

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EP and Interview: Stingy Brim

One of Backseat Mafia’s favourite bands from New Zealand is Modern Chair– a collaboration between two veterans of the NZ music scene, Andrew Thorne and Wayne Bell. Modern Chair can…

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Live: Mogwai – Dark Mofo Festival, Hobart Tasmania, 10 June 2017

There was a full moon, it was bitingly cold, there was siren-singing over loudspeakers at dusk with weird lights on the horizon across Hobart, the town at the edge of…

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Live Review: The Underground Lovers, Northcote Social Club 12.05.17 Plus Gallery

Deep in the heartland of the (apparently) hipsterville suburb of Northcote in Melbourne and the hometown of the Underground Lovers: there couldn’t be a better place to witness the launch…

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Track: The National – The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness, plus Album /Tour news

Following some mysterious posts on their social networks, The National have just announced a new album – their seventh studio album – entitled “Sleep Well Beast”, due out on 8…

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EP Review: The Dollar Bill Murrays – Always On

The Brisbane quartet, The Dollar Bill Murrays, may have a quaintly amusing moniker but on the strength of this EP, they are not here just for fun. This is a…

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Live Review: The All Seeing Hand at Schmørgåsbaag, Hobart, Sunday, 23 April 2017

In the early evening on a Sunday at the very edge of the world, a fitting place to witness an extraordinary performance from New Zealand band The All Seeing Hand.…

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Track – Velvet Flare – Animal

Straight out of Brisbane and seemingly via the tenements of London comes Velvet Flare with “Animal”, a visceral, angry stab of glam rock that has all the hallmarks of an…

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