Seafood and Wine (and music)

I love food. And wine. I especially love seafood. All of this together means I was probably going to go to the Caxton Street Seafood and Wine Festival. But then, they decided to add some music entertainment. And by some, I mean a hell of a lot of quality Australian bands:

And reading into it further, there's a 12 year old in me getting very, very excited. Boom Crash opera and 1927?! EEP! Let's get drunk, stuffed on quality seafood and rock out!

May 6, Caxton Street

You can get tickets from here for less than $30

A musical tribute to god

When I say god, it's obvious I mean the god of Australian music, Mr Nick Cave.

I'm pretty sure if there were some sort of statistics about the song most people commit suicide to in Australia, this would be number one. Heck, it even featured in He Died With A Felafel in His Hand as the suicide scene.

He's been one of our country's best performing artists for almost 40 years, across everything from his early post-punk music, his sad singer-songwriter stuff, his movies, his books and even some gospel and pop music. This man is good at everything he tries. Right now he's kicking ass with the garage rock band Grinderman.

It's good to see that I'm not the only person that thinks this, as Triple J are putting on a Nick Cave tribute concert to celebrate his career. The artists performing in the tribute includes:

Abbe May
Adalita
Alex Burnett (Sparkadia)
Ben Corbett (SixFtHick)
Bertie Blackman
Dan Sultan
Jake Stone (Bluejuice)
Johnny Mackay (Children Collide)
Kram (Spiderbait)
Lanie Lane
Lisa Mitchell
Muscles
Tim Rogers (You Am I)
Urthboy (The Herd)

I'd pay money to see a lot of those performs together, but with the musical catalogue that is Nick Cave's entire career? This will be one spectacular night.

November 20, the Tivoli.