It's Midnight in Sydney
On a Wednesday night/Thursday morning.
Just got home from Joe Pug and Chris Altmann. (Look 'em up on eMu) Joe Pug is from Chicago I found him originally somehow on eMusic. There's only an EP available on eMu in my region so I downloaded that first and then later his full album Messenger from iTunes.
Chris Altmann is from Melbourne, Australia - I only know his name cos I got an email from a promoter telling me Joe Pug was coming out and Chris was opening for him. Never heard of him. FIrst thing, I look up Chris Altmann on eMusic. His 2010 album Que Paso is there. I have a quick listen to the samples, then download. I love it. It's 70s flavoured country-rock but done without obvious pastiche or irony, just great music done greatly. Becomes one of my favourite albums of this year. If his album was not on eMusic, maybe I wander off and never hear it. maybe I listen to the samples and decide AUD $17 on Australian iTunes is too much to bother.
Saw them both tonight -- fucking brilliant (will be posting YouTubes later). In the encore, I requested Bury Me Far From My Uniform from Joe Pug, he played it, and he only did one song in the encore. There were literally only 30 (thirty) people there which is a fucking embarrassment to our nation, but Joe was so gracious and didn't pull back a degree in his performance.
The promoter gave away two free tickets to me so I took some friends who on top of, with me, spent a metric shitload on alcohol, bought records at the merch desk. As I predicted, cos on those free tickets I deliberately brought the people I knew were most likely to shovel money back to the artists I love.
So anyway, just one of the many ways artists I have found through eMusic have fanned out to create experiences.
Just got home from Joe Pug and Chris Altmann. (Look 'em up on eMu) Joe Pug is from Chicago I found him originally somehow on eMusic. There's only an EP available on eMu in my region so I downloaded that first and then later his full album Messenger from iTunes.
Chris Altmann is from Melbourne, Australia - I only know his name cos I got an email from a promoter telling me Joe Pug was coming out and Chris was opening for him. Never heard of him. FIrst thing, I look up Chris Altmann on eMusic. His 2010 album Que Paso is there. I have a quick listen to the samples, then download. I love it. It's 70s flavoured country-rock but done without obvious pastiche or irony, just great music done greatly. Becomes one of my favourite albums of this year. If his album was not on eMusic, maybe I wander off and never hear it. maybe I listen to the samples and decide AUD $17 on Australian iTunes is too much to bother.
Saw them both tonight -- fucking brilliant (will be posting YouTubes later). In the encore, I requested Bury Me Far From My Uniform from Joe Pug, he played it, and he only did one song in the encore. There were literally only 30 (thirty) people there which is a fucking embarrassment to our nation, but Joe was so gracious and didn't pull back a degree in his performance.
The promoter gave away two free tickets to me so I took some friends who on top of, with me, spent a metric shitload on alcohol, bought records at the merch desk. As I predicted, cos on those free tickets I deliberately brought the people I knew were most likely to shovel money back to the artists I love.
So anyway, just one of the many ways artists I have found through eMusic have fanned out to create experiences.
Comments
for good or bad, i'm done with emusic so will have to find an alternate source to sample the artists you rec'd. do you have an 8track up of either???
thankee
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I'll do an 8track tonight, good idea brittleblood! Actually Joe Pug gives away his music free if you ask him and give it to friends:
http://www.joepugmusic.com/2010/08/free-joe-pug-cds/
he's a cool dude like that.
And oh my look at all my swearing. Occupational hazard of posting drunk at midnight. I regret nothing.