On Saturday the 3rd of June I watched one of my favourite bands perform for a recording at Foxtel for CD:Live, End Of Fashion from Perth, Australia. I knew about this all thanks to the band posting up a bulletin on myspace.com, for the chance to win exclusive tickets to the performance! I brought my cousin Cecile who is also into the band along for the show.
With all the cuts and retakes that television is filled with, End of Fashion did manage to keep their cool and performed brilliantly playing two songs; their latest single release 'The Game' and their first release 'Oh Yeah'. It was their catchy tunes and high energy performance which kept us buzzing with excitement.
It was hard to believe I was one of about 40 people to watch them perform and be interviewed only an arms-length away from them, it was very surreal. Before their interview which was on a massive pink u-shaped couch, I had a small chat to Rodney (back up vocalist and guitarist) after he asked if anyone wanted to take his place. He said that they always get asked the same questions which I could imagine would get predictable after a while and maybe too boring.
After the props and dress department gave up dressing them in gay Portman's accessories clothing, the interview started with Tom (the drummer) wrapping a scarf around the presenter's head, which was a better result. :)
End of Fashion were asked about fashion trends and whether they'd sported the look; like parachute pants, mullets, undercuts which some of the guys openly admitted to having in the past and ones which they still have. Rodney currently sports the mullet look but it looks cool and not like some of the tragic ones I see when I go further west in metro Sydney.
Justin (lead singer and guitarist) spoke about their 'shocking' experience when they played at SxSW in the USA where electric shocks kept coming out from the microphones. It sounded like hell yet funny at the same time. I think 67 Special's lead singer, Ash had a similar electrifying experience back here in Australia but he ended up in RPA hospital in Melbourne.
We also saw Kid Confuscious perform and be interviewed at Foxtel later that day. I'd heard of them before but wasn't familiar with their music. I quite liked their funky and soulful sound. They're going to be releasing an album soon but the title is not confirmed so the audience was asked for any suggestions. I got to say my corny suggestion of 'Confuscious says' although we were preped before hand when the producer asked if any of us had any funny titles for the album (mine was one of three that she picked for us to yell out). So that was my airplay plug. :)
So all this finished at about 7pm and we went off to top the night off at my brother Henry's (affectionately known by many as Hank) Dirty 30th at the Alfred Hotel in Camperdown. Happy Birthday Hank! We hope you had a great night/morning, cos we did!
With all the cuts and retakes that television is filled with, End of Fashion did manage to keep their cool and performed brilliantly playing two songs; their latest single release 'The Game' and their first release 'Oh Yeah'. It was their catchy tunes and high energy performance which kept us buzzing with excitement.
It was hard to believe I was one of about 40 people to watch them perform and be interviewed only an arms-length away from them, it was very surreal. Before their interview which was on a massive pink u-shaped couch, I had a small chat to Rodney (back up vocalist and guitarist) after he asked if anyone wanted to take his place. He said that they always get asked the same questions which I could imagine would get predictable after a while and maybe too boring.
After the props and dress department gave up dressing them in gay Portman's accessories clothing, the interview started with Tom (the drummer) wrapping a scarf around the presenter's head, which was a better result. :)
End of Fashion were asked about fashion trends and whether they'd sported the look; like parachute pants, mullets, undercuts which some of the guys openly admitted to having in the past and ones which they still have. Rodney currently sports the mullet look but it looks cool and not like some of the tragic ones I see when I go further west in metro Sydney.
Justin (lead singer and guitarist) spoke about their 'shocking' experience when they played at SxSW in the USA where electric shocks kept coming out from the microphones. It sounded like hell yet funny at the same time. I think 67 Special's lead singer, Ash had a similar electrifying experience back here in Australia but he ended up in RPA hospital in Melbourne.
We also saw Kid Confuscious perform and be interviewed at Foxtel later that day. I'd heard of them before but wasn't familiar with their music. I quite liked their funky and soulful sound. They're going to be releasing an album soon but the title is not confirmed so the audience was asked for any suggestions. I got to say my corny suggestion of 'Confuscious says' although we were preped before hand when the producer asked if any of us had any funny titles for the album (mine was one of three that she picked for us to yell out). So that was my airplay plug. :)
So all this finished at about 7pm and we went off to top the night off at my brother Henry's (affectionately known by many as Hank) Dirty 30th at the Alfred Hotel in Camperdown. Happy Birthday Hank! We hope you had a great night/morning, cos we did!
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