run joe, run wrote:I'm not sure how interested anybody is about this, but I believe Bradley may like to know, if no one else: Midnight Oil are reforming for one date only. They play Sydney Cricket Ground on the 29th of January as part of a tsunami benefit gig.

I'm not bothered myself; just passing on the info. I expect it isn't much use to any American based fans, but you never know.

I appreciate the information. I would like to see this show.

Where's Sydney again?

benmichell wrote:what bands from new zealand besides the clean & the gordons/bailter space are any good?

Um....

The Bats
The Chills
Tall Dwarfs
Alastair Galbraith
JPS Experience

Do you want more?!?!?

Angry_Dragon wrote:

benmichell wrote:what bands from new zealand besides the clean & the gordons/bailter space are any good?

Um....

The Bats
The Chills
Tall Dwarfs
Alastair Galbraith
JPS Experience

Do you want more?!?!?

i don't need anymore......i was just seeing if you knew what you were talking about, you make some big claims with your very broad brush strokes......

but yes there are alot of good bands from NZ but to say that they are better than australian bands is just an opinion not based on anything more quantifiable than taste.

the bands from NZ these days are bit crap though. Flying Nun has been bought out by sony and alot of the NEWER bands are real disgusting in my opinion

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

run joe, run wrote:I'm not sure how interested anybody is about this, but I believe Bradley may like to know, if no one else: Midnight Oil are reforming for one date only. They play Sydney Cricket Ground on the 29th of January as part of a tsunami benefit gig.

I'm not bothered myself; just passing on the info. I expect it isn't much use to any American based fans, but you never know.

I appreciate the information. I would like to see this show.

Where's Sydney again?

bradley,
i don't know if you're just being sarcastic or what, but sydney is on the east coast of australia..........i live just near the sydney cricket ground where the oils are going to be playing.........maybe a two minute walk away.......if you wanna see it bad enough to come from chicago or wherever it is you are you could probably stay at my place.

LAD wrote:
For the earth? For miners? For the aboriginal peoples of Australia? That's so sweet.

i'd hate to seem pedantic or anything but Aboriginal is spelt at all times with a capital A. It is the name of a group of about 7,000 different nations that inhabited this fine land before white man and his diseases and greedy ways practically wiped them out.

benmichell wrote:

LAD wrote:
For the earth? For miners? For the aboriginal peoples of Australia? That's so sweet.

i'd hate to seem pedantic or anything but Aboriginal is spelt at all times with a capital A.

...and proper names and the personal pronoun, "I".



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kerble wrote:
i'd hate to seem pedantic or anything but Aboriginal is spelt at all times with a capital A.

...and proper names and the personal pronoun, "I".



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it's not an issue of grammar. it's an issue of the way the Aboriginal people choose to be represented if they are going to be all lumped in together. it is something that most people in australia don't know let alone the rest of the world.

benmichell wrote:what bands from new zealand besides the clean & the gordons/bailter space are any good?

The Dead C!!!

benmichell wrote:it is something that most people in australia don't know let alone the rest of the world.

Australia is a proper noun and starts with a capital 'A'...i find your commentary degrading to all the peoples of Australia, Aboriginal or otherwise and i think you owe like millions of people an apology...

benmichell wrote:

kerble wrote:

benmichell wrote:i'd hate to seem pedantic or anything but Aboriginal is spelt at all times with a capital A.

...and proper names and the personal pronoun, "I".



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it's not an issue of grammar. it's an issue of the way the Aboriginal people choose to be represented if they are going to be all lumped in together. it is something that most people in australia don't know let alone the rest of the world.

Thanks, doctor.