April 2011
1 post
R.R.I.P
This is kinda hard to say, but anyway here goes: after eight immensely fun years of playing together as Red Riders it seems like now’s the right time to bow out. We’re all still the closest of friends, but just feel like the entity that is Red Riders has run its course, and rather than grind something that’s special to us into the ground, we’d like to call it quits while we...
October 2010
1 post
June 2010
1 post
The Arts.
Woah. Five months since my last post? Geez. LAYYYYY-ZEEEE!
Oh well just thought I’d put up these pictures that my friend Will took of me hanging out in the retro-future (they’re not so warped in reality):
Will’s a bit of a genius. So in good news, he’s having his first solo exhibition, Stealing The Setlist at Mart Gallery in Surry Hills. It opens on July 22 and...
January 2010
1 post
Albums That Took Me By Surprise in 2009.
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Not so surprising musically. In that regard it’s right up my alley: fuzzy, speaker bleeding guitars chugging through power-pop songs, while some dude in a cardigan sings about doing it in a library. That’s pretty much all of my boxes ticked right there. The thing that surprised me though is that I couldn’t stop...
December 2009
1 post
Popularity Contests.
I have always tried to avoid them in life, but there’s something about this one that just sucks me in every time. Stupid ego. So if you feel like giving a brother a hand and voting for our song ‘Ordinary’ in The Hottest 100, that’d be downright dandy of you and my gratitude would be never ending, like a snake eating its own tail or some junk. Seriously.
November 2009
5 posts
More Things I've Learnt On The Drown In Colour...
14 more things I’ve learnt on the Drown In Colour tour…
1. Sometimes people dressed up as cats end up looking more like rabbits.
2. A guy checking into a hotel at 4am with a leggy brunette isn’t always as suspect as it seems.
3. “I wish I had a suntan! I wish I had a pizza and a bottle of wine!…”
4. NVRLND FRVR.
5. Everyone on the Gold Coast is either buff,...
Some Snaps Will Took... →
…of us doing a semi-acoustic show for FBi.
Things I've Learnt On The Drown In Colour Tour
Ten things I’ve learnt on the Drown In Colour tour…
1. The Manly Fisho’s meat raffle is rigged. Heaps.
2. Tim Rogers is THE Australian music icon of the last 20 years.
3. Everyone in Cronulla is either really tanned, buff and/or (mostly) both.
4. Don’t give Brad the car keys.
5. The Last Dinosaurs have a Phoenix-ey thing going on at the moment that’s pretty ace.
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Befriend Our Friend.
Our friend Angele just moved here from The Big Apple and is looking for some new friends. She’s into McSweeney’s, Wolphin, the internet in general and the band Girls. You should add her on Facebook. A friend of ours is a friend of yours. Here’s a picture of her:
We Have A Wiener!!
So, I dunno if you were aware, but we were running a competition through Faster Louder to design us a new t-shirt for our upcoming Drown In Colour tour. And now there’s a winner! So if you wanna see who it is and check out some of the runners up as well, go here.
October 2009
4 posts
August 2009
7 posts
Bloody Surfers.
Surprisingly not a post about Brad injuring himself. Instead it’s a post about this band my friend Greg told me about that I can’t stop listening to at the moment called Surfer Blood. Especially their song ‘Harmonix’. It’s all kinds of ace. And sounds just like I feel at the moment.
Greatest Guy On Earth?
Seriously, read this and tell me that a) you weren’t inspired and b) Dave Eggers is not one of the greatest guys on earth. You can’t. He might even be better than my brother-in-law Stu.
O.V.P
Maybe I should rename this thing, Red Riders - Online Vanity Pile.
July 2009
3 posts
Circle Pit.
My friend Ange burnt me her band Circle Pit’s album and I seriously have not been able to stop listening to it. Every song is great. My favourite parts are when she just jumps on the wah and starts wailing over the top of everything. She’s a guitar hero. As soon as you get a chance to hear it you really should. (Q: Great line? A: “I don’t want my father to give me away, but...
