Tame Impala (pictured) scooped the pool at the recent WAMI Awards, taking home Most Popular Act, Most Popular Live Act, Best Rock Act and Best Guitarist (Kevin Parker), with Split Seconds taking home Favourite Newcomer, Most Promising New Act, Best Indie Pop Act and Best Male Vocalist (Sean Pollard). Meanwhile the APRA Award nominations are out with John Butler swagging five nominations, Birds Of Tokyo have four, and Powderfinger, Kasey Chambers and Jet have two apiece. Winners will be announced. . .
Bruce Milne, the happy chappy that use to serve me at Missing Link records and later started Au-Go-Go Records says “For a while there, La Femme were probably the most popular punk band in Melbourne.” Singer Chane Chane and his group were real punks. Tough western suburb kids more heavy metal than arty farty. Nonetheless they fitted in with Nick Cave’s Boys Next Door, The Models and the rest of the Crystal Ballroom/St Kilda crowd. Ironically I think their best song is called “Boys Next Door”. After their self titled album they petered out with a single on The Space Label called “Looking For A Laugh”/”No One Talks”. I would love to hear it, if anyone has a copy?
Pacific nations keen to house detainees
Some South Pacific nations are appealing to the Australian government to be part of a new Pacific solution for processing asylum seekers.
