Feigning Ease
I have been considering over the past weeks since i started writing onto this blog what the best course of action might be going forward. I read a lot of blogs and they all have a different approach to what they’re doing in what can be loosely termed musical journalism. As such I figured that it would be prudent if i set myself at least some sort of goal to which i can work within my writing. So, if you are a reader of this blog, here is what i am going to do.
Following the model set by FBi radio station in Sydney i am going to endeavor to focus on local music. I am going to shoot for four reviews per week of those four, one will be of a Sydney band, one of a band from greater Australia and two will be looking at international bands. Of the two international bands i look into i want to write on one 2009 album every week, leaving one review per week for me to write on whatever i want. At the moment i want also to focus on photography here, and so sundry to my four reviews a week i will be doing live reviews of most of the shows i go too and looking at photographers and artists that i admire, as well as taking some time to post some of my own work.
This seems onerous, but now at least we all know what to expect.
As a little bit of extra information, this blog is named after two particular tracks. Progress is a song which originally appeared on Pedro The Lion’s Progress EP under the title April 6, 2039 in 2000 and then later on their their LP Control in 2001. The other is Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin’s Half Awake (Deb) which comes from the b-side their 2008 It’s Not Worth Fighting 7” single. Both these bands i have a great love for, and they each somehow sum up the way i feel about music. That visceral connection.
Carry on.
