Friday, May 9, 2008

Whatever I have is yours and it's right here

So I didn't want to forget Sydney. If you know anyone from either Melbourne or Sydney you know they are in constant competition with each other. While Melbourne feels more organic, bike friendly, and small townish to Sydney's sophistication, tourist attractions, and more big cityness. Sydney was so jealous that Melbourne hosted the Olympics in 1956 that I believe the Opera House was built in response for tourist and cultural competition. Sydney was finally awarded the Olympics in 2000 and no longer feels inadequate to Melbourne. While Melbourne boasts a much larger of "good" bands we met up with some of Sydney's best Darren Hanlon and Sarah Blasko. We were shown the neighborhood of Petersham, backyard bbqs, chocolate bullets and the very popular board game World Domination created by the founder of Candle Records (RIP) , Crouchy. Darren also shared with us a Go Betweens tribute both he and Sarah had participated in that was released by the Triple J national radio station. We are such big fans of the Go-Betweens that it is hard to improve on perfection but we think these two covers are worthy of your ears. Here are two of the tracks off that release.

Darren Hanlon - "Right Here"

Sarah Blasko and Darren Hanlon - "Hold Your Horses"

1 comment:

DJ Talbot said...

Thanks for the tracks. I post a cover every Friday on my blog, and by coincidence it was a Go-Betweens cover by Ivy.