Heavenly Noise Awards (10/09/06, the Annandale)
"THE NOISIES" - SUNDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER
THE ANNANDALE HOTEL @ 4PM @ $10 tix still avail @ door
11 bands on 2 stages..over 6 hours of the best live local rock. Awards presentations were by MC Magdalena and live sets by...
SELF IS A SEED, THE SUITABLE FEW, SOMA, THE JEFFERSON, SYDONIA (mel), FIXATION, THE WHITE ROOM (mel), PAGE, REFLECTION POINT, THE BASTARD SQUAD [AMANDA RACHEL], THE PRESENCE
Awards included.
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Outstanding Band = SELF | IS A SEED
Outstanding Frontperson = Dave Bleus (Self | is a seed)
Outstanding Guitarist = "Joey" Joseph Tabua (Junto)
Outstanding Bass Player = ?
Outstanding Drummer = ?
Outstanding Vocalist = Kane Sarich (Junto)
Outsanding Album = MM9 Prosthetic Blvd
Outstanding EP = SELF | IS A SEED PERSPECTIVE
Outstanding Single = Sydonia
Outsanding Performance - Headline = ?
Outstanding Performance - Support = Simply Complicated doing Rage Against the Machine ?
Gig Of The Year = Junto at Bar Broadway on the 6th of May 2006 (one that i missed!)
Most Popular Personality = Magdalena!
Discovery Of The Year = ?
Oustanding New Band = Page ?
Inductees, Wall Of Fame = MM9
Rocker Of The Year = (Jason) Steadman
Best Non-Rock Act = THE SUITABLE FEW
i agree with some of those choices so much (especially Joey and Kane) that it's actually scary. You'd think i was on the Heavenly Noise committee! Obviously i don't need to be though, since others are making the right choices for me. i would've chosen Ben Ellingworth or Preston Peachey for the Outstanding Drummer award though.
Page seemed to me to be a combination of '70s rock (eg. Led Zeppelin) with '50s rock'n'roll and while i usually have quite a distaste for retro-rock bands, the combination of different time periods threw in enough semblance of originality to not particularly annoy me. In fact, since i had been listening to Little Richard earlier in the day, i quite enjoyed the energetic set from this young rockin' band.
http://www.pagetheband.com/
Believe any positive hype about The White Room, they're bloody good.
http://thewhiteroom.com.au
FIXATION
http://www.fixationsite.com
SYDONIA are cool. The Annandale really suited their sound. Big drums. Very epic. i'm still annoyed and the fact that an abreviation of their name would be "Syd." when they frickin' come from Melbourne! If they didn't want to spell it "Cydonia" (which seems is where the name comes from), there's other ways they could've spelled it. Good band though.
THE SUITABLE FEW opened their set with their rockiest of their songs, "Hesitance", which was still probably too hip hop for some but utterly enjoyable for many others. The song was started with a different intro and had other slight alterations from previous times been played. This was followed by "Faces" and "The Game of Life", also from the 2004 debut EP. Next came the defining element of The Suitable Few's live shows to make each and every one one unique, the topic jam. The topics thrown at the band from the audience this time were "Hair Wax", "Getting Drunk" and "Keys". As usual, the complete improvised raps on these topics were witty and humourous. As was the reaction to someone (who'd apparently read the set list) calling out "The Fringe of Society". To humourously spite this expectation and to do something different they played "The Team", which is traditionally their set closer. After this unprecedented act, The Suitable Few did indeed play The Fringe of Society, everyone favourite amusing satire of Emo-punk. Next (and final) track was "That Track", which featured a breakdown used to introduce the band (usually done during "The Team") and a dance off between MC's Adikkal and Balistik. Although slighly out of place at the rock orientated awards night, The Suitable Few garnered a good audience reaction and people seemed to really enjoy the set.
http://www.thesuitablefew.com
SELF | IS A SEED set list:COUNTER
COLLAPSE
SMOKE
ALPHA
PERSPECTIVE
VENT THROUGH A WALL
MORPHINE
http://www.selfband.com
http://www.myspace.com/heavenlynoise
http://www.bigbadnoise.info/
THE ANNANDALE HOTEL @ 4PM @ $10 tix still avail @ door
11 bands on 2 stages..over 6 hours of the best live local rock. Awards presentations were by MC Magdalena and live sets by...
SELF IS A SEED, THE SUITABLE FEW, SOMA, THE JEFFERSON, SYDONIA (mel), FIXATION, THE WHITE ROOM (mel), PAGE, REFLECTION POINT, THE BASTARD SQUAD [AMANDA RACHEL], THE PRESENCE
Awards included.
---------------
Outstanding Band = SELF | IS A SEED
Outstanding Frontperson = Dave Bleus (Self | is a seed)
Outstanding Guitarist = "Joey" Joseph Tabua (Junto)
Outstanding Bass Player = ?
Outstanding Drummer = ?
Outstanding Vocalist = Kane Sarich (Junto)
Outsanding Album = MM9 Prosthetic Blvd
Outstanding EP = SELF | IS A SEED PERSPECTIVE
Outstanding Single = Sydonia
Outsanding Performance - Headline = ?
Outstanding Performance - Support = Simply Complicated doing Rage Against the Machine ?
Gig Of The Year = Junto at Bar Broadway on the 6th of May 2006 (one that i missed!)
Most Popular Personality = Magdalena!
Discovery Of The Year = ?
Oustanding New Band = Page ?
Inductees, Wall Of Fame = MM9
Rocker Of The Year = (Jason) Steadman
Best Non-Rock Act = THE SUITABLE FEW
i agree with some of those choices so much (especially Joey and Kane) that it's actually scary. You'd think i was on the Heavenly Noise committee! Obviously i don't need to be though, since others are making the right choices for me. i would've chosen Ben Ellingworth or Preston Peachey for the Outstanding Drummer award though.
Page seemed to me to be a combination of '70s rock (eg. Led Zeppelin) with '50s rock'n'roll and while i usually have quite a distaste for retro-rock bands, the combination of different time periods threw in enough semblance of originality to not particularly annoy me. In fact, since i had been listening to Little Richard earlier in the day, i quite enjoyed the energetic set from this young rockin' band.
http://www.pagetheband.com/
Believe any positive hype about The White Room, they're bloody good.
http://thewhiteroom.com.au
FIXATION
http://www.fixationsite.com
SYDONIA are cool. The Annandale really suited their sound. Big drums. Very epic. i'm still annoyed and the fact that an abreviation of their name would be "Syd." when they frickin' come from Melbourne! If they didn't want to spell it "Cydonia" (which seems is where the name comes from), there's other ways they could've spelled it. Good band though.
THE SUITABLE FEW opened their set with their rockiest of their songs, "Hesitance", which was still probably too hip hop for some but utterly enjoyable for many others. The song was started with a different intro and had other slight alterations from previous times been played. This was followed by "Faces" and "The Game of Life", also from the 2004 debut EP. Next came the defining element of The Suitable Few's live shows to make each and every one one unique, the topic jam. The topics thrown at the band from the audience this time were "Hair Wax", "Getting Drunk" and "Keys". As usual, the complete improvised raps on these topics were witty and humourous. As was the reaction to someone (who'd apparently read the set list) calling out "The Fringe of Society". To humourously spite this expectation and to do something different they played "The Team", which is traditionally their set closer. After this unprecedented act, The Suitable Few did indeed play The Fringe of Society, everyone favourite amusing satire of Emo-punk. Next (and final) track was "That Track", which featured a breakdown used to introduce the band (usually done during "The Team") and a dance off between MC's Adikkal and Balistik. Although slighly out of place at the rock orientated awards night, The Suitable Few garnered a good audience reaction and people seemed to really enjoy the set.
http://www.thesuitablefew.com
SELF | IS A SEED set list:COUNTER
COLLAPSE
SMOKE
ALPHA
PERSPECTIVE
VENT THROUGH A WALL
MORPHINE
http://www.selfband.com
http://www.myspace.com/heavenlynoise
http://www.bigbadnoise.info/